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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Religions Of Asia A COPY OF WOLFE'S

And Of The Future

["Aulatic Mythology," by I. Hakin: ¡verted to Buddhism.

is quite different. The Chinese!

ORDERS FOUND

First Hand Account Of Pro-Siege Events

is dated 1759,

Ottawa, Caunda.

This book gives an interesting are no more capable than ourselves CAXTON ISSUE SOLD account of the deities and demons of believing in three distluct ro- | which have called forth the adora-ligious systems at once-of balley-i

FOR £1,100. tion and awe of the teeming ing, for example, as Buddhists that millions of Persia, India, China there is no supreme god governing Bought By American

the universe, the gods

Joseph Conrad's

"Lord Jim"

A Singapore Pilgrim Ship.

Jeddah, for she was successfully towed by Autenor Into Aden.

"The oni," Clement Huari; Raymondo says Mon. Serge Eliseev, "have Linossler; H. de Wilmar-never been considered by the A first-hand account of events

"The captain of the Jeddah and Grabowska; Charles Heart Japanese as particularly formid-leading up to Wuife's famous siege

his companions were picked up by Marchal; Henri Mospero;} able beings. The temperate of Quebec came to light here.

OFFICER HERO:

the Sindia and landed at Aden, Serge Eliseev. With an Intro-climate of the country, the absence It was found in the home of Nou-

where they reported the Jeddah as duction by Paul-Louis Cou- of ferocious beasts and poisonous lan Cauchon, town planning expert

Though the late Joseph Conrad a total loss with all hands. choud. London: George G. serpents, are possibly the cause of and engineer and member of one of did not claim his famous novel,

Inquiry Report. Harrap and Co. £3. 3. 0.3 this mild character."

Canada's oldest French-Canadian Lord Jim, to be anything more than "An inquiry was held, and is fully Asía seems to have been the great Thus, too, we might naturally families.

fiction, the mal facts upon which reported in the Merchant Shipping. seed-bed of most of the religious explain how the rigid monotheism The document, considered one of he based the book are of consider-Acts Investigations, 1880-1881, No. ideas and movements of the world. of the desert, the Jehovah and the most important historical finds able interest.

896, Jeddah s.8. Captain Clark had Europe may have been the birth-Allah of Syria and Arabia, gotin years, is an original manuscript In an articls recently published his certificato suspended for threo place of the scientific method; gradually softened down in the copy of the memorandum book of in a weekly review, the writer years. In confirming this sentence, Egypt of the origin of agriculture sunny south" by the additions of General Wolfe's orderly officer and stated that the state, Lord Jim, re- the then Governor of Bombay, Sir and the domestication of plants; mariolatry and the houris.

mained on board the Patna, really James Fergusson, remarked that but the East seems to have been the Prof. Henri Maspero has written The book contains Wolte's orders the Jeddah, when she was abandon-the sentence was inadequate for the nome of mysticism and ceremonial the essay on "the Mythology of for the expedition up the St. Law-ed by the rest of the white officers, man, who had shown himself entire religion. The riotous tangle of be- modern China." And we cannot do rence River, secret orders for the that he played the here, comfortingly unfit to be entrusted with the lief and practice, covering every- better than quote from his intro-landing, and other pertinent mat-the pilgrims and steaming the ship charge of life and property at sea. thing from crude phallicism and duction to give the reader an idea tera.

into Aden with the aid of five of- "As for the mate, we quote the ritualistic cannibalism, through fe- of his masterly treatment of this Here is a sample order:

ficers lost by the Blue Funnel ship | Aden Court's remarks. tishlem, tolemism and animal wor-difficult subject:-"It is often sald

"The corps are to have 86 rounds Antenor. It was also stated that "Before concluding, the Court ship, to the mystic 'Our' and the re-that the Chinese have three re- of ammunition; some loose ball the subsequent Court of Inquiry consider it necessary to place on re- Runciations and asceticisms of Bud-ligions, Confucianism, Buddhism, and flints per man."

complimented the mats highly on cord their disapprobation of the dhism, all centre, like the origin of and Taoism; and by this It is not One pasange gave a diagram of his conduct, and that the Blue Fun-eonduct of the first officer, Mr. Wil man himself, in Eastern Asia. And meant that some дро Taoists, "the order of encampment of the nel Line offered him a job, which liams, of the Jeddah, who may be the more one studies the expressions others Buddhists, and others Con- army in the line" and "order of was accepted, but this was not the said to have more than aided and of religious belief current in Europe fucianista, but that each Chinese is battle in two lines," The latter case. The facts are made clear by abetted the master in the abandon- the more one realises that their individually an adherent of the showed clearly that Wolfe know Mr. Townley as follows:

ment of his vessel. The Court con- real source, if not the solar dise it three religions at the same time, that his best, If not only, chance

"There is no doubt that the Patna [sider it very probable that, for Mr. self, at any rate is in that region This is one of the felpe notions so of victory was to force the French was the Jeddah, of Singapore. On William's officious behaviour and which gets its name, the Orient, prevalent about Chin The reality to an open battle.

