Txoucu very few of us would probably read Mr. Casaubon's "Key to all Mythologies," should it ever sec the light, there is to the most careless an undying and vivid interest in the subject on which that erudite and erroneous pedant employed himself, The carly beliefs of mankind are so mysteriously connected the one with the other, that we are perpetually surprised with strange analogies. The Legend of St. George has an Egyptian origin, if we may, believe Mr. Baring Gould; and indeed the chief myths of the Middle Ages are to be traced to the Far East. The fantastic way in which the history of man's strivings after Knowledge and Light has been allegorized in early times by many nations we know, but perhaps the Chinese have represented this tale of repeatedly baffled endeavour under the strangest and most grotesque H. E. Woodhouse, in this Month's Fraser, has given us an abridgement of the Legend of the Monkey, which is one of the most remarkable allegories in the world. 'To quote the translator's learned note "The interest of the Legend lies in the fact that to its circulation is ascribed the deification of the Monkey under the title of 'Tsai Tin Tai Shin.': "The Great Spirit equal with Heaven." This, however, was not its primary intention; the story in the original is purely alletorical, and, by most commentators, the Monkey is taken to be a personification of the mind of man. A credulous people, however, accepted the tales as
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