THE PILGRIM KAMANITA
BY
KARL GJELLERUP
Crown 8vo, 6/-
SOME PRESS OPINIONS
TIMES.—"Behind the imagination which floats 'The Pilgrim Kamanita' above the common, there is a solid background of historical study which enables Mr. Gjellerup to make his characters and his scenes real. He has managed to catch the atmosphere of ancient India, and so to wrap it about every place and act and speech in the story that the illusion and the spell are on us from beginning to end.… It is a real romance, full of life and colour and such colour as only India in the full sensuous splendour of Hindu rites can offer.… The pilgrimage of Kamanita is a convincing picture of the conversion of a typical Hindu to the severe rule of early Buddhism, and the several degrees by which he approaches final initiation or extinction are finely described. But this legendary romance is more than that. It is a beautiful allegory of the higher life, full of suggestion and even inspiration for those who have ears to hear. Mr. Gjellerup is to be congratulated not only on a noble idea, most skilfully presented, but also upon a translator who hardly ever lets us feel that we are not reading the original."
BOOKMAN.—"This remarkable and interesting story.… Throughout the whole … there runs an exquisite feeling for the beauty and poetry of life."
ACADEMY.—"It deserves a place among our classic literature."
BIRMINGHAM POST.—"It could not have been the remarkable success it is if the author had not been endowed with very exceptional gifts."
ABERDEEN FREE PRESS.—"A wonderful work of art … In every respect a gem … bringing real refreshment and rest to the reader jaded with conventional and sensational plots."
TRUTH.—A wonderful book. As you read you are in India, ancient India, and walk with Buddha and understand Nirvana. To read 'The Pilgrim Kamanita' is a religious education in Buddhism and in the Four Sacred Truths, and also an Eastern Pilgrim's Progress through the Paradise of the West—as far from Bunyan's as the East is from the West."
DAILY GRAPHIC.—"No description will convey its esoteric attraction or do justice to its remarkable talent."
