Modern Review April 1924

If I had had any reason to think that bunling on the part of some newspaper-man had been responsible for the one-sidedness of the summary of the MacDonald message which appeared in the British press I knew that conscious bias was responsible for the coment which appeared after the publication of the full text. [...] 5 Cremation of Buddha Vif4/ 131 Among Greek motif's characteristic of Greek treatment and drapery we find tw I ditinctly new features in their school the first of which 's the introduction of images and second the representation of the life-story of Buddha in the form of has-reliefs. [...] The history of India again emerges from the obscurity of anarchy and internecine feuds into the light of the day and northern India comes to acknowledge the suzerainty of one sovereign. [...] The territory stretching from Purushapura (Peshawar) to the mouths of the Ilooghly bounded by the waters of the Narmada in the south enjoyed all the amenties of an ancient and well-organised empire. [...] The magnficent pagoda constructed by the F.uperor ICanishka was still in existence to testify to the seal and fervour of the convert-king lifatbura was then one of the most important places of Buddhism and the banks of the Juma resounded with the recitations and prayers of some 3000 priests engaged in ministering the elaborate ritual of Mahayana Buddhism in 20 big sanctuaries.