by a series of ten chapters on Bar Hebraeus and his writings, the Syriac language and the Monophysites, the Syriac Versions of the Bible, etc., and a careful description of the manuscript and authorities on which he has based his text. Gregory Abu'l Faraj, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus, was, as he tells us in his own words, the son of one Ahrôn, a physician of Jewish extraction, and was born at Melitene in 1225-6. He was stricken with a fever, and after an illness that lasted only three days, he died in the night of the 30th day of the seventh month in 1286 at Marāgah. He was held in much honour by his fellow citizens for his piety and learning that Greeks, Armenians and Nestorians attended his funeral; he was buried finally in the Convent of Már Mattai, near Môsul. Bar Hebraeus was a voluminous writer and his versatility was great. His works comprise chronicles, sacred and profane, treatises on grammar, poetical compositions, theological works, and treatises on philosophy. He also made a translation into Syriac of Aristotle's philosophical works, which he called "Hewath Hekhměthâ, "i.e. the "Cream of Wisdom;" it was divided into four parts, viz., Logic, Physic, Metaphysics and Practical Philosophy. There is a copy of this great and important work, made by the late Bishop Millus of Mosul, in the British Museum. But the greatest of all his original works is the famous "Ausar Râzê," i.e., "Storehouse of Secrets," or "Treasury of Mysteries," which contains a commentary on the Old and New Testaments. To the Syriac scholar the value of this important work is chiefly philological, and it is a veritable mine for the Syriac lexicographer. The attention of scholars and divines in Europe was directed to it by Dudley Loftus, who in 1695 published a few extracts from the portion of it that deals with the Four Gospels. Many portions of the work were published by Syriac scholars in the XIXth century, and a list of them is given by Mr. Carr on p. ci. of this book : another list with fuller details will be found in Baumstark's Geschichte der Syrischen Literatur, Bonn, 1922, p. 31a. The object of Bar Hebraeus in writing this great work was to establish a correct text of the Syriac Version of the whole Bible, and of some of the Apocrypha. He was well acquainted with Greek, and his remarks show that he possessed some knowledge both of Coptic and Armenian; much of the information which he gives us is derived from the writings of Isho'dadh of Merv and Dionsius bar Salîbhî. He knew and used the Syriac Versions of the New Testament made by Paul of Tellâ and Philoxenus of Mabbogh (VIth century), and the revision of the work of the latter made by Thomas of Harqel. He did not scruple to adopt the variant readings of Versions later than the Peshittâ-Version made by the Patriarch Michael, and he was sufficiently independent in his views to prefer some of the Nestorian readings to those of the Jacobites. His original contributions to the Commentary are valuable. It may be noted in passing that he approved of some portions of the Diatessaron of Tatian, which he seems to have confused with the "Harmony" of Ammonius. All these points Mr. Carr illustrates with considerable skill. The Syriac text of Mr. Carr's edition is well printed and is wonderfully free from misprints, and his translation is clear and careful, and students will find it very helpful. There are various points in his introductory chapters which require fuller treatment, and he might have made more use of the recent literature of his subjects with advantage, especially as regards the early Palestinian dialects of Syriac. But his work has permanent value, and every Syriac scholar owes him thanks. In his Preface he tells us modestly that he bought and set up the type for the Syriac section with his own hands, and he is to be congratulated on the excellent results. In respect of this achievement he stands alone among Syriac scholars, and his devotion and skill in the difficult work of setting Syriac types, with their initial, medial and final forms, will command the applause of scholars in general. Psalms of a Saiva Saint. By the Rev. T. Isaac Tambyah, D.D. The Times Literary Supplement, reviewing The Rev. T. Isaac Tambyah's "Foregleams of God," expressed the hope that "the author, continuing his task, would draw upon his special knowledge of the Siddhanta philosophy and Tamil literature." This wish is fulfilled in "Psalms of a Saiva Saint," just published. contains verse-renderings of Tayumanavar's Hymns and a full and learned thesis on the Siddhanta. The book We have pleasure in calling attention to a work of profound interest as a monument of the religious and ethical history of Japan, which has lately been published under the auspices of the Chionin Temple at Kyoto. This is a translation by Dr. Harper H. Coates and the Rev. Professor Ryugaku Ishizuka of Shunjos biography of Honen compiled by order of the Emperor Go-Fushimi, and now appearing in English dress under the title Honen the Buddhist Saint: his Life and Teaching, with introductions, index, and list of Chinese characters arranged according to strokes, and embellished by a number of well executed plates reproducing ancient paintings and drawings illustrative of the Saint's career. Honen's life (A.D. 1133-1212) marks an era in the history of Japanese Buddhism. His preaching of "Nembutsu" aimed at bringing salvation to all, even the frailest of mankind, and it attained enormous popularity and was widely developed in various directions. Shunjo's copious biography, compiled nearly a century after Honen's death, is the earliest record of any importance of this remarkable personality, and contains a large amount of valuable information. As now Englished by Dr. Coates and Professor Ishizuka, it forms a handsome volume of 1049 pages, on which the learned translators deserve to be heartily congratulated. If the late Sir Asutosh Mookerjee had not done anything else than merely start the Post Graduate Department of the Calcutta University, it would have been a great work, for the impetus it gave to the study of ancient culture was immense, and to this is due the production, all over India, of a great deal of literature of considerable value bearing on the subject. It was therefore only in the fitness of things that a guild of scholars should have formed the ideo af further perpetuating his memory by trying to publish a Sir Asutosh Memorial Volume. The task of collecting the articles and seeing the book through the press has been entrusted to Professor J. N. Samaddar of the Patna University, who, as the Times aptly observed, belongs to that select band of scholars who are now devoting themselves to the reconstruction of the ancient history ofIndia and whose two excellent works— "The Economic Condition of India” and “The Glories of Magadha"-entitle him to such a position of confidence. Among scholars who have already sent in their contributions are Mrs. Rhys Davids, Drs. Jolly, Keith, De la Vallée Poussin, and Coomaraswami, while Drs. Jacobi and Winternitz are also expected to contribute. All the Indian Universities are fully represented, the Calcutta University, with which the name of the late Sir Asutosh is so closely and intimately associated, sending in a strong contingent of articles, while Allahabad, Dacca, Punjab, Madras, Mysore, Lucknow, Patna and Visva Bharati have not lagged behind. 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