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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.-As an extra number of this Journal, Prof. Grierson will publish "Materials for the Modern Literary History of Hindustan." The volume will contain notices of over nine hundred authors, dating from about the year 700 A.D. down to the present day, of whom only about seventy have been dealt with by Garcin de Tassy. The Geographical limits of the work are Rajputana and the Gangetic plain as far East as Bhagalpur. It deals only with vernacular authors who wrote in a stage of language later than that which is commonly considered as Präkṛit, and excludes from consideration those who only wrote in the exotic Urdu. Many of the nine hundred names mentioned are, of course, little more than entries in a catalogue, but the author has succeeded in collecting particulars hitherto unpublished in any European language concerning a large proportion.

HINDU PANTHEISM. A revised edition will shortly be published of the Manual of Hindu Pantheism, which appeared seven years ago in Trübner's Oriental Series. During the interval that has elapsed, the author has devoted his leisure time to the study of the Upanishad literature in India, and has thereby been enabled to improve the book. The notes have been carefully corrected, and, in many cases, enlarged. The original text, too, which forms the basis of the work, has been collated with several manuscripts, and the translations modified accordingly. English students will probably find this to be one of the most useful aids to a right understanding of Vedantic doctrines.

PALI.-Three native works on Pali Grammar not printed before, we believe, have recently appeared in Ceylon

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1. Padasadhana, an ancient work by the Monk Piyadassi, Sastradhara Press, Colombo.

2. Çabdabindu, with Sinhalese Commentary. 3. Balappabodhana, with Pali Commentary.

The last two were published at the Vidyodaya College, Colombo.

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We have also just received the prospectus of the Eighth International Congress of Orientalists which will be held at Stockholm and at Christiania from the 2nd to the 13th of September, 1889, under the patronage of His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, Oscar II. Full particulars will be given in our next issue, and we now only mention that it will consist of the following Sections, in which English, French, German, Italian, Latin and the Eastern Languages will be admissible :

1. Semitic and of the Islam.
2. Arian.

3. African, including Egyptology.
4. Central Asia and the Far East.
5. Malay and Polynesia.

American Notes.

AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE.-The American Philosophical Society's Committee appointed to consider an International Language have made a Supplementary Report in which they answer Mr. Alexander J. Ellis's strictures on their proposal for a Congress to consider the question. The same Supplementary report also reviews all works that have appeared on the subject since the first report was issued, and reiterates the radical objections to Volapük as a universal language. Up to the present about twenty societies have expressed their willingness to send representatives to a Congress should one be convened.

PROFIT SHARING.-The problem how to bring employers of labour and their employés into relations of harmony and mutual helpfulness is one of the great questions of the day. The favour with which leading economists, at home and abroad, regard the method of a division of profits between the two parties to the labour contract, as a means to this end, is well known. John Stuart Mill, Henry Fawcett, Francis A. Walker, and Carroll D. Wright-to name no others-consider this system of industrial partnership" worthy of wide and careful trial. Thus far there has been a deficiency of full and exact information for those interested. Mr. Nicholas P. Gilman, editor of the Literary World of Boston, has made a thorough examination of the subject, and a book will soon be published by him (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) entitled "Profit Sharing between Employer and Employé a Study in the Evolution of the Wages System." The book contains an exhaustive account of the application of the method to a great variety of industries in France, Germany, England and the United States, interesting biographical sketches of Leclaire, Godin, Boucicaut and other noted industrialists who have developed it, an examination of the results actually achieved, and a candid argument in favour of its further extension. The volume will undoubtedly attract wide attention as the first comprehensive work on Profit Sharing in our language. Written in popular style, and giving an impartial statement of all the facts of the matter down to the present year, it should not be confounded with the numerous books on the "labour question " which propose, with no little crudeness, impracticable remedies for the entire regeneration of modern society. The work is a study, on the inductive method, of what has been done on one line of social improvement, and it keeps closely to this line.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION.-A very important "Circular of Information" (No. 5, 1888) has been issued by the Hon. H. R. Dawson, the Commissioner of Education for the U. S. A. It is by the Rev. A. D. Mayo on Industrial Education in the South." The author of this "Circular" has been engaged for the past eight years in the cause of education through all the Southern States, though not in any official or government capacity. From his connection with and knowledge of the scholastic needs of the Southern States, he was invited by the

Bureau of Education to compile this monograph, which was afterwards ordered by Congress to be printed. The Rev. Mr. Mayo commences by stating the purposes of the essay; he then discusses the conditions of American and Southern life, the Southern resources, rising industries, the disadvantages of the existing labour system, illiteracy, etc., showing general education to be a prime need. He gives a statement of Southern achievements in popular education, industrial schools, manual and industrial training in public schools and private academies, with the means and methods of promoting and improving such training. The Appendixes contain views and descriptions of the leading Southern educational institutions which have adopted industrial training.

