27 MARCH 1926, Page 34

We have received the first volume of Further Dialogues of

the Buddha, translated from the Pali of Majjhima Niyaka' We have received the first volume of Further Dialogues of the Buddha, translated from the Pali of Majjhima Niyaka'

by. Lord Chalmers (Oxford University Press, 12s. 6d.). This is a hard book for the average reader, for its comprehension demands some knowledge of Vedic tradition : it cannot be reviewed in a casual paragraph, nor perhaps is its subject matter such as to interest more than the number of European students (how many there are we do not know) who find in Gotama the Buddha " a being without delusions who appeared in the world for the welfare and good of many."