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the works of Arabic grammarians, especially in the Panjab, we have to 

 record the publication of the great grammar of Sibwayh or Sibawaihi, 

 entitled ' Al hitdh ' or ' the Book ' by Maulavi Kabirnddin Ahmad at 

 the ' Urdu Guide ' press in Calcutta. I note that an edition of this work 

 is also appearing in Paris, edited by Professor H. Derenbourg. We may 

 also record the near completion of a new edition of Lane's great lexicon, 

 and the completion of the first volume of the DicHonnaire Frangais- Arabs 

 by M. E. Gasselin, French Consul- General at Calcutta, containing all 

 the words of the French language, including technical terms, with their 

 Arabic equivalents, which are fartlier grammatically and etymologically 

 explained and illustrated by examples from classical writers. Dr. Lansing 

 publishes a practical Arabic grammar at Chicago, and we have French 

 translations of Ibn Batuta and Mas'udi's ' Meadows of gold.' But per- 

 haps the most important Arabic work of the year is Professor Sachau's 

 edition of the text and translation of the great work of Al Beriini, 

 published under the auspices of the Secretary of State for India. 

 Written in the eleventh century of our era, it contains the most accurate 

 and philosophical account of the Hindu inhabitants of India of the 

 time that is to be found in the whole range of Musalman literature. 

 Dr. 0. S. Jayakar, Civil- Surgeon of Maskat, also gives us a brief 

 account of the dialect spoken in the Oman district of Arabia. 



Iranian- Aryan. — Portions of the Zend scriptures and writings have 

 been reprinted in Gujrat and Bombay. We have the text with transla- 

 tion, commentary, and lexicon of the Gajastah Ahalish prepared by A. 

 Barthelemy, and reviewed by Kirste in the Vienna Journal, and also by 

 the Bev. L. H. Mills, the third part of the English translation of the 

 Avestd. M. C. Salaman's ' Mittelpersisclie Studien,' in the Bulletin of 

 the St. Petersburgh Academy, criticises Peshutan Dastiir Behraraji 

 Sayana's edition of portions of the Pahlavi writings transliterated in 

 Zend characters, and translated into Gujrati and English with a com- 

 mentary and glossary. 



Sanskrit. — Tour attention may be drawn to two serial publications 

 in Bombay which serve the same purposes as our Bibliotheca Indica, for 

 the minor Sanskrit works. One is the ' Kdvyamdla,^ carefully edited by 

 Pandit Durga Prasada and Kashinath P. Paraba, and containing reprints 

 of short poems and verses, and the other is the ' Kdvyetihdsa samgraha,^ 

 giving editions of dramas, chronicles, philosophical and theological 

 works. We have also from Bombay, Dr. Taylor's translation of the 

 Frabodha chandrodaya. Amongst new editions, a high place is taken 

 by Professor Peterson's Hitopadesa ; Vroiessor Jolly's Md^iava Dhar ma 

 S'dstra, of which several notices appear ; the Maitrdyani samliitd by 

 Schroeder, and Katyayana's SarvanuJcraniani to the Rig-Veda by Mr. 