THE SOURCES OF THE MISSISSIPPI.-Since our paragraph appeared on Captain Glazier's claims to the discovery of the real source of the Mississippi, we have received a report read before the Minnesota Historical Society, by the Hon. H. James Baker, on the "Sources of the Mississippi; their Discoverers Real and Pretended." In this report Captain Glazier's exploration is stated to have been a mere pleasure excursion, and at the time he made it the Government surveyors of the United States were actually corroborating the discoveries of Schoolcraft and Nicollet. From all reliable data at hand it appears that Captain Glazier re-discovered Elk Lake, a wellknown sheet of water, and named it after himself.

TENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. The United States Tenth Census of 1880 is now rapidly approaching completion. Volumes 17 and 19 are now before us. The former consists of Part II. of the Water-Power of the United States, with articles on the Water-Power of the North-West, and of the Mississippi and some of its tributaries, by James L. Greenleaf, C.E., etc. The Water-Power of the region tributary to the Mississippi River on the West below Dubuque, and the Ohio River basin and the Ohio State Canals by Dwight Porter, Ph.B., etc. Mr. W. G. Elliot, C.E., etc., etc., contributes an article on the Water-Supply of certain cities and towns of the United States. The latter volume, compiled by Mr. George E. Waring, jun., contains Part II. of the Social Statistics of Cities divided into two parts; part one being on the New England and Middle States, and part two on the Southern and Western States. The historical sketches in this volume of the District of Columbia are particularly interesting; the ground now occupied by the city of Georgetown was visited in 1608 by Captain John Smith, the famous navigator, who met the Indians in conference. The town was laid out on February 27th, 1752, in eighty lots, with streets and lanes, and was named in honour of King George the Second of England, by his faithful subjects the colonists. The city of Washington (of magnificent distances) was a creation of a later date, an Act being approved by President Washington, July 16th, 1790, and in 1791 Commissions were appointed to superintend the affairs of the new city.

JOSEPH JONES, OF VIRGINIA. The letters of comparatively unimportant personages often throw considerable light on the history of the times in which they lived, but Joseph Jones, of Virginia, whose letters the Hon. Worthington C. Ford, of the Department of State, Washington, has edited, cannot be said to have been an unimportant person, although, as the editor of his "Letters" says, few details of his life are accessible. He was born in 1727, and became a representative of King George County, Va., in the Colonial House of Burgesses. At the outbreak of the War of Independence he was a member of the Committee of Safety, and in 1776 served in the Virginia Convention. In 1777 he represented his native State in the Continental Congress, but this he resigned to accept the position of Judge of the General Court (January 23, 1778). He served in Congress again from 1780 to 1783. In 1788 he was again a member of the Virginia Convention and in 1789 he again served on the bench. His death took place October 28, 1805. The letters that Mr. Ford has edited cover a period of ten years, being from 1777 to 1787, and are to Washington, Madison, Jefferson. The first letter to Washington relates to a Captain Munroe and recruiting in Virginia. It is of interest to note that this Captain James Munroe was the son of Elizabeth, the sister of Joseph Jones, the writer of the letters, and Spence Munroe, and this Captain Munroe afterwards became President of the United States. The last letter in the volume from Jones to Madison relates to the continued

session of Convention and to the decision of the Legislature of Virginia to accept the payment of the taxes in tobacco in consequence of the scarcity of specie, and the inadvisability of issuing more paper money. Only 250 copies have been printed of this highly interesting collection of letters.

BRITISH GUIANA.-Timehri," the journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, vol. ii. new series, part 2, December, 1888, contains several papers on this interesting colony, which we have no doubt when fully explored will become one of the great gold-producing countries of the world. We believe Governor Schomburg was the first writer who called attention to the resources of this wonderfully fertile portion of South America.

