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and inteinreted to an Au.stvcillan Theosonliist 
by a well-known Hindu of Ceylon. 'It. L. 
Harrison ' is a lady who is a native of Australia 
and who was for scniie time in Ceylon. She 
had given up Christianity and taken to 
Theosophy aud was a confirined Theosophist. 
'Sri Pai-iiianda ' is t!ii^ assumed name of the 
Hon. Mr. Hainanathan. Attorney-Cieneral of 
Ceylon who is a Hindu ol Hindus. The hook 
hefore us contains in the shape of notes the 
teacliings of the Hon. Mr. Ilam.iiiathan. Our 
readers will now see that the instruetxjr is 
the Hon. Mr. Ilamanathan of Cevlon and 
the person instructed is Miss R. L. HaiTi- 
son of Australia. How long this instruction 
has heen gniii.uf on we cannot say : hut we 
believe the main portion of the notes con- 
tained in the ()ook wei-e written on ho.-ird the 
" Ballaraat " by Miss Harriscm at tlie dicta- 
tion of Mr. Rainanathan when they went to 
London for the Jubilee. In her preface to 
the })ook Miss R. L. Harrison acknowledges 
that "every word of the notes at the foot of 
the text i'ell fiom the lijis of my l)e]oved 
Teacher" and she adds prayerfully ")nayhis 
connnentary (\stablish in (Jhi-ist and God all 
who liave thoughtfully read, discussed and 
doubted, ;i.nd at l.ust in<)urned and hnngei-ed 
for Truth !" The Hon. Mr. Ramanath.in found 
in Matthew's record of the teaching and life of 
Christ a very close coincidence with Hindu 
Philosophy, esj)ecially that of the yoga sys- 
tem. The ti'utli tliat he taught Miss Harri- 
son may be sununarised in his own words as 
follows : — "The great trutli is that .Jesus was 
not a.n idle dre.'Jiuin- nor a vain theoriser, hut 
a man of the deepest spiritual ex]jerience, a 
true teacher of the kingdom of (xod, a verit- 
able light into the world, whose doctrine 
must be recognised by all othei- men of 
spiritual experience as leading to the sanc- 
tification or healing of the spirit and thus to 
the attainment of God The true expon- 
ents of .Tesus have little to do with history, 
but everything with doctrine, and you will 
find that the toachmgs of .Tesus, so far as they 
are recorded in the holy books, stand on the 
firm ground of actual experience and are 
verifiable by those who by native disposition 
and previous culture are sympathetic enough 
to persevere in all earnestness and faith in 
the way ordained by those who have become 
sanctified in spirit." 
A JOURNEY IN WESTERN THIBET. 
"J. A.D.," in the second of n, series of letters 
on the above subject, contributed to the 
Timef of India, refers as follows to a conver- 
sation with the Bishop of Colombo, who is, 
of course, one of the leading authorities on 
Buddhism since the appearance of his very 
adequate and learned book :— 
" During a visit to C»yion tlie writer had a most 
interesting talk on tlie subject with the Bishop of 
Colombo, Dr. Copleston, tlie author of an iiiterest- 
in{5 work on Bu(l'!hisni. He seemed to think that 
the ti^ndeney of Sinhalese Baddhisni is to endeavour 
to go back to the original tenents and ])ractiees of 
the early teachers ot the faith, and to imitate the 
orthodoxy of the Thibetsn Lamas. He nienti(«'d 
the revival of the practice of contemplation, that 
striking characteristic of many Thibetdn monks, 
who prefers to spend hours and days in conttfmpla- 
tion of divine things, lost to all sense of materia.1 
things, and even to the ph^eicai discomiort of re- 
maining in the same position for a long time. 
Several modem Baddhiet writers have advocated 
the nnity of Buddhism, bat it is not likely that 
the Huddhist of Southern Asia would pay alle- 
giance to the hierarchy of Lhassa, which \\ould 
seem the only possible solution of the p'oblem. 
Northern Baddnism has itself been inod:ficd by 
Hindu influences such as Siva worship, but such ia- 
flnenceR have been local lather than penerel is 
thoir effect" 
AN ENTHUSIASTIC FRENCH ADMIRER 
OF CEYLON 
M. Emilk Hri'YAs, a French gentleman of 
nieauH, visited Ceylon with his wife at the 
beginning of 18!/7 : utilised the two montlis 
of his stay in the island to the best .ulvaut- 
age ; and on his retui'u to his native Laud 
wi'ote his impresKions of what he had seen, 
and liiul thenr printed, accompanied hy re» 
producti<ms of photogi'anhii taken by himself 
or (in a few ca.ses) hy local plj<Jt<)gT.ii>hei-K. 
His hook* is l)(^;iutifully printe»l, and the 
photogiaphic leproductions are often charm- 
ing, showing that M. Brnj'.a.s h.is the eye of 
an artist. An unusual feature is that the 
sheets are not ev en stitched, hut placed loot^e 
in a stiff cover: so that eiich ]M>8se.st>ur of 
a cujjy can have it h<iund as he ple.i-se. Of 
the tv.'o hundreil and tifiy copies printed (all 
miniijcred) only JifttJ are for sale, the i-e.st, we 
sn|)i)o.se, having heen presented hy the author 
to his friends, lihi-aries, Arc. He doerves t he 
thanks of the island for his lioerality; foi- 
he h;is certainly done his hest to induce 
others to follow his example. To his book 
he prefixes a niiip (reduced from the one pul>- 
lished at the Cci/lon OhHcrrcr Office) show- 
ing the route folkiwed hy him in the island. 
In his brief preface, -M. Binyas points out 
how easily and com^iaratively cheajily a trip 
to, and a short stay in, Ceylon can be made; 
and he strongly advises his compatriots to 
book through Cook's agency, the advantages 
of which he experienced more than once 
when in difficulties in our island. He con- 
cludes his preface thus : — 
All the steamers s top at Colombo of necessity, 
to take in coal, inferior Australian coal, but 
there is no choice ; and if Colombo refused coal, 
all these magnificent steamers would become 
floating waifs ; without any act of hostility, 
simply by refusing coal, the Engli.sh could auniil 
all ioi-eign navigation in the Indian Ocean, and 
there would be no means of going to look for 
it elsewhere. Singapore and Aden are also Eng- 
lish depots, and it is not the coal of Djibouti 
or Kiibao that would save the situation. Note 
that a coal depOt must be strongly protected, 
provided with lighters, and a multitude of coolies 
to carry out the supply quickly. "Whence it 
results that it is absurd to have colonies when 
one is not certain of being able always to be 
in communication with them, aud tliat it is 
prudent to think of organising them so that 
they can, if the necessity arise, be self-sufficient 
in everything. 
*EmileBruyas Deux Hois a Ceylan, Colombo, 
Kandy, Nurrelya, Badulla, Ratnapoura, Le 
Musee de Colombo, L'lle Ramescheram, Anu- 
radhupoura, Ghronique et Statistique. Illustre 
de. cent cinquante Reproductions dans le texte. 
—Lyon. 1898. 
