The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-01-29

sOzr1 NEW BOOKS.
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csavsrsese.s WITH . Hsssa saee.
We have had IN recent years good many
books about Ceylon and India. but Mr.. Ed
WAND CknpzNrER's From Adams Peak 10 E7e-
phanfe tMacmiilsn) is the FIRST which essays to
tell us somethinR about those things concern
Ina which We are most curious Regarded.
indeed. merely as q record OF travel this mar
rntive is singularly interesting and instruc-
tive. for the author bora with BIN the two
i~piispsnsable qualifications OF q traveller
the powell OF quick observation and keen
Insight and the well-stored mind which can
interpret what. IL seen. But the chief title OF
This book to attention 10 not based on It's Vivid
descriptions Of scenery. Of architectural and
pictorial monuments. OF religious ceremonial.
OF social pecullarities. OF ethnioal tyres and
Individual idiosyncrasies. All those are pre-
sontsd to us. but to them is added something
Of exceptional. II not OF unique. value. With
out being in any sense a manual Of theosophy.
the best part OF this book represents q patient
aud intelligent attempt to learn at frst hand
and expouud with clearness the fundamental
aims and conceptions OF the Hindu philosophy.
The four chapters devoted to this purpose.
and which embody the authors conversations
with q Hindu'ss sage. should be consecutively
and carefully read. All we can do Mt this time
II to set forth their general purport in an ex-
tremely suecinct way.
7. ,
r. "a. dining b,s stav IN cev,on that MIR.
c.,r.nt.rm hda the consrntanca ~ ona NJ the
..ot.rio t..cher. n, the .noiant relioIous mva-
800. trha.a gurus. or adents. ore n be found
.c.tt.red ali ovar ths mainland Of India. INIT
they lead o secluded existence avoiding the
.,...nt. ~ w..farn c,viIiz.t;or which ora
obnorious 70 them. and thew rarely come into
.ort..t si,h IN. Enolieb or annear unor tha
su,s.c. ~ ord,narv Iifa. Thav ar. divided into
tvo ore.t .choola. tbe Himalavnn and tho
oonth Tnaian. formed nv tine Gradual retire.
yrsnt ~ tha adents into the mountains and
sorasts ~ tbsir raspeotive distriots before Inc
.nrs.d at foreign races and civilizations over
~. Ind,on naninaula The uimalavan school
r.. a.--i.a an tho mara damooratic and nro.
or.aaiva puadbistic tradition. while the South
INDIAN has tent mora to caste and TO the an
ciont nbminical and later Hindu lines. This
separation has led to Emergencies In philoso-
ply. and the author Of this book points out
that there are even slight ieslousies between
tho adherents OF the two schools. but he thinks
that tho differences are nfter all very superb
cial. and that their teaching and their work
MAY be said to DO essentially the same.
As regards the South Indian adopts. who use
yD0 TAMIL lAnRuaR0, tue pOpuluE U6llbI II tDbJ
there were formerly eighteen brotherhoods
dispersed among the mountains and forests OF
the Tamil country. and presided over By
eighteen Sadhoas: and that there was n grand
inner brotherhood composed OF the eighteen
Ssdhoas. holding its. meetings in the hills Of
tho Agnsthya Kutam. in the Tinnevelly dis
trict. Since the advent oil, the English and
their mountaineering and deiorestation, these
ocoultists have retired far into the interior Of
tho thick jungles on the mountains: and a
largo number have. it Is believed. left south
srn India altogether for more conRenial places
Of refuge In tho Himalayan ranges. The chief
object Of these brotherhoods has been to pop
uIarlze ~esoteric truths and bring them home
to the masses. 1t Is owing to their influence
that the Tamil language. which carly bor-
.rowed O multitude OF abstract terms from tho
6anskrit. has been inundated with works on
esoteric philosophy. and now contains q larger
number OF popular ~treatises on the subject
thnu Sans;rit itself.
Irha narrtc,,o ~ Gurn. or, teacb., xvbose ar.
r,oirtanco our author snucht nnd made. be.
Sn,..d IN tba South indian sohooI and WA.
onIv .o;o,rnino for a timo In C.vlon When
hIr n. tn.nt.r nrst Ind tha onnortnnitx nj .oa.
ing ND. hearinr tim Ii. was STAYING IN the
cr.cincts Of a HinJn tomple. Tb, viaitor
fonnd hims,lf in n side chamber. where seat-
Al an. a sim MIA couch. bis he'd and dav sent in
one. Vas al elderly man tsome seventy years
Of aos ,thouph he dId not look nearly as much
"A fhAtl dre.sed only IN n white muslin wrnp.
per wound loosely round his 1.-the md even
sctivs adarl brown form ;sbia head and face
sbnvenn day or rwo ipnst., very. gentle and
spirituaIin EXPRESSION. like the best tyne OF
Roman Catholic priest-s very beautiful full
snd finely formed mouth. STRAIGHT nose.
aud weil-formed chin, dark eyes. I'm.
mistakably the eyes OF a seer. dark.
trimmed teyelids. and a powerful, prophetic,
and wlthal childlike manner. At a iator time
he moved into n little cottage. where for sew.
eral weeks Mr.. Carpsnter saw him nearly
avery day, Every day he was the same, GEN.
erally sitting on his couch with bare arms and
foet. IN. inter often coIIed uoder him-onlv
reoulrtne a question to launch or into a long