A CODE OF MORALS.-Mr. John S. Hittell, author of several works on California, has brought out with the Bancroft Company, San Francisco, "A Code of Morals," in which he says he has attempted to do for his own age what Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius did for theirs. He divides his "Code" into "Individual Duties," "Social Duties," Industrial Duties," "Political Duties," and "Religious Duties."

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GEOLOGY." Shall we Teach Geology?" which is a question that has been lately coming to the front in the systems of modern education, is the title of a small volume by Prof. Alex. Winchell, A.M., F.G.S.A., etc., published by Messrs. S. C. Griggs & Co., of Chicago. We presume geology is a subject which will at some future day form part of the curriculum of the schools; but whilst Geography, the science of the Earth's surface, is so much neglected, we can scarcely expect the interior to be studied. We believe that writing lately from one of the universities some one said: "We have just established a Chair of Geography, but as yet we have no books, no maps, and no lecture-hall." A literary note before us says:-"A contest has long been waged among educators as to which is of greater practical value in education, the Classics or the Sciences. For many years the friends of the Classics had it pretty much their own way, but of late the Scientists have been putting in some strong pleas in behalf of their side of the case. The latest of these, about to be issued in book form by S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago, is by the well-known author and scientist, Dr. Alexander Winchell, University of Michigan, and is entitled, 'Shall we Teach Geology? Few, if any, American writers are better qualified for discussing this question than Dr. Winchell. While his treatise is a special plea for teaching Geology in the public schools, it is intended to cover the whole ground of contest between the Sciences and the Classics, and hence promises to be of great interest not only to teachers, but to all who are interested in observing the tendencies of modern education."

CURRENCY OF THE U.S.-The annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency to the Second Session of the Fiftieth Congress of the United States, December 1, 1888, consists of two volumes, the second-a volume of over eleven hundred pages-is a tabular account of the condition of the National Banks, up to Thursday, October 4th, 1888. From the numerical index of banks which, with an index of towns, will be found in this volume, we learn that 3924 have been registered since the national banking system came into operation.

SHAKESPERIANA.This Maganzine, which is just commencing its sixth volume, will still be published by the Leonard Scott Publication Company, who have now removed back to New York, but it has now become the acknowledged organ of the New York Shakespeare Society.

European Notes.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTICISM (London, George Redway, York Street, Covent Garden.)-Three or four years ago Baron Carl du Prel, Doctor of Philosophy, published a work on Physical Philosophy, treating on dreams, somnambulism, memory, and the doctrine of the soul, which attracted the attention of Edward von Hartmann, who in his work on the "Moderne Probleme" devotes a considerable space to the review of Du Prel's "Philosophy of Mysticism, "which is the English title of the above work, and at the same time a literal translation as near as possible of that of the German volume. Mr. C. C. Massey has translated this work in two volumes containing over six hundred pages. It will be a

welcome addition to the literature of psychical research, a subject which, since the Psychical Society has been established, has attracted many inquiring students.

PRACTICAL HERALDRY, (London, George Redway, York Street, Covent Garden).-Charles Worthy, Esq., who was for some time principal assistant to the late Somerset Herald, has issued an excellent little work on "Practical Heraldry, or an Epitome of English Armoury," which is a useful manual of the subject. It contains 124 illustrations to the text from designs by the author.

A DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY.-Mr. E. J. Wall, who contributed to the "Amateur Photographer" a Dictionary of Photography, which ran through a series of numbers of that journal, has now revised it, brought it down to the present time, and published it with Messrs. Hazel, Watson, and Viney (Limited), Long Acre. Of course such a book is best tested by practice, but from looking through it we should think it is a very good encyclopædia of the photographic art, and contains matter that to procure in some other forms would cost one hundred times more than the cost of this Dictionary.

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PROBLEMS OF THE HIDDEN LIFE.-This is the title of a volume of essays on the ethics of spiritual evolution by 'Pilgrim," published by George Redway, Covent Garden. It is dedicated to all lovers of the perfect." This is one of the occult books now so fashionable, but we really do not see that it brings us any nearer to perfection or to Nirvana, of which it discourses. Some of the matter in it is good, especially the quotations from the poems of Sir Edwin Arnold.

