23 MAY 1896, page 16

Studies In Monasticism.*

SOME of the most interesting and important historical aspects' of monasticism are treated in works lately written by Miss Lina Eckenstein and Mr. Thomas W. Allies. The period......

Books.

THE INNER LIFE OF JAPAN.* IT is with no little pleasure that we welcome Mr. Hearn's new volume of Japanese studies. In his former work he showed an extraordinary power of......