7 JUNE 1930, Page 19

Captain Ellam, as a . practising Buddhist, is well qualified to

tell the world of that great religion which was founded in India but was driven thence by the Hindu priesthood to flourish in China, Japan, Burma, Siam, Tibet, and Ceylon. His small volume Navayana Buddhitm and Modern Thought (Rider, 8s. 6d.) is very well suited to its subject (Navayana means "new vehicle "), but the author might have spared us unnecessary and um-Buddhistic comparisons with other religions, and perhaps his conspectus of modern scientific discoveries might be shortened or repolished. But as an introduction to Southern Buddhism we believe that no short book has achieved so much, in so clear and sympathetic a

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