THE GOVERNMENT YEAR BOOK. -Under this title Mr. Fisher Unwin has published a very useful reference annual edited by Mrs. Lewis Sergeant. A record of the forms and methods of government of Great Britain, her colonies and foreign countries. The Government Year Book covers somewhat the same ground as the Statesman's Year Book, is carefully compiled, and costs very little more than half the price of that publication.

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AMUSING CHAP-BOOKS.-Mr. Robert Hays Cunningham has made a collection of Amusing Prose Chap-Books, chiefly of the last century (Glasgow, Thos. D. Morrison). eighteenth century might be called the chap-book era, and the trade employed thousands of producers and distributors and, it appears to have been a profitable trade, as one publisher is known to have retired with a fortune of £30,000 when money was more valuable and its purchasing power much greater than at the present time. In this collection of Chap-books we find some old favourites such as "The King and the Cobbler," "Jack the Giant Killer," "Bamfylde Moore Carew," "Dick Whittington," "Blue Beard," " Robin Hood." etc. Mr. Cunningham contemplates making a collection of Poetical Chap-books. Such collections are the means of preserving the folk-lore of our ancestors which would be unavoidably lost to posterity were it not for such collectors and editors as Mr. Cunningham, Chap-books having been the literature of the lower classes, the future historian has through them an insight into their tastes brought readily to his hand.

THE BOOK LOVERS' LIBRARY (Elliot Stock).-The new volume of this Library is by Mr. Edward Smith, being notes on the books and opinions in the last three centuries of "Foreign Visitors in England, and what they have thought of us." This should certainly not be one of the least interesting volumes of this elegant little series.

Colonial Notes.

GOLD FIELDS OF VICTORIA.-By the Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ending September, 1888, we find that the gold yield was 157,271 oz. 2 dwt. 14 grs., being an increase of 7077 oz. 19 dwt. 14 grs. on the previous quarter, but 2831 oz. 3 dwt. 17 grs. less than the corresponding quarter of last year. The present Report contains views of the extended Hustler's Freehold Co.'s Mine, Sandhurst; the Loganstone, near Beechworth, and Granit Tors; The Old Man; Pilot Ranges; -three notable views in the gold-mining districts of the colony.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS.-An attempt at a bibliography of Cyprus was made by Mr. C. Delaval Cobham in 1886, and he now sends us a revised and enlarged second edition, from the prefatory note to which we quote the following: "I have attempted to register in these pages the titles of all books treating of Cyprus, its people, history, numismatics, epigraphy and language, of which I have found any trace. I have included the papers most important to antiquaries and linguists which have appeared in Magazines or in the Transactions of learned Societies; also the few books printed in the Island. I have added a list of local newspapers, of Parliamentary papers, and of the fugitive pieces which record a controversy, not yet extinguished, concerning the "transformations and migrations of Cypriot antiquities purchased from Signor L. P. di Cesnola by the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York." We have tested the accuracy and reliability of his entries carefully, and can confidently recommend the little pamphlet as a safe guide to the literature of the Island. Mr. Cobham has certainly performed a very praiseworthy and painstaking piece of work.

Books Received.

Spelin. A Universal Language by Prof. George Bauer, of Agram, Austria, translated by Chas. T. Strauss, New York. -Dodd, Mead, and Co.'s Catalogue of Books from the presses of William Caxton, Wynken de Worde, and Richard Pynson.Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, October, 1888.-Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Prof. A. Agassiz), 1887-8. - Babylonian and Oriental Record. Vol. III. No. II.-Gold Fields of Victoria. Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ending June, 1888. - Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S.A., December 1, 1888, Volume I.-Algunas Obras Raras Sobre la Lengua Cumanagota.-Volumen I. Arte Bocabulario Doctrina Christiana y Catecismo de la Lengua de Cumana, compuestos por el R. P. Fr. Francisco de Tauste. Publicados de nuevo por Julio Platzmann.-Volumen II. Principios y Reglas de la Lengua Cumanagota compuestos por el R. P. Fr. Manuel de Yangues con un Diccionario. Publicados de nuevo por Julio Platzmann.-Volumen III. Arte y Testoro de la Lengua Cumanagota por Fr. Matias Ruiz Blanco. Publicado de nuevo por Julio Platzmann.-Volumen IV. Confessonario Mas Lato en Lengua Cumanagota, por Fr. Diego de Tapia. Publicado de nuevo por Julio Platzmann.-Volumen V. Confessonario Mas Breve en Lengua Cumanagota, por Fr. Diego de Tapa. Publicado de nuevo per Julio Platzmann (Teubner, Leipzig)-The Anglo-Indian Codes. Edited by Whitley Stokes, D.C.L. Vol. II. Adjective Law (Clarendon Press, Oxford and London).-La Religion en Chine. A propos du Dernier livre de M. A. Reville. Par M. C. de Harlez. (Siffer & Cie., Gand).-'Ilinu hal. A Manual of the Doctrine and Practice of Islam. Translated from the Turkish by Claude Delaval Cobham, B.C.L., etc., Commissioner of Larnaca. (Nicosia).

