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Indo-Europeans, by MEILLET; and on the history of sacri- 

 fice by LOISY. A " public " course on the art of India, by 

 FOUCHER, and one on comparative grammar, by VEN- 

 DRYES, were supplemented by conferences intended to 

 extend over several years; thus, for example, FOUCHER 

 gave in the first year lectures on Sanskrit grammar, 

 which were to be followed the next year by exercises in 

 translation of Sanskrit text and during the following third 

 and fourth years by the study of Vedic and Pali texts; 

 and VENDRYES gave special courses on Irish, Gothic, 

 and Old High German. 



At the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, following 

 about the same order, we find HALEVY offering three 

 one-hour courses on Ethiopic (grammar and texts) and 

 Turanian; SCHEIL, on Assyrian texts; BARTHELEMY, two 

 courses, on Arabic texts and dialects; and LAMBERT 

 three, on Hebrew and Syriac texts. LEVI here offered 

 one course on Sanskrit texts (reading one of Kalidasa's 

 plays) and another on recent publications, his course 

 being supplemented by BLOCH with a course on Bengali 

 texts, and by BACOT with one on Tibetan texts. In 

 Avestan, one course was offered by GAUTHIOT. For the 

 near East, courses on Byzantine philology and history 

 were given by DIEHL and PSICHARI. Courses were also 

 offered by CLERMONT-GANNEAU, on Oriental antiquities 

 (besides a special course on Hebrew archaeology), and by 

 Isidore LEVI, on Alexandrine literature and the History 

 of Israel. 



In the Section des Sciences religieuses, two courses 

 were offered by GRANET (Chinese festivals and mourning 

 texts) ; one on Babylonian and biblical myths, by FOSSEY; 

 two on the cult of Israel and Ecclesiastes, by VERNES; 

 one on Talmudic and Rabbinical Judaism, by Israel 

 LEVI; and two on the Koran and on Persian mysticism, 

 by Clement HUART; while India was represented by two 



