94 Archeeologisch Onderzoek op Java en Madura. [March, 1905. 
9. Archeologisch Onderzoek op Java enMadura. I Beschrijving 
van de ruine bij de Tesa Toempang, genaamd Tjandi Djago. 
Batavia, 1904.—By Fatuer Danimann, S.J. Communicated by 
the Philological Secretary. 
A magnificent volume of Archeological research has lately 
been presented to the Asiatic Society by the Batavian Society of 
Letters and Arts. It is the first outcome of the researches con- 
ducted by the newly established archeological survey in the 
Dutch Hast Indies, and it treats of one of those highly interesting 
relics of true Indian Art, so profusely scattered over the whole 
ground of Middle and Hastern Java. Although I cannot claim any 
title to introduce to you this admirable work—yet the favourable 
opportunity I enjoyed of visiting Java on my way back from 
China and of personally examining some of its most distinguished 
monuments, may perhaps excuse my saying a few words about the 
results embodied in this volume. I am all the more anxious to 
do this for the Asiatic Society in that it was a distinguished 
English statesman and administrator in the Far Hast, who gave 
us the first accurate and scientific knowledge of the monumental 
antiquities of Hindoo civilization in Java. I refer to Sir Thomas 
Stamford Raffles, Governor General of Java and its dependencies. 
This distinguished member of the Asiatic Society, inspired by that 
high enthusiam for Indian research which led to so many dis- 
coveries, revealed to us for the first time a new world of Indian 
art in his masterly History of Java. I say ‘masterly :” for when 
we remember that until his time nothing had been done to clear 
the way for the study of the relics of Hindoo Religion and Art 
once predominant in Java, everyone must be surprised at the 
vast and minute learning with which Raffles introduced into the 
descriptive and figurative details of research. His History of 
Java gave the first impulse to closer investigation of the grand 
monuments. But although since his time some remarkable works 
have been published by distinguished members of the Batavian 
Society, 1t was long before a methodical inquiry, covering the 
whole ground of ancient Hindoo relics, could be inaugurated— 
perhaps according to a German proverb, “ Gut Ding hat Weile,” 
‘“a good thing needs time.” And indeed it is a good thing, in fact 
an excellent thing, which finally has been brought forth by the 
Archeological Survey of the Dutch Hast Indies under the leader- 
ship of its talented Director General, Dr. Brandes. 
The volume presents to us a complete archzological picture 
of a Buddhist Sanctuary in Hastern Java, now-a-days called Tyjandi 
Toempong. The monument described is neither one of the earliest 
nor one of the finest works produced by the Hindoo artists in Java. 
For the monuments erected in the Hastern Kingdoms of Hindoo 
Princes show, in style and workmanship, a remarkable decline 
from what we admire in the artistic beauty developed at a much 
earlier period in Central Java. If we look for the monuments 
of the classical period, we must turn our eyes to Boro-Bodur and 
