32 THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.S., ON THE 
of a journal in which bibliographical notices would be 
published of the principal works dealing with the Buddhist 
religion appearing in Japan and in the Japanese language. 
eroup of savants to draw up an inventory of Arab 
Christian literature, Judeo-Arabic literature, and  non- 
Mussulman literature in general. 
The reading, by Professor Réville, President of the 
Congress, of a remarkable paper from the pen of Mr. Cony- 
beare, of Oxford, gave rise to the resolution that the atten- 
tion of learned men and historians should be directed more 
and more to the liturgies, rites, and practices of the Christian 
Churches of the East, beyond the influence of Greece and 
Rome, so as to complete our present knowledge of ancient 
Christianity, which is founded almost exclusively upon 
documents of Graeco-Roman origin. (The paper in question, 
which refers to sacrifices in the early Christian Churches, 
will be noticed in its place.) 
Upon the motion of M. Camerlynck, of Amiens, the 
Congress agreed to the following resolution :-—. 
That at the next Congress “attention be drawn to the 
relations which may have | existed, at the commencement, 
between Buddhism and Christianity. 
Certain other resolutions, namely, 
That the Philosophy of Religion should be included withm 
the scope of the Congress ; 
That future Congresses should apply themselves to the 
task of resolving the problem as to the order in which the 
various religions have appeared upon the earth; and 
That the Congress, in view of the religious elements in 
Dante, should compalate to the eaneniion of a Dante 
Society, 
were rejected. 
The question of periodicity was then considered, and it 
was decided that the Congress should meet every four years. 
In consequence of this, the proposal of the secretaries of the 
British group of the International School at the Paris 
Exhibition, that the Congress should be held in Glasgow in 
1901, in connection with the Glasgow Exhibition, and that 
of the Organizing Committee of the Universal Exhibition to 
be held at Liége in 1903, that the Congress should reunite 
there in that year, were declined. It was decided that the 
present commission should continue in power, and constitute 
an international commission, which should choose the city 
where the Congress should next be held, and procure, in that 
