One of the interesting features of the book is the manner in which the principal attacks on Judaism have been dealt with. There is the ancient standby that the Old Testament is no longer the standard adopted by Jews in their dealings with their Gentile fellow citizens or among themselves. Instead it is said that the Talmud is the code by which Jews live, and this book is given a mysterious importance end held out as a secret code inculcating not only p hatred of non-Jews but a standard of morality according as to whether Sew or. Christian is to be dealt with. The Telmud is 'a record in Hebrew and Aramaic of what was taught and spoken in the Schools in Among the contributors to Mr. Dwight Goddard's Buddhist Bible is the Venerable Chao Kung (Trebitch Lincoln) to whom the author is indebted for his kind permission to use the translation of the 118th Discourse from the collection of the Middle Discourses.
Among some of the other selections included in the Buddhist Bible are, "The Life of the Historic Buddha, the late P. Laksheni Narasu; Word of Buddha,". by the Venerable Bhikkhu Nyanatilaka, the German Abbot of a large colony at Dodanduwa, Ceylon; "The Tevigga Sutra," translated by T. W. Rhys Davids; "The Swiangama Sutra," translated, by Bhukshu Wai-tao and Dwight!
A Persian Martyr Tanmm THe Pure Irán's Greatest Woman.
By Martha L. Root. Illustrated Baha'i Publishing Committee, New York.
Were this book written primarily to} show the life and influence of a nineteenth-century Persian woman who suffered martyrdom in her attempt to emancipate women, it would have resulted in a unique contribution to oriental biography. However the author's interest in her subject, Hadrat-i-Téhirih, Her Highness the Pure One, has been secondary to her interes: in the promotion of the Baha'i faith. The reviewer does not take exception to the purpose of the book as conceived by the author. He merely states that the ostensible purpose of the book seems to be of secondary concern.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.