July 19, 1880, she left Penang for unseamanlike confurt, the master from the rising of the sun.

Jeddah with some 953 pilgrims on would (by the first mate's` own board, together with 600 tons of car showing) have done his duty by re- go, under the command of Captainmaining on the ship. Had there Joseph Clark, who was accompanied bean any evidence except the first by his wife and child.

mata's own statement on this point "It was

the time of the S.W. the Court would have felt constrain- monsoon, and bid weather beset ed to have put him on trial also, her for most of the voyage. On the they cannot therefore refrain from night of August 6 she developed remarking that they consider that When the Duc d'Aumale paid boiler trouble, and after labouring in this Instance he has shown him- complete enlightenment; an Taoists 230 in 1854 for a fine example of along in difficulties the excessiva self unfitted, for his position as first that the world is governed by

Caxton's first issue in 1488 of E

The mate on a crowded pilgrim vessel."" The Editor in his Introduction trinity of supreme gods, personal, Voragine's "Golden Legend" all rolling shifted both bollers.

engine-room became untenable, and has viewed religion more in the all-powerful, and eternal, the

the evening of August 7 the position the vessel began to leak badly. By light of the resultant product. Three Pure Ones; and again. 00 There is often a danger lest writers Confucianists that the supreme

was very bad. The pilgrims joined "Johnson's England" is a book who do this may turn history into power that rules the world is the generally been sold privately, and

"in preparation" with the Oxford n divine draran and marshal the Impersonal Heaven, impersonal not long ago the Rozenbachs ac- events to suit the idea; or if they though endowed with conscious- quired, by private negotiation, the

University Press. Readers' debt to the Clarendon Press, the Oxford cannot, give the whole theatre of ness. The three religions, as de-Caxtons in the muniment rooms at

Lines In Danger.

Press, and Mr, Humphrey Milford is things up to chaos, and like Father finite systems, have now for

"That night the master ordered heavy, and every year grows more Newman, when he reallaes the facts soveral centuries had only hig At Sotheby's, in the concluding '

Perhaps not every reader won't fit his theory, simply say, torical interest: the people neither day's sale of the library formed by the preparation of a boat. The pil-heavy. "oither there is no Creator, or Ha practice all three together, librarian of Durham Cathedral, ap that the lives of the master and his edition of Cowper, and Leigh Hunt the inte John Meade Falkner, grims had become somewhat disor. knows how much good editing Mr. ganised, and the mats suggested Milford has done. There is hie each of the three separately. Lit- But there is no danger of any tle by little throughout the ages a peared the largest copy known of such treatment of history by Dr. popular religion has taken shape, 1534 in. by 10 18-18in.; the next in ly, they took to the boats, together Milford edited him for the Oxford the "Golden Legend," measuring family were in danger. According- has come into his own since Mr. Couchoud. in' a masterly and all- which borrowed various features too-brief Introduction he leads us from all three, but which is de- size being Bishop More's copy in with the chief engineer. In a fury Poets. to the heart of the whole studies.finitely distinct from them all, and the Cambridge University Library white men who were their salvation of despair the pilgrims, secing, the "To penetrate to the heart of a ci- must he regarded 09 1 system The Rosenbacha cabled a strong.

commission for the rare volume, departing, attempted to stop the boat. They succeeded in pulling knowledge of its gods. And in the We have quoted thus at length and won it at £1,100.

the mate off the rail us he was about very end that is what we come back from Prof. Maspero because his £2,300 for the Caxton "Chronicles to board the boat, but he jumped

years ago, they gave to. The creation of the gods is the statement gives a very clear sum-of England," and if there had been overboard and was picked up by the most national, the most secret, the mary of present day belief in 'alowest, the loftiest, of the works China. The religion of the more stability in money matters,

of man. It is the supreme achieve Chinese is naturally not a religion reasonably have fetched more than in another boat with two passengers ment of his profound experiences. for export. It is purely a means It is the mysterious fruit of minds of appeasement and satisfaction to £2,000, despite the fact that the and an Arab. His attempt was frus- in the mass.

copy lacked 87 of the original trated by the pilgrims, who cut the "How many thoughts and accu-

leaves. No perfect example is boat falla, and all the occupants mulated desires must go to make a cleavage that prevails in religions British Museum, the Bodleian, and was the only white man left on to the great extant, not even those in the were drowned. The second sngineer god? The gods have no reality-the difference between the-local the Rylands Library at Manchester, board. He also had tried to escapó,

and Japan.

being A composite work is almost mediocre beinga of limited power, bound to suffer from inequality subject to birth and death, inferior and lack of cohesion. these to the Buddhas who have attained

rempesta, however, this book seems

to suffer less than most.

haa disowned His creatures."

vilization we ought to begin with a apart."

save

a local deity.

