Chapter LI deals with one's own religious experience and emphasizes the personality of prayer and the experienced companionship of the sustaining power of God. It points out the fundamental agreement of religious experience by men in all ages in saintliness rather than doctrine. He contrasts the records of science and the records of religion. The science of 1,000 years ago today is. ludicrous, and even of 100 years ago is today regarded as quaint, whereas religious experience speaks to one and another across chasms without difficulty. He points out that as a result of religious experience unworthiness is followed by creative moral reality, how lives and characters are completely changed, e.g. St. Paul.
In Chapter III the author points out the argument against the universal experience of God by all, and gives sound reasons for so doing. Some arguments are that God must be imaginary because he is not known by any of our senses: if men have known God, why cannot men tell us in plain language what He is like, as they would describe a tree? There seems to be a fear of colouring our testimony by our desires. Man connects his religion in every generation, not with what he wants, but with his conception of what he ought to be and do.
A Sign Required Art dravidian. Giva dansant (Collec tion Č. T. Loo.) each chapter to be really conversant with his matter. I think that the chapters on the Mohammedan and the expansion of the Indian arts are especially enlightening and new.
The printing is exceedingly clear and the reproductions are of the highest standard, A quite complete "index" helps the reader to go through these 496 pages quickly.
The content of the book is so great that it is impossible to give here a detailed analysis. I can only say that this book should be present in every library dedicated to the arts. Every person in the Far East who wants to get acquainted with Oriental artistic history will find this book a most instructive companion and guide for his future researches—r.cr.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.