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Deewan of Motanabbi, or of Khajah Hafiz, with the assistance of the dictionaries of Golius, &c. ? 

 If he iloes, I will only say, he will attempt to do that, in which no one ever yet did, or ever shall, 

 succeed; and of this, after a short trial, I think he will be perfectly convinced. If he means to do any 

 thing likely to satisfy himself, or to benefit mankind, he must recur to the native commentaries, or, which 

 is nearly the same thing, he must have a learned native at his elbow. But suppose an Individual hardy 

 enough to get through all these difficulties, and to publish the result of his labours for the benefit of 

 others ; suppose him to have laboured for years, to translate some valuable and interesting work, and 

 then suppose him to print it for the benefit of mankind : what must now be his mortification to find, 

 that he can perhaps sell six copies ; and that he must labour for years to pay the debts he has contracted 

 in printing and publishing his book ? If a man will suppose this, he will suppose nothing more than 

 has more than once taken place, and which will perhaps induce him to believe, that few individuals 

 will ever think of labouring to this extent, and fewer still of giving to the world the result of their labours. 



What has here been stated with reference to Arabian and Persian literature few will perhaps undertake 

 to deny; and if so, when we consider our connections with the East, particularly in a mercantile point of 

 view, I think all must be convinced, that there exists a necessity, that something should be done on a more 

 liberal scale than has hitherto been attempted. I will now point out a list of works that may be printed 

 or translated, or both, with a view to meet the deficiencies just noticed, not intending to intimate that 

 others equally valuable may not also be mentioned, but only to shew that these difficulties need not 

 necessarily exist. 



Arabic Grammar. 



Ibn ul Hajeb, with the Commentary of Moola Jami, and of Najmodden of Irak 



The Alfia of Ibn Malik— Ibn Farliat, &c. 



The Mozhir ul Lughat, by Soyuti. The works of Akhfash, &c. 



Taarifat, or Terms of Art. Jawhari's Lexicon, Scholia on the Poets, &c. Prosody. 



Poetry and Belles-Letlres. 



The Scholia of Sharishi, of Taj Oddeen Ibn Ilyas, of Motarezzi, &c. on Hariri. 



The Makamat of Ibn ul Juzi, with Scholia. 



The Makamat of Hamadani, with ditto. 



The Makamat of Soyuti, with ditto. 



Scholia on the Deewan of Motanabbi. 



Scholia on the Deewan of Ibn Doreid, in addition to those printed by Ilaitsma. 



Scholia on the Hamasa, of which Col. Baillie has a good copy. 



Tales in verse and prose, of which there is great abundance. 



History. 



The Golden Meadows of Masoudi — the Mobtada wa Khabar, of Ibn Khalduun. Lives of the Poets, 

 &c. by Ibn Khalikan. The Biographia Meccana. History of the famous Men in Spain. El Wakcdi's 

 Conquest of Syria. The Tarikh Tabari.* El .Tabarti's account of the French war in Egypt. Ditto by a 

 Syrian. Histories of ancient Ar.abia, Persia, &c. El Damiri's Natural History. Ditto by Cazwini. 

 Macrizi's Egypt. Edrisi's Geography complete. Ditto by Abulfeda, Yakuti's Dictionary, &c. Travels 

 of Ibn Batata, &c. Visits to places of pilgrimege, &c., with Translations from the Greek authors, some 

 of which may perhaps be restored. 



Persian. 

 Geography and Lexicography, 

 Commentaries on Persian Grammar. Sorooree's Poetical Dictionary. Scholia on the Poets generally. 



• About to be published by Kosegarten. 



