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his highest ideal of what is wise and great and kind; and the Mango-grove is surrounded to him with all the poetry, and is associated with all the tender memories! which to the devout and earnest Christian are wrapped I up in such names as Bethany or the Mount of Olives. While impressed therefore with the knowledge of having come far short of my ideal, I feel there is for these reasons some justification in asking a kindly consideration for this first volume of English translations from the prose portions of the Pâli Pitakas.
T. W. RHYS DAVIDS.
Brick Court, Temple,
August, 1880.
