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 TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. ' Post 8vo, pp. 336, cloth, price i6s. THE RELiaiONS OF INDIA. By a. BARTH. Translated from the French with the authority and assistance of the Author. The author has, at the request of the publishers, considerably enlarged the work for the translator, and has added the literature of the subject to date ; the translation may, therefore, be looked upon as an equivalent of a new and improved edition of the original. " Is not only a valuable manual of the religions of India, which marks a distinct step in the treatment of the subject, but also a useful work of reference." — Academy. "This volume is a reproduction, with corrections and additions, of an article contributed by the learned author two years ago to the ' Encyclopedie des Sciences Religieuses.' It attracted much notice when it first appeared, and is generally admitted to present the best summary extant of the vast subject with which it deals." — Tablet. " This is not only on the whole the best but the only manual of the religions of India, apart from Buddhism, which we have in English. The present work . . . shows not only great knowledge of the facts and power of clear exposition, but also great insight into the inner history and the deeper meaning of the great religion, for it is in reality only one, which it proposes to describe." — Modern Revieic. " The merit of the work has been emphatically recognised by the most authoritative Orientalists, both in this country and on the continent of Europe, But probably there are few Indianists (if we may use the word) who would not derive a good deal of information from it, and especially from the extensive bibliography provided in the notes." — Dublin Review. " Such a sketch M. Barth has drawn with a master-hand."— Critic (New York). Post 8vo, pp. viii.— 152, cloth, price 6s. HINDU PHILOSOPHY. The SANKHYA K A RIKA of IS' WAR A KRISHNA. An Exposition of the System of Kapila, with an Appendix on the Nyaya and Vais'eshika Systems. By JOHN DAVIES, M.A. (Cantab.), M.R.A.S. The system of Kapila contains nearly all that India has produced in the department of pure philosophy. "The non- Orientalist . . . iinds in Mr. Davies a patient and learned guide who leads him into the intricacies of the philosophy of India, and supplies him with a clue, that he may not be lost in them. In the preface lie states that 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,' and in his learned and able notes he exhibits ' the connection of the Sankhya system with the philo- sophy of Spinoza,' and ' the connection of the system of Kapila with that of Schopen- hauer and Von Hartniann.' " — Foreign Church Chronicle. " Mr. Davies's volume on Hindu Philosophy is an undoubted gain to all students of the development of thought. The system of Kapila, which is here given in a trans- lation from the Sankhya Karika, is the only contrihution of India to pure philosophy. . . . Presents many points of deep interest to the student of comparative philo- sophy, and without Mr, Davies's lucid interpretation it would be difficult to appre- ciate these points in any adequate manner." — Saturday Review. " We welcome Mr. Davies's book as a valuable addition to our philosophical library."— iVotes and Queries.