38 A J drees. [Feb. 



state of the Oriental Publication Fund rendered it necessary to restrict 

 the out-turn. Next year there will be a still greater reduction ; but in 

 future years it may be anticipated that the recovery of the Fund to a 

 solvent condition will enable as to return to our normal issue. Three 

 works were completed during the year; these were the Tarikh-i-Firuz 

 tihdhi of Shams Siraj 'Arif, edited by Maulavi Vilayat Husain of the 

 Calcutta Madrassa ; the Brihannaradiya Parana, edited by Pandit Hrisi- 

 kesa Shastri ; and the Nirukta, edited by Pandit STatyavrata S'amasrami. 



Among the numbers issued, the two following- works deserve 

 conspicuous notice. 



The Ain-i-Akbari of Abulfazl, Translated with Notes by Col. H. S. 

 Jarrett. 2nd Volume. 



The first volume of this translation was published by the late Mr. 

 Blochmann as long ago as 1873, and is deservedly held in very high 

 estimation. At the time of the author's death, it was thought that he 

 had left the remainder of the translation in manuscript; but it could 

 never be discovered, and the Society afterwards made repeated attempts 

 without success to secure the completion of the work. At last Col. 

 Jarrett undertook the task; and the Society is to be congratulated on the 

 completion of the second volume. The third volume is in course of pre- 

 paration, and will probably be finished in another year. Col. Jarrett's 

 translation is made uniform with Mr. Blochmann's, and is similarly 

 furnished with copious notes illustrating the difficulties of the text. 



A Commentary by Abu Zulatriyd Tahyd at-Tibrizi on Ten Ancient 

 Arabic Poems, edited by C. J. Lyall, c. I. e. Fasc. I. 



The ten poems included in this work, which are all pre-islamic, are 

 t he seven M a'allaqat and three other odes, by al-A'sha. an-Nabighah. and 

 'Abid ibn al-Abras respectively. The only one of the ten which has not 

 previously been printed is the last. But the commentary, which is by 

 the same hand as the great commentary on the Hamasah published 

 by Dr. Gr. W. Freytag, has remained till the present incdited. It is 

 now published on the basis of an excellent ancient MS. at Cambridge, 

 eollated with others from Leiden and the British Museum, and with 

 three MSS. of an-Xahhas's commentary upon which Tibrizi chiefly 

 relies. The fasciculus issued this year carries the work to the middle 

 of the poem of 'Antarah : another will complete the text, to which it is 



intended to add indices and a critical apparatus. 



I would also draw attention to the Tibetan publications of the 



_., _ . . Jiibliitt/n/ra Indira series, for which we are in- 



Tibotan Literature. 



debted to IJabu Sara I Chandra Das, C. 1. E., and 



Halm Pratap Chandra (Ihosh. This is a comparatively new held of 



Work, which is arousing considerable interest in Europe. The mass of 