This leads US

Dealers.

Sinco

the book-world wondered. that time famous Caxtons (such as the Amherst array in 1908) have

York Minster..

Three

the Caxton just offered would

JAPANESE POEMS AND THE WEST.

their efforts to those of the crew in pumping and baling to keep the

water down.

boat.

"The second mate tried to decope

master despatched the mate, R. S. Campbell, to board her. Mr. Camp- [bell's prompt measures inved the.

a spiritual one, but this religion and the world religion. But the one sold in the Duke of but was prevented by the now mad- reality is superior to that of all This essential distinction hardly Roxburghe's sale, early last cen- doned pilgrims. the humble worshippers who give receives sufficient emphasis in this tury, wanted only four leaves, yet "The next afternoon the Jed- them life. In the orchard of volume. Some religions are dis-brought then no more than £35. duh's signals of distress were scen humanity they are the golden tinctly bound up with geographical Altogether the Falkner books and by the Blue, Funnel liner Antenor, apples to which all sapa flow and or local conditions so closely that manuscripts realised the goodly homeward bound from China, Her concentrate."

they must remain the exclusive total of £8,010. This is beautifully put, but if property of the particular tribe Dr. Couchoud were more biologi- which gave them birth. Others cally minded he might have on- are definitely for, export. Their quired into the nature of the seeds devotees are missionaries and. they which produced these "golden intend to captivate. Even those apples," and tried to discover why religions, however, which are out Professor Ashtaro Miyamori has there is more dross in the gold in to captivate have found that as brought out a collection of ancient some fruits than in others. Why they spread from their point of and modern Haiku, or saventeen is the flower of Buddhism in Tibet origin many of their fundamental syllable Japanese poems, with an so much less attractive than in dogmas had to receive a slow but English translation in an attempt | Japan Dr. Couchoud roalises the radical modification, and that they to Introduce this type of Japanese difference, for he says, "Japanese had to absorb new elements to suit poetry in Western countries. Buddhism is, I believe, the most the new conditions or else suc- The publication is made possibic

New Haven, Connecticut, exquisite blossom of religion upon cumb.

Mrs. Nathanial. Hawthorne, wife Buddhism, for instance, through financial aid by Prince this earth."

could hardly take much hold, at Takamatsu, the Emperor's brother. of the author of "The House of Or why does the male least in one of its essential doc Five hundred copies are distribut Seven Gables" and "The Scarlet Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara be-trines, on

the Esquimaux. The able to literary men abroad through books to conform to her own stan- Letter," altored her husbanda note- come transformed into the most bellaf in the sanctity of animal the Foreign Office, approachable and attractive of the life would have to be dropped: Chinese female deities, Kwan

HAWTHORNE'S WIFE AS CENSOR.

Famous Author's Style

Corrected.

dards of propriety and morality...

Professor Randall Stewart - of Yum! Perhaps the very nature of an impossibility in the arctic is the new title of Gilbert Slater's Hawthorne's original notes here and A pure vegetarian diet is simply The Growth of Modern England" Yale University read extracts from the country. Itself has something

circle. do with it. The very devils in

Many Europeana have book, "The Making of Modern Eng pointed out evidence of Mrs. Haw noticed that Japan are mild and become con- thrives better than any forms of Slater has co extended its scope has just published the first edition Muhammedaniam land," which he has rewritten. Dr. thorne's "prudish censorship.". He Christianity among the pagan and revised its matter in bringing of the notebooks as they wore ac races of Africa because it allows the survey down to date that it is tually written by Hawthorne, and encourages polygamy. A mis-almost a new book. sionary who can make Easter into

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When Hawthorne described a wo |man as a “devil of a brunette," his Wife changed it to "mischief of a

Tsing Ming is likely to get more in other many respects Mythralam brunette." "Quick-tempered as the converts in China and Korea, and was so ilke Christianity that some devil" was altered to very quick he has probably chance of even of the early Father of the Church tempered." She altered "store" to moro still if he can equate the thought that it was a sort of shop," "pantaloons" to "trousers," Virgin Mary and Kyun Yum.

A diabolical avatar of Christianity, and "supper time" to "ten time.” Just before and at the beginning born out of due time, through the She cut out incidents which she

of the Christian Era Mythralam wiles of the devil. But this seems regarded as cynical-Reuter, gained wide prevalence over to be putting the cart before the Europe, and, according to some horse,

First editions of important books. authorities, might have been suc- Perhaps an eclectic religion, about London are quickly sold. Co- cessful but for one fact--it had no based on a principle somewhat Jiku. Jonel Blackham's book. “London place in ita worship for women, that which governed Esperanto ss for Ever The Bovereign. City,” i6. Now in every country women form a language, might have the best already in a second edition. The the mainstay of religious-cere- chance of becoming International first big edition was sold out before HONG KONG. mony and ritual. Mythralem and making a world-wide appeal. publication, This is one of Samp-

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