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A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical. 
By JOSEPH EDKINS, D.D., 
Author of ‘‘ Religion in China,’’ ‘‘ Introduction to the Study of the Chinese Characters,” 
** A Mandarin Grammar,” &c. 
. With an Index by A. WYLIE. 
When the first Hindoo missionaries arrived at the capital of China and were admitted to see the 
Emperor, it was, the Buddhists tell us, in the last month of the year A.D. 68, and the thirtieth day of 
that month. By imperial command they were entertained in a building called Penea si, ‘‘ Office 
of the White Horses ;"' so named because they had ridden on white horses on their way from Cabul. 
The two Brahmans enjoyed the imperial favour, and one of the books they translated has remained 
popular to the present time. 
Thirteen years befoie these men reached China, the first missionaries of Christianity crossed the 
tigean Sea and entered Europe. Instead of being received, however, with the smiles of those in 
power and enjoying imperial hospitality, they were publicly whipped and imprisoned by the magis- 
trates of a Roman colony, and ignominiously dismissed. : 
Buddhism coveret China with monasteries and images; Christianity covered Europe with 
A hundred authors have written on the history of the spread of 
Christianity in the various countries of Europe. Very few have ever studied the history of Buddhism 
as it has spread through China, and taught its doctrines in every part of that empire. There is room 
Sor new information on the entrance, progress, and characteristics of Chinese belief in the religion 
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From the Atish Kadah, 
By EDWARD B. EASTWICK, F.R.S., M.R.A.S., &c. 
The Gulistan of Sadi has attained a popularity in the East which, perhups. has never been 
reached by any European work in this Western world. The schoolboy lisps out his first lessons in it ; 
the man of lezrning quotes it; and a vast number of its expressions have become proverbial. When 
we consider, indeed, the time at which it was written—the first half of the thirteenth century—a time 
when gross darkness brooded over Europe, at least—darkness which might have been, but, alas! was 
not felt—the justness of many, of zts. sentiments, and the glorious views of the Divine attributes 
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