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fruitless search along the many possible avenues of exploration 
leading to Madras, Bombay. Simla, Delhi, Lucknow, or wher- 
ever else. Itis for the same reason that I mention the names 
of a few book-sellers specialising in Oriental Literature, con- 
trary to the convention usually observed in learned journals. 
I. Tier Generat. 
a. Genera | Oriental Bibliography. 
1. Orientalische Bibliographie (also with English title- 
page : Oriental Bibliography) 
A 
and E. Kuhn, 4 vols., from 1883 to 1886 ; now “ Orientalische 
Bibliographie,” lastly edited by Lucian Schermann, from 1887. 
The latest bound volume in the Imperial Library is Vol. 22, and 
contains the titles for 1908. Published in 1910. Since the 
outbreak of the war this indispensable work has ceased to 
appear but recently information has reached India stating that 
there is a probability of the resumption of its publication. 
A separate special bibliography of works on Tibet does 
not yet exist. In the above work Tibet has a separate head- 
ing. The Imperial Library in Calcutta has a complete set of 
the third series ; the Adyar Library a nearly complete set of all 
the three series. 
2. Recent works on Tibet are periodically recorded in the 
excellent subject indexes to the modern works added to the 
Library of the British Museum, of which the various volumes 
are dated 1902, 1906 (for 1901-1905), 1911 (for 1906-1910) 
and 1918 (for 1911-1915). In the Imperial Library. 
b. Special Chinese Bibliography. 
The older “‘ Manual of Chinese Bibliography ” by P. G. and 
QO. F. Von Mollendorff, Shanghai, 1876, has a special section 
devoted to Tibet. sors. 
is work is now superseded by the “ Bibliotheca Sinica,’ 
of H. Cordier, Paris, 1904-1907 (2nd edition), 4 vols., which 
in Vol 4 devotes about 68 columns to Tibet, and this part of 
the work constitutes in reality the fullest special Tibetan 
bibliography extant. In this work also the section Bud- 
ism naturally contains much matter of interest to Tibetan 
