[3] A bronze Buddha is seen in the Academy of Design by the rich, idle young hero and the devoted daughter of a man who spent his best years among the Brahmins of India.

The girl's father maker her promise to devote her life and fortune to finding the lost god.

[4] The Bronze Buddha is a story of the search for a particular idol of an ancient East Indian temple, which had for centuries been worshipped by thousands of devotees, but which had become lost during an insurrection.

He searches as vigorously as Sylvia for the Buddha because of the promise that "such shall become the ruler of the earth" who possesses the image.

"[6] It might be said that the main idea of this book is not entirely original; at any rate it resembles very much Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's drama, Nathan the Wise, and through that Giovanni Boccaccio's story of The Three Rings.

[6] The story is a strange medley of the theories of theosophy, occultism, telepathy, and the many other seekings that reach into the unknown.

[4] The combination of Oriental and Occidental life enables the author to present many striking contrasts, without losing the air of mystery and the feeling of Eastern effects.