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications should be addressed to the Editor of "Trübner's Record," 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C., and they should be accompanied by the sender's name and address (not necessarily for publication). Every care will be taken with MSS., but the Editor cannot hold himself responsible for rejected communications, which-if to be returned to the sender should be accompanied by postage. MS. should be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. Books for review should be addressed to the Editor.

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American Literature.

American Ancestry; giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line, of Americans whose Ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, 1876. V. 3. 8vo. cloth. Albany (N. Y.). £110s. American Genealogies. Supplement to the "Index to American Genealogies" issued in 1886. 8vo. paper, pp. 61. Albany (N. Y.). 68.

Andrews (G.) - Genealogy of the Andrews of Taunton and Stoughton, Mass., Descendants of John and Hannah Andrews, of Boston, Mass., 1656 to 1886. 8vo. cloth, pp. 86. Washington. 98.

Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events, Index to Volumes for 1876 to 1887 inclusive. 8vo. cloth, pp. 144. New York. 188. Bancroft (H. H.-History of the Pacific States of North America, v. 18. California, v. 6. 1848-1859. Svo. cloth, pp. xi. and 787. San Francisco. £1 48. Becker (A.)-Tempted of the Devil; Passages in the Life of a Kabbalist. A Story retold from the German by M. W. Macdowall. 12mo. cloth, pp. 330. Boston. 78. 6d.

Bliss (W. R.)—Colonial Times on Buzzard's Bay. Svo. cloth. Boston. 10s.

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Sailor in Active Service on Merchant Vessel and Man-ofWar. 8vo. cloth, pp. 336. Boston. 12s. 6d. Cocker (W. J.-The Government of the United States. 12mo. cloth, pp. 274. New York. Davidson (J. W.)-The Florida of to-day. A Guide for Tourists and Settlers. 12mo. cloth, pp. 254. Illustrated. New York. 68. 6d.

Digby (W.) Digby's Journal. The British Invasion from the North The Campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne from Canada, 1776-7, with the Journal of Lieut. W. Digby. Edited with Historical Notes by James Phinney Baxter. 8vo. cloth, pp. 412. Albany (N.Y.). £1 4s.

Fallows (S., D.D.)-A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Autonyms; with an Appendix embracing a Dictionary of Briticisms, Americanisms, Colloquial Phrases, etc., in Current Use; the Grammatical Uses of Prepositions and Prepositions Discriminated; a List of Homonyms and Homophonous Words; a Collection of Foreign Phrases, and a Complete List of Abbreviations and Contractions Used in Writing and Printing. 12mo. cloth, pp. 512. New York.

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Fay (E. A.) Concordance of the Divina Com

media. 8vo. cloth. Boston. £2 28.

Fisher (H. L.)-Olden Times; or, Pennsylvania Rural Life some Fifty Years Ago, and other Poems. 8vo. cloth, pp. x. and 472. Illustrated. York (Pa.). 12s. Foster (F. P., M.D.)-Illustrated Encyclopædic Medical Dictionary; being a Dictionary of the Technical Terms used by Writers on Medicine and the Collateral Sciences in the Latin, English, French, and German Languages. 4to. cloth. In 4 Vols. Vol. I. New York. £2 58. (by subscription).

Frost (J.)-The Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland; comprising their Personal and Political History; bronght down to the present time by Harry W. French. 12mo. cloth, pp. 547. Boston. 78. 6d.

