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Wo most contees to laying down this book with a feeling of complete bewilderment, not altogether unpleasing, bat aspect to be dealt with in the volume is that of "The Desire of all nations, as proved from the records on the suo-Gried bricks of Babylonia, the papyri and pyramids of Egypt, the frescoes of the an Catacombs and on the Chinese incited Memorial Stone at Cho'ang." But when the reader would expect to find in s preface a more intimate expo: ition of the autho pose as a help to intelligent readin, is planged at once in medias rea, with little beyond a statement to the effect that the writer knows " practically little of Baddbism," bat has a most earnest desire to learn more sbout it and "feels sare that the trae spiritual link between Bodd!
Teachings and those Bible mast most certainly as yet, it seems impossible to trace the exact historical link." From that point we are hurried on through stopendons conglomeration of the most diversified facta, inferences and quote-'The industry and reading dis-io the work are as remarkable as absence of methods and, jor part, of a Nearly every sentence is paragraph, sod the point that to be made is sometimes met with many pages after the exordiam. One instance will explain our meaning. On page 102 we read "Te is with groat joy that I here record what I believe to be a wooderfol diseovery—one which I have long felt must eventually be made, bat am now quite convinced through the transla tions of the inscriptions on the plan of the famous Shinto Temple of Sannd which is officially styled ind of postecrip us er to page 103 and the qaotetion ends as follows itself is Hieda, Sun-Branch Braoch of the Sun, because its light was kindled at the San.
The God therein enshrined in groat Spirit'.
(The writer continues
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