20 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 39

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The Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies (Luzac, 6s.) not exactly light reading, but it is a joy to Orientalists, d the general reader would obtain some curious tit-bits information from the number just issued : for instance, is a tribe in Malaya called Orang Utan. A reviewer utes M. Louis de la Vallee Poussin's view of Nirvana being bonheur supreme en dehors de toute idee d'aniantisse- t. Whatever scholars or Mr. Sterbatsky may say, that exactly what the Vedantists teach in India to-day ; surely ev ought to know. Buddha took his philosophy from them.