:LT>iCDI CD=00CDCOTROBNERS ORIENTAL SERIES."Aknowledgeofthecommonplace,atleast,ofOrientalliterature,philosophy,andreligionis asnecessarytothegeneralreader of thepresentdayasanacquaintancewiththeLatinandGreek classics wasagenerationorsoago.Immense strides havebeenmadewithinthepresent centuryin thesebranchesoflearning;Sanskrithasbeen broughtwithintherangeofaccuratephilology,anditsinvaluableancientliteraturethoroughlyinvestigated;thelanguageandsacredbooksoftheZoroastrians havebeenlaidbare; Egyptian,Assyrian,andotherrecords of theremotepasthavebeendeciphered,andagroupofscholarsspeakof still more reconditeAccadian and Hittitemonuments;buttheresultsof allthescholarshipthat hasbeendevotedtothesesubjectshavebeenalmost inaccessibletothepublicbecausetheywerecontainedforthemostpartinlearnedorexpensiveworks,orscatteredthroughoutthe numbersofscientificperiodicals.Messrs.THUBNER &Co.,inaspiritofenterprisewhichdoestheminfinitecredit,havedeterminedtosupplytheconstantly-increasingwant,and togiveinapopular, or,atleast,acomprehensiveform,all thismassofknowledgetothe world." Times.NewEditioninpreparation,Post8vo,withMap,THEINDIAN EMPIRE:ITSHISTORY, PEOPLE,ANDPRODUCTS.Beingarevisedformofthearticle"India,"inthe"ImperialGazetteer,"remodelledintochapters,broughtuptodate,andincorporatingthegeneralresultsoftheCensusof 1881.BYW. W.HUNTER, C.I.E., LL.D.,Director-GeneralofStatisticstotheGovernmentofIndia."The articleIndia,in VolumeIV.,is the touchstone of thework,andprovesclearlyenoughthesterlingmetalofwhich it iswrought.Itrepresentstheessenceof theioovolumeswhich contain theresultsof the statisticalsurveyconductedbyDr. Hunterthroughouteachof the240districts ofIndia. Itis,moreover theonlyattemptthathaseverbeenmadetoshowhowtheIndianpeoplehavebeenbuiltupand theevidencefrom theoriginalmaterials has beenfor thefirsttime sifted andexaminedbythelightof the local research in which the authorwas for so loneengaged."Times.TRUBNER SORIENTALSERIES.THEFOLLOWING WORKSHAVEALREADYAPPEARED:ThirdEdition, post8vo, cloth, pp.xvi.428, pricei6s.ESSAYSONTHESACREDLANGUAGE,WRITINGS,ANDRELIGIONOFTHEPARSIS.BYMARTINHAUG,PH.D.,LateoftheUniversitiesofTubingen, Gottingen,andBonn; Superintendentof SanskritStudies,andProfessorofSanskritin thePoonaCollege.EDITEDANDENLARGEDBY DR. E. W. WEST.Towhichis addedaBiographicalMemoirofthelateDr.HAUGbyProf. E. P. EVANS.I.HistoryoftheResearchesintotheSacredWritingsandReligionof theParsis,fromthe EarliestTimesdowntothePresent.IT.LanguagesoftheParsiScriptures.III. TheZend-Avesta,ortheScriptureoftheParsis.IV. TheZoroastrianReligion,asto itsOriginandDevelopment."Essaysonthe SacredLanguage,Writings,andReligionof theParsis.bytheInteDr.MartinHaug,editedbyDr. E.W.West. Theauthorintended,onhisreturnfromIndia,toexpandthe materials contained in thiswork into acomprehensiveaccount of the Zoroastrianreligion,but thedesignwas frustratedbyhisuntimelydeath. Wehave,however,inaconciseandreadableform,ahistoryoftheresearchesintothesacredwritingsand religion of the Parsisfrom the earliest timesdowntothepresenta dissertation onthelanguagesof the ParsiScriptures,a translationof theZend-Avesta,ortheScriptureof theParsis,andadissertationontheZoroastrianreligion,withespecialreferencetoitsoriginanddevelopment."Times.Post8vo, cloth, pp.viii.176, price 78.6d.TEXTS FROM THE BUDDHIST CANONCOMMONLYKNOWNAS"DHAMMAPADA."WithAccompanyingNarratives.TranslatedfromtheChinesebyS.BEAL,B.A.,ProfessorofChinese,UniversityCollege,London.TheDhammapada,as hithertoknownbythePaliTextEdition,aseditedbyFausboll, byMax MailersEnglish,and Albrecht Webers Germantranslations,consistsonlyoftwenty-six chaptersorsections,whilst theChineseversion,or ratherrecension,as now translatedbyMr.Beal,consists ofthirty-ninesections. 