Much to Learn

World Religions, by Benson Y. Landis. 158 pp. Dutton. $2.95

This, almost childish book is more apt to mislead than to instruct the reader. Its language is frequently a jargon that resembles the babbling of “educators.” In the article on Buddhism, for example, we are told that nirvana “signifies a state of attaining to an expansion of personality,” and that the reign of King Asoka “was marked by many constructive practices.”