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principal results. The modest form in which they ap- 

 peared, as review-articles, is wholly out of keeping 

 with their importance, and they have now been re- 

 published, in two dignified volumes, as a part of his 

 collected works. This is most fitting, for his judg- 

 ments are so sound and well-reasoned as to be of enduring 

 value. 



It is not easy to lose sight of his "Inscriptions san- 

 scrites du Cambodge" (1885), a monument to his skill 

 and industry as an epigraphist, for it is an independent 

 work; but his minor articles form an even greater testi- 

 monial to his vast and accurate learning and sound 

 judgment, although they fail to give an adequate impres- 

 sion of their author's rare gifts, because it is hard to 

 judge them as a whole, scattered as they are through 

 some hundred and fifty volumes of a dozen different 

 periodical publications. To the devotion of his col- 

 leagues, Senart, Foucher, and Finot, we owe the hope that 

 these too will soon be published as part of his collected 

 works. 



Not only Bergaigne, but also his pupil Victor HENRY, 

 another Alsatian, devoted much time and strength to 

 the important task of making text-books. Bergaigne's 

 "Manuel pour etudier la langue sanscrite" (texts, lexicon, 

 grammar) has a host of admirably practical features; 

 and so has Henry's "Elements de Sanscrit classique." 

 The two in collaboration wrote also a hand-book for 

 Vedic study. Henry's manual for Pali, and that of the 

 Danish scholar Dines ANDERSEN, are the best at present 

 available for the sacred language of Buddhism. Henry's 

 interests and activities were very many-sided: he has 

 left us two manuals of comparative grammar, excellent 

 for brevity and avoidance of too great technicality; an 

 austere treatise (in collaboration with the Dutch scholar 

 CALAND) on the ritual (Agnishtoma) ; good literary 



