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of calculation P M. Garrez, on the contrary, BUDDHA AND EARLY BUDDHISM, by Arthur Lillie (late
Regiment of Lucknow), with numerous illustrations admits a very close relation between the Mahl
drawn on wood by the Author. London: Trübner råshţrt and the Marathi, and his views in this & Co. respect, expressed some years ago, have been Of the many works that have of late years generally approved, on several occasions parti- appeared on Buddha and Buddhism, this volume cularly by M. Weber. This only shows that by Mr. Lillie must hold a place by itself as one there is still a great deal of uncertainty in all of the most remarkable jumbles of inaccurate this, and that in rendering homage to the vast information, misunderstood quotations, misrepreknowledge and ability with which Dr. Hoernle has sentations, unfounded assertions, and nonsense, constructed this linguistic history of India, it is that has issued from the press. If Mr. Fergusson necessary to temper here and there, with some remarks that a particular Buddhist Chaitya cave doubt, the apparent rigour of his demonstrations. "resembles" to some extent an early Chris
An alphabetical index completes the volume, tian church-pointing out the differences, Mr. which facilitates reference. The correction of Lillie retails it in the form that it is Mr. F.'s the press which in a work like this) is peculiarly "deliberate opinion that the various details of difficult, is irreproachable. At least I have only the early Christian basilica, nave, aiale, columns, found quite an insignificant number of errata semi-domed apse, cruciform ground-plan (!), that have escaped the list; for example, p. 6, line &c. were borrowed en bloc from the Buddhists" 8, virama in amrita; p. 35, line 4, infra, dh instead (p. 183). In St. Paul's plain statements in Coof gh; in the following line, saṁhah ought to be lossians, I, 23, 26) he says Paul "asserts that many marked with an asterisk; p. 126, line 22, ought to years before our gospels were known, he was read indrant.
the minister of a gospel that had been already This article was nearly finished when Dr. preached to every creature under heaven" (p. 218), Hoernle's Grammar was honoured with the Volney Buddhism of course! Need we say that a writer prize by the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles- like this believes that Woden was Buddha; that Lettres. After such judgement mine is of no Fu-sang of the Chinese is really America, in spite value. I am not less happy to be able to congra- of all evidence to the contrary, and hence that the tulate the author on having obtained this high American aborigines--at least in Mexico were distinction for a work of which I think so highly. Buddhists; that the Essenes were Buddhists;
A. BARTH. that the Therapeutes were Buddhists; and that
the Templars, the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, &c. UNEXPLORED BALOCHISTAN: A Survey of a Route -were all of Buddhist origin. The sculptures through Mekran, Bashakard, Persia, Kurdistan, and
in the catacombs, too, are Buddhist ! But the Turkey. By Ernest A. Floyer. 8vo. Griffith and Farran, 1882.
Buddhist books, according to Mr. Lillie, quite Mr. Floyer was for many years employed in the misrepresent Buddha ;-he could not have made Indo-European Telegraph Service on the Coast of many converts openly-" his weapon was sePersia and Mekran, and having availed himself of crecy":"the tomb and its o'ershadowing tree, his leave to make excursions from Jask into the cave, the mountain, the desert, this was West Mekran, the Persian Gulf, Bashakard, and the apparatus that the reformer found ready at through Southern Persia, he has given a most hand," and then he proceeds to jumble up the vividly written account of his different journeys in Triad Society, the rites of Freemasonry, Braha volume of more than 500 pages, illustrated by a manical ceremonies, Egyptian mysteries, Gnostic dozen sketches, &c., and a good map, and supple- superstitions, and Buddhist ritual, in a way conmented by meteorological, linguistic, geographical, fusing enough to turn an ordinary brain. botanical, and other appendices of interest. The As one goes on, however, the wonder at the author is evidently a good linguist, with a fair author's misapprehension diminishes,- for when knowledge of natural history and an accurate we come to his chapters on Judaism and Chris observer.
tianity, we find a display of the most crass The narrative of the journeys is excellently told,
ignorance of both. Truly a little knowledge is a and abounds in amusing incident as well as in dangerous thing,' when it leads a man to writing valuable geographical and ethnographic infor.
books to display his ignorance. The woodcuts mation. The spelling of proper names is generally are not badly executed, only, like the letterpress, correct, though there are a few inconsistencies, they sometimes misrepresent the originale : who as Eeliaut (p. 91) and Iliaut (246) for Ilidt, and ever saw Buddha with both his hands wrapped three or four others. It is to be regretted that up, as on the frontispiece, or Prajna Paramita guch a book should be issued without an index. represented as a Roman girl, as on p. 226 P
• Translated from the Revue Critique, 81 Juillet, 1882
