Ars. Florence Ayscough in her recent book "Chinese Women. Yesterday: and Today" writes: of Ching 1 med at the 1 doubt she says, her Store of And among the list of women war iors Uhrough the ages Mrs, Ayscough has placed Hsieh Pingying." worth to stand beside the famous Mu-lan he. worl Miss Hsieh in her own writings shows saldirs nat in the Sd hi "ihe present Signideance. at devotion of fist Alli herself not only. the wan or, but the pioneer, the ardent vevolutionist for social als well ax political change=
In the case of Miss Hsieh the spirit of rebellion one on into. pos action. When th began she' came front whom she ad raised, ends November. he present war corps of itis The war diary wa7, with her movement from, Soochow to, Chank-find Hankow.
Reces ly nak schools, thas, bee preparing Meat No Deterrent The first section of the book, the autobiography, deals with Miss Hisich's home life, schooling it first exper nee of ain independent Then there is a breaking. the story.
In the. several years which follow the 1927 and 1928 experiences, Hisich went to Japan for x visit and attended college there.
She was Arrested and put in prison, where she met and talked with" "Japanese radicals.
The foreword to the new diary which forms the second part of the book is written a Chinese colleagiwe who became her hur This ites under the ime of Welteh Werther), had Basis of Asiatic Mysticism tism isthe traditional aspect fof the Youn doctrine ox adapted for the present. time, Mr, J. Marque, Rividve in. his "Tantrike Yora: Mindy Tibetan" (Rider, London. 6/- Translated by H. B. Kennedy, BA)
ates that the science of Yow, "the Knowledge of the centres of humet force, leading to the mystic realiza the Supreme Identity, pro= coeds. from 9. empirical, quite experimental idea in Hindu ascetic ism" Yoga teaches that the great spiritual currents are universal, and that man can be liberated and detached from his own acts.
Although the author has reserved for a fulure work a complete and precise description of the. physical exercises of Yaru. he oes include in this small treatise a few Youa pos lures' which, Westerners can, practise The simplest postures deishiht, fig of the ate on the end of the nose; Bht dvishthi, fixing of the atten~ ion on the space between the eyebrows; and. Udhdhiviyana-Band fin exercise of the diaphragm the Lotus pose and the Death, Besides physical methods the yon has ment it thods of meditation. "Che You! works on the sympathetic nervan= system and "his. sole method hei: mental one.
Young Translators Marvel Way to New Automatisms nis translation the work of the of Dr. Lin The author the view that basis) of all it, Adet and Auer. Dr. Lin hhimseIF edited the book, and the work was completed just before the Lin returned to China. There doubt bit that these two daughters more tittle A Te draws illustrations from "Taoist texts, Japa.
ition of the Shingon and schools, and the Tibetan of meditation, fauher in them, sensitive author olds that who ix now to "the wish Old Style" ballads" (Benn, London, of rhymes and stories roughly.
1 amer tine Het inspired 1 ist be inhered that Me. Servi id one of the ular poets of the 1914.
war, and his poems of that were published under the title "Riymes of a Red Cross Mau."
This new book has an extensive collection of stories which would doubtedly be appreciated in the read continual surprise of Robert Service will be to find him quite in his old style spirit in this book=-Rabe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.