A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature / by John Dowson.

  • Dowson, John, active 1913.
Date:
1879
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Credit: A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history, and literature / by John Dowson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Post 8vo, pp. xxviiL—362, cloth, pirice 14s. A TALMUDIC MISCELLANY; Or, a thousand AND ONE EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD, THE MIDRASHIM, AND THE ELABBALAH. Compiled and Translated by PAUL ISAAC HERSHON, Author of “ Genesis According to the Talmud,” ic. With Notes and Copious Indexes. “ To obtain in so concise and handy a form ns this volume a general idea of the Talmud is a boon to Christians at least.”—Timet. “ This is a new vohime of the ‘ Oriental Series,’ and its peculiar and popular character will make it attractive to general readers. Mr. Hershon is a very com- petent scholar. . . . The present selection contains samples of the good, bad, and indifferent, and especially extracts that throw light upon the Scriptures. The extracts have been all derived, word for word, and made at first hand, and references are carefully given.”—British Quarterly Reriew. “ Mr. Hershon’s book, at all events, will convey to English readers a more complete and truthful notion of the Talmud than any other work that has yet appeared.”— Daily News. “ Without overlooking in the slightest the several attractions of the previous volumes of the ‘ Oriental Series,’ we have no hesitation in saying that this surpasses them all in interest.”—Edinburgh Daily Review. “ Mr. Hershon has done this ; he has taken samples from all parts of the Talmud, and thus given English readers what is, we believe, a fair set of specimens which they can test for themselves.”—The Record. “ Altogether we believe that this book is by far the best fitted in the present state of knowledge to enable the general reader or the ordinary student to gain a fair and unbiassed conception of the multifarious contents of the wonderful miscellany w hieh can only be truly understood—so Jewish pride asserts—^by the life-long devotion of scholars of the Chosen People.”—Inquirer. “The value and importance of this volume consist in the fact that scarcely a single extract is given in its pages but throws some light, direct or refracted, upon those Scriptures which are the common heritage of Jew and Christian alike.”—Voin BulL “ His acquaintance with the Talmud, ifcc., is seen on every page of his book. . . . It is a capital specimen of Hebrew scholarship ; a monument of learned, loving, light- giving labour.”—Jewish Herald. Post 8vo, pp. xii.—228, cloth, price 7s. 6d. THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE. By basil HALL CHAMBERLAIN, Author of “ Yeigo Heftkaku Shirafi.” ” A very curious volume. The author has manifestly devoted niueh labour to the task of studying the poetic.al litcratiiro of the Japaneses ““i rendering characieristic sirccimons into English verse.”—Daily Noes. “ Mr. Chamberlain’s volume is, so far as wo are aw.are. the first attempt which has been made to intcrjn-ct the literature of the Jn]>anase to the wc.stem world. It is to the classical poetry of Old Jaisin that wo must turn for indigenous Japanese thought, and in the volume before vis wo have a selection from that ixretry rendered into graceful English verso.”—Tablet. ‘‘It is undoubtedly one of the Ircst tran-slations of lyric literature which h;is appeared during the close of the last yoiir.”—Celestial Empire. “ Mr. Chamberlain set himself a difficult t.ssk when he undertook to reproduce .Tapanoso poetry in an English form. Hut ho has evidently laboured con amore, lUid his cfTorts are successful to a degree.”—London and China Express.