15 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 20

What would Asoka have written for the Daily News had

he been able to print his words instead of carving them on stone 7 Mr. Radhaktunud Mookerji in his Asoka (Macmillan, 21s.) gives us a capital account of all that research has discovered and scholarship interpreted regarding that excellent Emperor, who began by being a warrior and ended by being a vegetarian and a pacifist. Kindness to animals was one of his great

enthusiasms, and he gave a great popular impetus to Buddhism.