"The Garden of Vision" (1929) is a story of Japanese Zen Buddhism and martial arts situated in Britain and Japan in the 1920's. The chief character is an English woman who joins the school. "L. Adams Beck" was one of the pen-names of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a Canadian writer who wrote most of her 30 books in the last 10 years of her life. She was also known as Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams. She was a staunch Buddhist and strict vegetarian, highly critical of the materialism of the West. Her works include "The Ninth Vibration" (1922), "Dreams and Delights" (1922), "The Perfume of the Rainbow" (1923) and others.