This first volume, which is rich in valuable materials, is given to the reader with the conviction that it would be even more valuable if parts of it had been rigorously condensed. In the second volume, for which the materials are still richer, the editor will endeavor, by the careful pruning of papers not bearing directly on the topics of comparative religion, to furnish a book of 800 pages, in which the gold will be even more abundant than in the first volume.
J. H. B.
