INDICA 437

26. SARALA-PANCATANTRAM, or Panchatantra for Beginners.

By UPENDBANATH VIDYABHUSHANA. 7 J X 4 § , iv -f- 112
pp., 7th edition. Calcutta, 1921.
A handy edition of the popular fable-book, simplified as
to vocabulary and sandhi-ioims, with suitable English foot-
notes.

27. HELMUTH v. GLASENAPP, D E R HINDUISMUS : Religion und

Gesellschaft im heutigen Indien. 9 £ x 6 J , xvi+505 pp.,
43 plates. Miinchen: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1921.
The attempt of Dr. v. Glasenapp to present a survey of
the religious and social conditions which together compose
the heterogeneous complex called for a lack of a better term
" Hinduism " has been remarkably successful. His know-
ledge of modern conditions is extensive, and he fully realizes
their organic relation to those of the p a s t ; hence his book
may be described as a general outline of Hindu religion,
philosophy, and social life from the earliest times to the
present day. After discussing India and the Indians and the
nature and development of Hinduism, he treats of the subjects
of religious thought (inanimate and animate beings, spirits and
gods, etc.), religious literature, natural philosophy, moral
conceptions, the philosophical systems, social life and worship,
sects, and finally western influences. On the last-named
topic, which includes the religious, philosophical, and political
movements of, modern times, his survey is notably instructive.
I t shows no trace of political animus, and on the whole
estimates the facts under review fairly and sensibly. Alto-
getfier the book is a good and useful one, and sound without
being obtrusively erudite. Some of the paintings reproduced
in the plates are excellent of their kind.

28. THB SOMA PLANT. By Sj. BEAJA LAL MUKHERJEE, M.A.,

M.R.A.S. 6$x9f, 9 pp. Calcutta, 1922.
The object of this little essay is to demonstrate that the
Soma plant of Vedk ritual is not, as is commonly supposed,

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