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A. A. Macdonell, broiiglit out tlirough the authorities of the Cambridge 

 University. Professor Pischel's editions of Rudrata's erotic poem S'rin- 

 gdratilalia and Ruyj^aka's Sahridayalild win a commendatory notice from 

 M. S. Levi. We have also the Kaushitald Brdlimana by Dr. B. Lindner, 

 Hemachandra's Lingdnusdyina with a commentary by Dr. R. v. Franke, 

 and Dr. Self's ' die Kasmlr recension der Fancasikd.' Amongst grammars 

 and dictionaries are Bohtlingk's edition of Panini, and a new edition of 

 Max Miiller's grammar by Mr. A. A. Macdonell, who is also engaged on 

 a Practical Sanskrit dictionary. Parts of Prof. C. Capeller's ' Sanskrit- 

 Worterhucli,'' based on the great St. Petersburg!! dictionary, have ap- 

 peared, and Dr. Speijer's valuable Syntax of classical Sanskrit, of which 

 we hope soon to see a translation into English. I may mention here 

 that the Paris Academy has chosen as one of the subjects for prizes in 

 1889, ' the Hindu drama.' 



hidian Aryan. — The versions of the Scriptures in Marathi, Dakhani, 

 Hindi, Santcili, Uriya, and Urdu are now under-going revision at the 

 hands of competent scholars, and should, from a merely philological 

 point of view, furnish valuable results. Tulsidas's Rdmdyana has been 

 republished in Bombay, and selections from it in the N. W. Provinces. 

 It is to be regretted that it was not possible to issue any part of the 

 Bihari dictionary of Dr. Hoernle and Mr. G. A. Grierson during the 

 year. Generally speaking, the school series of books in the various 

 dialects spoken in India form a valuable contribution to the aids 

 for their acquisition, by this I mean not only those published by the 

 State Educational Department, but also those prepared by private Native 

 compilers. In Urdu, special attention may be drawn to the new 

 Hindustani dictionary in preparation by the Rev. J, D. Bate of Allaha- 

 bad which, it is promised, will contain many thousands of words that 

 have never yet appeared in any dictionary hitherto published. Sindhi 

 in Arabic characters makes a little progress: we have the ' Kisso sa^i 

 panhuja,^ a love story, and, in Hindi characters, a translation of the Bha- 

 gavat. 



Tiheto-Burman. — The Rev. S. Endle has published a grammar of 

 the Kachari-Bara, as spoken in the Darrang district in Assam ; and Mr. 

 Needham, already known for his labours in this field, has given us one 

 of the Shaiyang-miri, spoken by the Miris near Sadiya, with texts and 

 a vocabulary. 



Indo-Chinese. — M. Azemar has published in Saigon a vocabulary 

 of the Stieng language spoken in the valley of the Mekong, and M. 

 Guion has, in the pages of the Journal of the Paris Geographical 

 Society, several contributions on the Muongs, a tribe occupying portions 

 of the upper banks of the same river. In the Melanges Orientaux 



