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The Inst volume of Father Doré's researches into Chinese superstitions has recently come from the Tou-sdwel Pross and the completion of this masterly work is hailed with pleasure. As announced in the preface to the frst volume, published in 1911, (Varigté Sinologique No, 32," the author had in view, first, to make Known by pictures the stiperstitious practices which, during more than twenty: years, had come under his observation; secondly, to present avi Mlustrated monograph on the prin. cipal gods, Buddhas, Bodhisatvas Buddhist and Taoist personages who constitute the Chinese Pantheon: thirdly, to explain, according to Chinese books and pictures, the lives of Confucius, Sakyamunt "and Lao-tse, and to give an account, sume lent for the general reader, of" the doctrines ud practices of the "three religions."
Though the task was very extensive, It was. performed thoroughly. When the author was called to God in 1081 after the appearance of the fifteenth volume, he fett in completed manuscript the last three volumes, 20 that it has been relatively easy for the Bureau Sinologique. to carry the whole publication to. completion.
[Barcelona os on organizer for the! 'Third International. "Lord JArabla" by. H.C. Armstrong, is another of the series, being an intimate study of Thu Soud. Soldiers' Pay," by William Faulkner, although Jnot'a war book, tolls the story of the return of some American soldiers to their home town. And for detec-five story lovers is "It Walks Night" by John Dickson Carr, "Germany "Puts the Clock Back" gives fan account of Herr Hitler's "rise to power and of the Nationale Socialist ideology, Its author, Edgar Mowrer, at the time of its writing Berlin correspondent of the "Chi cage Daily News," after its publica tion had to leave Germany in spite! Jof a strong unanimous protest from [the members of the Berlin Foreign [Press Association, of which he was president. That was in 1939, and for this Penguin edition the author has added a new. chapter on the situation to-day. The book was re~ viewed in these columns in 1993, the reviewer's opinion being that it [was "an admirable book which is Jot real value provided it be read with a discriminating eye on the course of events as they are now evolving themselves in Germany." These little reprints of well-known [books make a wonderful opportunity for collecting a readable library in small space.
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