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Hinman (Russell)-Eclectic Physical Geography. 12mo. cloth, pp. 382. Illustrated. Cincinnati. 78. 6d. Holcomb (Mrs. H. H)-Bits about India. 16mo. cloth, pp. 272. Illustrated. Philadelphia. 58. House (E. H.)-Yone Santo; a Child of Japan. 12mo. cloth, pp. 285. New York. Lietze (E.) Modern Heliographic Processes. A Manual of Instruction in the Art of Reproducing Drawings, Engravings. Manuscripts, etc., by the Action of Light; for the Use of Engineers, Architects, Draughtsmen, Artists, and Scientists. With 32 Illustrations on Wood and 10 Specimen Heliograms. 8vo. cloth, pp. viii. and 143. New York. 158.

Liggens (Rev. J.)-The Great Value and Success of Foreign Missions. With an Introduction by Arthur T. Pierson, D.D. 12mo. cloth, pp. xi. and 137. New York. 48. Lockwood (S., Ph.D.) — Readings in Natural History. Animal Memoirs, Part I. Mammals. Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. xviii. and 318. Illustrated. New York. 38. Lockwood (S., Ph.D.) Readings in Natural History. Animal Memoirs, Part II. Birds. Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. viii. and 397. Illustrated. New York. 3s. Lowell (P.) The Soul of the Far East. 12mo. cloth, pp. 226. Boston. 68. 6d.

A thoughtful review of the individuality, family life, language, art, religion, and imagination of the people of Eastern Asia, Japan, and Corea.

Lunt (H.)-Across Lots. 12mo. cloth, pp. 253.

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Murfree (Miss M. N.)-The Despot of Broomsedge Cove. 12mo. cloth, pp. 490. Boston. 6s. 6d. Nestle (E.)-Syriac Grammar; with Bibliography, Chrestomathy, and Glossary. Second enlarged and improved edition of the "Brevis Linguæ Syriacæ grammatica ;" from the German by A. R. S. Kennedy. 12mo. paper, pp. 195. New York. 15s.

Owen (Catherine) - Progressive Housekeeping. Keeping House Without Knowing How, and Knowing How Boston. 12mo. cloth, pp. 180. to Keep House Well. Patten (S. N.)-The Stability of Prices.

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paper, pp. 72. Baltimore. 48. Poole (W. F.) and Fletcher (W. I.)-Poole's Index to Periodical Literature. The First Supplement, Jan. 1882, to Jan. 1887. Royal 8vo. cloth, pp. 483. Boston. £1 168. Pushkin (A.)-Poems; from the Russian, with Introduction and Notes by Ivan Panin. 16mo. cloth, pp.

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Religious Condition of New York City; Addresses made at a Christian Conference held in Chickering Hall, New York City, Dec. 3, 4, and 5, 1888, by Revs. J. M. King, R. S. MacArthur, C. H. Parkhurst, and others. 12mo. paper, pp. 196. New York. 2s. 6d. Richards (W. C.)-The Apostle of Burma. A Missionary Epic in Commemoration of the Centennial of the Birth of Adoniram Judson. 12mo. cloth, pp. 146. Boston. 58.

Riley (J. W.)-Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury. 12mo. cloth, pp. 245. Indianapolis. 68. 6d.

Rives (Amélie)-The Quick or the Dead. 12mo. cloth. Philadelphia. 58.

Salisbury (J. H., M.D.)-The Relation of Alimentation and Disease. 8vo. cloth, pp. xi. and 332. New York. £1 58.

Simonds (W. E.)-A Digest of Patent Cases; embracing all Patent Cases decided in the Federal and State Courts from 1789 to 1888. Svo. sheep, pp. 940. New

York. £3.

Stark (J. H.) and Green (S. A.)-Antique Views

of ye Towne of Boston. 4to. cloth, pp. 378. Illustrated with Rare Maps, Old Prints, etc. Boston. £1 10s. Stedman (E. C.)-The Star Bearer. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. 12mo. cloth. Boston. 68. 6d. Stedman (E. C.) and Hutchinson (Ellen M.)-A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. In 10 Vols. Vols. 7-10. 8vo. cloth. New York. 15s. each.

