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SECOND EDITION OF MR. ARNOLD’S NEW AND POPULAR POEM ON 
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THE LIGHT OF ASTIA; 
Or, The Great Renunciation. a 
Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism : 
TOLD IN VERSE BY AN INDIAN BUDDHIST. 
By EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.I., Author of ‘‘The Indian Song of Songs.” ; 
‘Mr. Edwin Arnold’s poem, the ‘ Light of Asia,’ is the most sympathetic account ever published in Europe 
of the life and teaching of the Sakya Saint, Prince Gautama Siddartha, the Lord Buddha. . . . . It is 
beyond the scope of the present review to enter into any explanation of the Dharma (Law of Righteousness), — 
Karna, Nirvana, and other tenets and precepts of Buddhism. They will be found summed up in Buddha’s — 
‘Sermon on the Mount,’ the poetical paraphrase of which in Mr. Arnold’s ‘Light of Asia’ is one of the mosth 
nteresting chapters of his book.””—Zzmzes. * } 
“With much skill Mr. Arnold has illustreted his narrative with a series of Indian pictures, the fascination 
of which will be felt by those who know India.”’"=-Pall Mall Gazette. 
‘Tn fact, in reading this remarkable poem, many will in imagination be transported again to the East, or 
revive with pleasure, in wonderful freshness, long dormant memories of that far-off land.” —Odserver. 3 
“Tts tone is so lofty that there is nothing with which to compare it but the New Testament ; it is full of 
variety, now picturesque, now pathetic, now rising into the noblest realms of thought and aspiration.”—OLIVER 
WENDELL HOLMES, /zternationul Review. 
“© ©The Light of Asia’ is altogether without a rival in contemporary literature. No such poem has appeared 
since ‘Childe Harold.’”—The Pioneer, Allahabad. ‘ 
“In Mr. Edwin Arnold Indian poetry and Indian thought have at length found a worthy English expo 
nent.”—Calcutta Englishman. 
‘* A poem equally striking for the novelty of its conception, its vigour of execution, and the exquisite beauty 
f tts descriptive passages.”—New York Daily Tribune. 
4to, pp. Ixviii-376, cloth, £2 8s. 
HINDU TRIBES AND CASTES; 
Together with an Account of the Mahommedan Tribes of the North-West Frontier 
and of the Aboriginal Tribes of the Central Provinces. | 
By the Rev. M. A. SHERRING, M.A., LL.B. Lond., 
Fellow of the Calcutta University ; Corresponding Member of the Bengal Asiatic Society ; Author of 
“The Sacred City of the Hindus,” ‘‘ The History of Protestant Missions in India,” &c. 
The first volume of this work exhibited the Tribes and Castes of India as represented in Benares, 
and was consequently restricted in its range. As Benares isa great Brahmanical centre, in which & 
few members, at the least, of all the principal divisions of the priestly order reside, tt was found 
practicable to give an outline, accurate so far as tt went, yet occasionally too brief and scanty, of the 
prominent Brahmanical Castes of the Indian Peninsula. Wéth this exception, the work was of @ 
limited character, and presented mainly a delineation of the numerous Hindu, inferior, and 
aboriginal tribes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh. 3 
The aim of the present volume ts to supply some of the deficiencies of its predecessor, It @ 
divided into Four Parts. The first discusses the Tribes of the Punjab and its North-Western Fron- 
tier ; the second, those of the Central Provinces and Berar, the third, those of the Presidency of 
Bombay ; the fourth, those of the Province of Scinde. Rajputana and the Presidency of Madras are 
veserved for the third and last volume. Bengal Proper and Behar have not been included in this 
dissertation, for the reason that the Hill Tribes of Assam, Rajmahal, Chota-Najpore, and elsewhere 
’ in those extensive tracts, have already been described in detazl by a distinguished and painstaking 
scholar, Colonel Dalton; and it would be superfluous to re-enter upon a work which he has so ably 
executed. The third and last volume, which ts tn an advanced stage of preparation, will contain an 
Index of the entire work. 
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