15 MAY 1909, Page 19

A CORRECTION.

[To Tan EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOtt."]

it not strange that in your quotation in your last issue of Mrs. Steel's letter from the Times you follow the Times in printing "Rurana" instead of "Purana " P Is it worth while to point out that the passage is translated in M. Williams's " Indian Wisdom," published in 1876, p. 500, who tells us on p. 493 that " the oldest" Pursue " we possess can scarcely date from a period more remote than the sixth or seventh century of our era."—I