692 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



SYRIAC. 



Robert H. Beattie described tbe recent changes in life in Syria and 

 the new opportnnities they bring to American scholarship and industry. 



Syriac literature has been enriched by the discovery and description 

 of a number of unedited texts. 



Isaac H. Hall described a manuscript recently acquired by the Union 

 Theological Seminary of New York, consisting of the service of obse- 

 quies, and introduced by the ritual of the washing of the dead, publish- 

 ing portions of the text with translation; a manuscript of the Peshitto 

 four Gospels, the i)roperty of Beloit College, Wisconsin, accompanied 

 by a manuscript of the traditions of the Apostles, text and translation 

 of which are given. 



R. J. H. Gottheil published a manuscript containing a fragment of a 

 Porphyry in the Berlin Library; a Syriac geographical chart; text of 

 Berlin manuscript tract on the Syriac conjunctions and a collation of a 

 text of a portion of the Targums in a map or manuscript in the Library 

 of the Temple Emanuel, New York. 



G. F. Moore called attention to the fact that four of the British Mu- 

 seum Hebrew manuscripts with the Targum recently acq uired from Yemen 

 are in this same hand, and together form a complete Bible ; also to the 

 excellent character of the Targum text. 



The New York Tribune of August 12, 1888, gave a description of a 

 Syrian commencement and the scenes attendant on the closing of the 

 American College at Beirut. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORIENTAL LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES 



DURING 1888. 



Adler, Cyrus. Semitic Languages ia the Eucyclopajdia Britanuica. Proc. Amer. 



Phil. Assn., xix session, pp. xiv-xvii. 

 Discussion on the study of modern oriental languages. Trans. Mod. Lang. 



Assn., vol. Ill, p. xviii. 

 Review of Friedr. Delitzsch, Prolegomena eines neuen hebraisch-aranuiischen 



Worterbuchs. American Hebrew. Jan. 20. 



A Babylonian Expedition. American (Philadelphia). March 24. 



Announcement of a proposed complete edition of the works of Edward Hincks, 



with a biographical introduction and portrait of the author. Presented on behalf 



of the Semitic Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University. Proc. Amer. Orient. 



Soc. May, pp. xxii-xxvii. 

 Note on the collection of Oriental Antiquities in theU. S. National Museum at 



Washington. Proc. Amer. Orient. Soc. May, pp. xxvii-xxviii. 

 Note on Babylonian Inscriptions discovered at Tell-Amarna and now in the 



British Museum. American (Philadelphia) June 16. 

 The views of the Babylonians concerning life after death. Andover Pevieiv, 



July, vol. X, pp. 92-101. 



Assyrian verbs tertiaj iufirmte. Proc. Amer. Orient. Soc. Oct., pp. xcviu-c. 



TheU. S. National Museum exhibit of Oriental Antiquities at the recent Cin- 



cinuati Exposition. Proc. Amer. Orient. Soc. Oct. pp. i-iii. 



Note on the proposed edition of the life and writings of Edward Hincks. Proc. 



Amer, Orient. Soc. Oct., pp. ci-civ. 



