"NAVIES AND NaviOns."—By Hector Bywater. Lonon, Constable, Price, 32 shi net Except that it states clearly andi ery fully the difficulties which lie] immediately ahead of them, this! atest book of Mr. Bywater's is un-Tikely to be helpful to the experts who are assembled at Geneva for the Aiseassion of the vexed question of and things Chinese in general. The translator, Ars. Bugge, too, deserves: much pra rich history of Buddhism in China and one can hardly fail to see why' the thoughtful Buddhist finds Bud-Jahism incomparable in its philosophy. We find illuminating interpretations of everyday matters, temples, idols. names and phrases, the real significance of which is so often hidden beneath the squalor and neglect which spring from pitiful poverty, and gross superstitions, The work ins none of that dry wearying in Titerature of this kind. It is really vesting reading,.and it helps to point a way through the tangled con-
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