Thompson (M.)-The Story of Louisiana. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgmam. 8vo. cloth, pp. 337. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Wilcox (Ella Wheeler) - Poems of Pleasure. 12mo. cloth. New York. 5s. Wilcox (Ella W.)-Poems of Passion. Edition de luxe. 4to. cloth. Illustrated. New York. £1 18. Wilkie (F. B.)-Pen and Powder. 12mo. cloth,

383. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Young (C. A.)-A Text-book of General Astronomy for Colleges and Scientific Schools. 8vo. cloth, pp. 551. Boston and London. 10s. 6d.

European Literature.

Amélineau (E.)

Contes et Romans de l'Egypte chrétienne. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. lxxxvii. 193 et 263. Paris, 1888. 108.

Babelon (E.)-Manuel d'Archéologie orientale. ChaldéeAssyrie-Perse-Syrie-Judée-Phénicie-Carthage. 4to. sewed. Paris, 1888. 38. 6d

Bouchard (J.)-Projet de plantation de tabac à Sumatra (Indes néerlandaises). 8vo. pp. 19. Angoulême, 1889. Carnoy (E. Henry) et Jean Nicolaides.-Traditions de l'Asie Mineure. 12mo. cloth, pp. 370. Paris, 1889. 78. 6d.

** Les littératures populaires de toutes les nations. Tome xxxviii.

Carnoy (H.) et J. Nicolaides-Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure. 8vo. Paris, 1889. 7s. 6d. Catalogue (un premier) des manuscrits grecs du cardinal Ridolfi. Publié par H. Omont. 8vo. pp. 18. (Extract.) Paris, 1888.

Ciampoli (D.)-Letterature slave. I. Bulgari, Serbocroati, Yugo-Russi. 8vo. pp. 4, 144. Milano, 1888. The second volume, Russi-Polacchi-Boemi, in the press. Darmesteter (J.)-Lettres sur l'Inde. A la frontière afghane. 8vo. pp. xxx. 362. Paris, 1888.

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Groff (W. N.) Diverses études. I. Le Pronom égyptien. II. Note sur Jaqob-el et Josep-el. 4to. pp. 10. Paris, 1888.

Guillaume (P.)-Istorio de sanct Poncz. Mystère en langue provençale du XVe sicèle. Publié d'après un manuscrit de l'époque. Roy. 8vo. pp. xv. 244. (Extract.) Paris,

1889.

Hiao-king. Vide Rosny.

Histoire de Mar Jab-Alaha, Patriarche et de Raban Sauma. Demy 8vo. sewed, pp. xii. 188. Paris, 1888. 7s. *Chaldean text in the characters.

Houtsma (M. Th.)-Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de Seldjoucides. Vol. II. Histoire de Seldjoucides de l'Iraq par al-Bondârî, d'après Imâd-ad-din al-Kâtib al Is-fahâni. Texte Arabe. 8vo. pp. 1. 324. Leiden, 1889. 9s. Issaverdens (J.)—Histoire de l'Arménie. Enrichie de nombreuses figures exécutees aux frais de J. Arathoon de de Batavia. Two vols. 16mo. pp. 397 and 493. Venice, 1888.

Kessler (K.)-Mani. Forschungen über die Manichäische Religion. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichende Religionsgeschichte des Orients. Vol. I. Voruntersuchungen und Quellen. Roy. 8vo. sewed, pp. xxvii. 407. Berlin, 1889. 14s. Kiessling (J.)-Untersuchungen über Dämmerungserscheinungen. Zur Erklärung der nach dem Krakatau Ausbruch Beobachteten atmosphärisch-optischen Störung. Mit neun Farbendrucktafeln nach Aquarellen von Prof. Dr. Pechnel Loesche. 4to. cloth, pp. viii. 172. Hamburg, 1888.

£1 168.

Kohler (J.)-Rechtsvergleichende Studien über islamitisches Recht, das Recht der Berbern, das chinesische Recht und das Recht auf Ceylon. Svo. sewed, pp. 252. Berlin, 1889. 68.

Lanessan (J. L. de)-L'Indo-Chine française. Etude politique, économique et administrative sur la Cochinchine, le Cambodge, l'Annam et le Tonkin. 8vo. sewed, pp. viii. 760. With 5 coloured maps. Paris, 1888. 15s. Loise (Ferd.)-Histoire de la poésie en rapport avec la civilisation dans l'antiquité et chez les peuples de race latine. Vols. 1 et 2. 8vo. Paris, 1889.

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