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Their^rcat interest,however,consists in thelightwhichthey throwuponeverydaylife in India at the remoteperiodatwhichtheywerewritten,anduponthe method ofteaching adopted bythe founder of thereligion.The methodemployedwasprincipallyparable,andthesimplicityof thetalesandtheexcellenceofthemoralsInculcated,as well ais thestrangeholdwhichtheyhave retaineduponthemindsofmillion* ofpeople,makethemaveryremarkablestudy."Time*."Mr. Heal,bymakingit accessibleinanEnglishdress,liasadded tothegreatservices heh;usalreadyrendered tothecomparativestudyofreligioushistory." Academy"Valuable asexhibitingthe doctrine of theBuddhists in itspurest,leastadul-lorm,itbringsthe modernreaderfacetofacewiththatsimple creedandruleofconductwhichwonitswayover themindsofmyriads.;uulwhichisnow nominallyprofessedby 145 millions,whohaveoverlaiditsausteresimplicitywithinnumerableoeremoniat, forgottenits maxims,perverteditsteaching,andsoinverteditsleadingf.rmciplethat areligionwhosefounderdenied aGod,nowworshipsthatfounderasagd himself." Scotsman.TRUBNER SORIENTALSERIES.SecondEdition,post8vo,cloth, pp.xxiv.360, pricexos. 6d.THEHISTORYOFINDIANLITERATURE.Bvr ALBRECHTWEBER.TranslatedfromtheSecondGermanEditionbyJOHNMANN,M. A.,andTHEODOKZACHAKIAE,Ph.D.,withthesanctionoftheAuthor.Dr.BuHLER, Inspectorof SchoolsinIndia,writes:"WhenIwasProfessorof OrientalLanguagesinElphinstone College,Ifrequentlyfelt thewantofsuchaworktowhichI couldreferthestudents."Professor CoWELL,ofCambridge,writes : "It will beespeciallyusefulto the students in our Indiancollegesand universities. 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CUST.The Author hasattemptedto fillupavacuum,theinconvenience ofwhichpresseditself on his notice. Much had been written about thelanguagesoftheEastIndies,but the extent of ourpresent knowledgehadnot even beenbroughtto a focus. Itoccurred to himthatitmightbe ofusetootherstopublishin anarrangedformthenoteswhichhehadcollectedfor hisownedification."Suppliesadeficiencywhichhaslongbeenfelt." Times."The book before us is then a valuable contribution tophilologicalscience. Itpassesunderreviewavastnumberoflanguages,anditgives,orprofessestogive,ineverycasethesumandsubstanceoftheopinionsandjudgmentsof tlifi beat-informedwriters."SaturdayRevieio.SecondCorrectedEdition,post8vo,pp.xii.116, cloth, price53.THEBIRTHOFTHEWAR-GOD.APoem. BYKALIDASA.TranslatedfromtheSanskritintoEnglishVersebyRALPHT. 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Few translationsdeserveasecondedition better."Athence-a.m.TRUB.VERSORIENTALSERIES.Post8vo,pp. 432,cloth,pricei6s.ACLASSICAL DICTIONARYOFHINDUMYTHOLOGYANDRELIGION,GEOGRAPHY,HISTORY,ANDLITERATURE.BYJOHNDOWSON, M.R.A.S.,LateProfessorofHindustani,StaffCollege."This notonlyforms anindispensablebookof reference to studentsof Indianliterature,but is alsoofgreat general interest,as itgivesin a concise :indeasilyaccessibleform all that need beknownabout thepersonagesofHindumythologywhose names are sofamiliar,but ofwhomso little is knownoutside the limitedcircleofsavants." Time*."Itisnoslight gainwhensuchsubjectsaretreatedfairlyandfullyinamoderatespace;andweneedonlyaddthatthefewwantswhichwemayhopeto seesuppliedinneweditionsdetractbutlittlefromthegeneralexcellence of Mr.Uowsonswork."SatwdayReview,Post8vo,withViewofMecca, pp.cxii.172, cloth, price93.SELECTIONSFROMTHEKORAN.]Jv EDWARDWILLIAMLANE,Translatorof"TheThousandandOneNights;"&c.,&c.ANewEdition,RevisedandEnlarged,withanIntroductionbySTANLEYLANEPOOLE."... HasbeenIon?esteemed in thiscountryas thecompilationof one of thegreatestArabicscholarsofthetime,thelate Mr.Lane,thewell-knowntranslatorofthe ArabianNights.. . . Thepresenteditor has enhanced the value of hisrelativesworkbydivestingthetextofagreatdeal ofextraneousmatterintroducedbywayofcomment,andprefixinganintroduction." Times."Mr. Poole is both agenerousanda learnedbiographer.. . . 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