Post 8vo, pp. viii.—152, cloth, price 6s. HINDU PHILOSOPHY. THE SANKHYA KĀRIKA OF IS'WARA KRISHNA. BY JOHN DAVIES, M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.A.S. The system of Kapila is the earliest attempt on record to give an answer from reason alone to the mysterious questions which arise in every thoughtful mind about the origin of the world, the nature and relations of man and his future destiny. It contains nearly all that India has produced in the department of pure philosophy. Other systems, though classed as philosophic, are mainly devoted to logic and physical science, or to an exposition of the Vedas. 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HUTCHINSON, C.M.S., Church Mission, Hong Kong, 66 The Mind of Mencius" is a Translation from the German of one of the most original and useful works on Chinese Philosophy ever published. "Mr. Faber is already well known in the field of Chinese studies by his digest of the doctrines of Confucius. In the present volume he gives us a systematic digest of those of Mencius, the greatest and most popular of the disciples of Confucius. The value of this work will be perceived when it is remembered that at no time since relations commenced between China and the West has the former been so powerful-we had almost said aggressive-as now. For those who will give it careful study, Mr. Faber's work is one of the most valuable of the excellent series to which it belongs,"-Nature. Post 8vo, pp. x.-130, cloth, price 6s. A MANUAL OF HINDU PANTHEISM. VEDÂNTASÂRA. Translated, with copious Annotations, by MAJOR G. A. JACOB, Bombay Staff Corps; Inspector of Army Schools. The design of this little work is to provide for missionaries, and for others who, like them, have little leisure for original research, an accurate summary of the doctrines of the Vedânta. "There can be no question that the religious doctrines most widely held by the people of India are mainly Pantheistic. And of Hindu Pantheism, at all events in its most modern phases, its Vedantasâra presents the best summary. But then this work is a mere summary: a skeleton, the dry bones of which require to be clothed with skin and bones, and to be animated by vital breath before the ordinary reader will discern in it a living reality. Major Jacob, therefore, has wisely added to his translation of the Vedantasâra copious notes from the writings of well-known Oriental scholars, in which he has, we think, elucidated all that required elucidation. So that the work, as here presented to us, presents no difficulties which a very moderate amount of application will not overcome."-Tablet. 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