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his small book, written by the well known scholar B. C. Law, aims to acquaint the readers with the ancient Buddhists thought about sprits and the sprit world. In writing of this book, the author has, for the first time, drawn the upon Hinayana Buddhist literature especially from the Paramatthadipani (The Elucidation of the Highest Meaning) on the spirit stories. There are six chapters in this book and they deal with: Pretas and Pitaras; the first expression of the sprit be belief; the formal expression of belief; physical description of the sprits; sprit stories; and, ends with a chapter on doctrinal bearings of the sprit stories. This book is a reprint of the 1936 edition