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LINGUISTIC AND ORIENTAL ESSAYS. 
WRITTEN FROM THE YEAR 1846 TO 1878, 
By ROBERT NEEDHAM CUST, 
Late Member of Her Majesty’s Indian Civil Service ; Hon. Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society 
and Author of ‘‘ The Modern Languages of the East Indies.” 
** Some of the last words of my master, Lord Lawrence, in India were, ‘Be kind to the 
natives.’ I would go even further, and say, ‘ Take an interest in and try to love them.’ They 
are the heirs (perhaps the spendthrift heirs) of an ancient, but still surviving civilisation. And 
how far superior are they to the modern Egyptian, or dweller of Mesopotamia, the bankrupt heirs 
of a still more ancient but exhausted civilisation! How superior are they to the Equatorial and 
Tropical African, who never had any civilisation at all! Jt seems a special privilege to have 
lived a quarter of a century amidst such a people as the inhabitants of Northern India, who are 
bone of our Arian bone, if not flesh of our Occidental culture; a people with History, Arts, 
Sciences, Literature, and Religion not to be surpassed, if equalled, by the Chinese and Japanese, 
who, like the Indians, for so many centuries sat apart from, and uninfluenced by, the long splen- 
dour of the Greek and Roman civilisation, which had overshadowed the rest of the world,” — 
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THE ENGLISHMAN AND THE SCANDINAVIAN ; 
Or, A Comparison of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Literature, 
By FREDERICK METCALFE, M.A., 
Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; Translator of ‘‘ Gallus” and “‘ Charicles,” and 
Author of ‘‘The Oxonian in Iceland.” 
The Author has tried to interview the two races, the Anglo-Saxon and his Scandinavian 
brother. He has asked the nineteenth century man to turn aside and survey his incunabula ; to 
stand by the cradle, so to say, of two great branches of the Gothic family when they were just 
crossing the threshold of history ; to follow the young hopeful onwards in his career through his 
several ages, to listen to his untutored words and language, to take note of his thoughts and 
feelings, his ways of looking at things from the days when his writing was runes scratched on 
wood or stone to the time when he copied beautifully and cunningly on vellum.’—EXTRACT 
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The BIRDS of CORNWALL and the SCILLY ISLANDS. 
By the late EDWARD HEARLE RODD. 
Edited, with an Introduction, Appendix, and Brief Memoir of the Author, by 
JAMES EDMUND HartTinG. With Portrait and Map. 
‘** Cornwall presents advantages to the Ornithologist such as are not offered by any other 
English county. It projects so far south and west into the Atlantic Ocean as to command a 
climate distinctly milder than that of the South of England generally, and a summer heat that 
has a certain tropical character about it. It is true that this extreme position deprives it of a 
few forms abundant in the north and east. Its moors, so prolific in rare species of pepit and 
plover, are unvisited by such familiar birds as the red grouse ; while the black grouse and the 
quail are so rare as. to be considered merely accidental visitors. On the other hand, the muddy 
estuaries of the Cornish coast are the natural habitat of all the race of redshanks, knots, and 
sandpipers, a great variety of which swell the list of county fauna with more than twenty 
species.” — Saturday Review. 
‘* The book will prove a great boon to all bird-lovers who visit Cornwall,” —Academy. 
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