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of Indianists who have kept up and advanced the noblest 

 traditions of French science. His Vedic investigations 

 as laid down in his "La Religion Vedique d'apres les 

 hymnes du Rig- Veda" (3 volumes, 1878-83, to which 

 was added a fourth volume of indices by the American 

 Indologist Maurice Bloomfield in 1897), "tudes sur 

 le lexique du Rig-Veda" (1884), "Quarante hymnes du 

 Rig- Veda traduits et commentes" (1895), and in his 

 numerous essays touch not only the form and vocab- 

 ulary of these venerable documents, but also their essen- 

 tial substance, and indicate what further products of 

 his learning we might have expected, had notBergaigne's 

 life been cut short untimely by a mountaineering accident 

 in the French Alps. 



A third great name which, with those of Senart and 

 Bergaigne, came to high distinction in the seventies, is 

 that of the Alsatian, Auguste BARTH (1834-1916), who 

 for many years sent to the "Revue critique d'Histoire 

 et de Litterature" contributions of such solid worth as to 

 make him an authority of the highest standing in the 

 world of scholars. Oral teaching from a professor's 

 chair was not feasible for him, on account of deafness, 

 but he was in fact, to a host of younger men, a teacher, 

 lovable, loved, respected, and followed. His "Religions 

 de 1'Inde" (1879; English ed., London, 1882; Russian 

 ed., Moscow, 1896) traces the development of this 

 mighty factor of Hindu life from the earliest Vedic 

 times to those of modern reformers. The recognized 

 importance of his results is due to the fact that they are 

 drawn directly from the original sources, not taken at 

 second hand. For Indianists, Barth was the court of 

 highest appeal. His "Bulletins," published from 1880 

 to 1902 in the "Revue de PHistoire des Religions, "consti- 

 tute at once a history of the progress of Indian studies 

 and a wonderfully clear and convenient resume of their 



