For Bengalis, the songs' appeal, stemming from the combination of emotive strength and beauty described as surpassing even Tagore's poetry, was such that the "Modern Review" observed that "is in Bengal no cultured home where Rabindranath's songs are not sung or at least attempted to be sung ... Even illiterate villagers sing his songs". A. H. Fox Strangways of "The Observer" introduced non-Bengalis to "rabindrasangit" in "The Music of Hindostan", calling it a "vehicle of a personality ... [that go behind this or that system of music to that beauty of sound which all systems put out their hands to seize."