Karma Story of Buddhist Ethics

Author(s): Paul Carus
Publisher: Chicago Open Court Publishing Company

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Publications on Oriental Topics,
sufficient acquaintance with the Chinese language to translate, under the conditions named, a book like that of Lao-Tze is a gigantic one. Dr. Carus's success is little short of marvellous. He frequently cites the versions of others, none of which happens to be at hand for comparison, but in the extracts given it seems clear that Dr. Carus has succeeded better than Dr. Legge or Dr. Chalmers in the passages where we are able to compare them,-a very remarkable fact, indeed."-North China Daily News.
Tan Tek Soon, a native Chinese scholar of the Straits Settlement, Singapore, writes:
"I have read the introductory portion with great interest, and must heartily congratulate you upon the accuracy and lucidity of your rendering of a rather obscure work, even to Chinese scholars. In my opinion it is a marvel of literary assiduity and application on a par with Stanislas Julien's Life of Hiuen. Tsang, and I am sure it will be as greatly appreciated by scholars."
PROF. S. WATASÉ, a native Japanese scientist, formerly of the University of Chicago, writes :
"I thank you heartily for your kindness in sending me a copy of your fine translation and critical exposition of Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King. It was years ago that I read it. Your publication of the Chinese text will be highly appreciated by all who want to make a study of the philosopher. As I read the text and then the translation, I am astonished how well you kept the original terseness and severe brevity in English. It gives me a certain fascination to read the old philosopher through two such divergent media as Chinese and English."