1 APRIL 1922, Page 22

Asian Cristology and the Mahayana. By E. A. Gordon. (Tokyo

: Maruzen and Co. ; and Edinburgh : Grant.)—Mrs. Gordon has reprinted the Indian Church History of Thomas Yeates (1818) and appended an elaborate commentary, twice the length of the text, with many illustrations. Her object is to emphasize the profound influence which, she thinks, St. Thomas, whom tradition regards as the Apostle of the Indies, exercised on the religions of the Far East. The parallels between Christianity and Buddhism are curiously interesting, as Mrs. Gordon shows, but the direct connexion between the religions is, of course, a matter of conjecture. Mrs. Gordon's speculations are based largely on her studies in Chinese and Japanese archaeology.