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The Book of the Simple Way (Philip Welby, 3s. 6d.

net) is a new translation from the text of Laotze's great book, with intro- duction and commentary by Walter Gorn Old. Laotze, whose work may be described as a treatise on Toxvrach, in the wide Aristotelian sense, combined with theology, died some time towards the end of the sixth century B.C.