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Other Works. — In the invaluable series entitled ' Sacred Books of the 

 East,' translated by various Oriental scholars and edited by Professor 

 L\ Max Miillcr, we have, almost at first hand, ample materials for an accu- 

 rate estimation of the religions of Asia, from Japan in the extreme east to 

 Arabia in the west. Twenty-four volumes of the first series have been 

 published, and a second series of twenty-four volumes has been commen- 

 ced, of which the Satapatha-Brdhmana, part II, by Professor Eggeling, 

 and the Li-ki, or ' Collection of treatises on the rules of propriety or cere- 

 monial usages,' forming parts II and III of the ' Texts of Confucianism,' 

 by the veteran Sinologist, Dr. James Legge, have reached us during the 

 year. The following works are under publication : — Manu by Dr. G. Biih- 

 ler ; the Grihya-sutras or rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies by Professor 

 H. Oldenberg ; the Yazna, Visparad, Afrigdn, and Gtihs of the Zend-Aves- 

 ta by the Rev. L. H. Mills ; Vedic Hymns by Professor F. Max Miiller ; 

 Ndrada and some minor Law-books by Professor J. Jolly ; and the 

 Veddnta-sutras with Sankara's commentary by Dr. G. Thibaut. In the 

 Aryan section of the Anecdota series, also published at the Clarendon 

 Press in Oxford, are several of the Buddhist texts of Japan and China, 

 of which the last received is the Dharma-samgraha, a collection of Bud- 

 dhist technical terms. In the Divydddna, a collection of early Buddhist 

 legends, edited by Professor Cowell and Mr. R. A. Neil, we have an addi- 

 tion of some value to our extensive Buddhistic literature. Dr. G. Buhler 

 too, has done good service by his translation of Pandit Bhagwan Lai's 

 work on Nepalese inscriptions, which, taken with Mr. Bendall's ' Journey 

 of literary and archaeological research in Nepal and Northern India ' and 

 Dr. Wright's Nepal, has considerably advanced our knowledge of the 

 early history of that country. 



During the 3~ear, one volume of the history of the ' Local Mu- 

 hammadan dynasties of Gujarat ' by our late member Sir E. Clive 

 Bayley has been published. It is partly based on work left un- 

 finished at his death by Professor Dowson, and contains extracts 

 relating to Gujarat from the Mirdt-i-Ahmadi, Mirdt-i-Silcandzri t 

 Tabalcdt-i-Alchari, and other works. It is intended, so far as they can be 

 recovered, that extracts from other works on Gujarat history only shall 

 be presented in a second volume. The same volume contains an appre- 

 ciative notice by Colonel H. Yule of the life of Sir E. Clive Bayley and his 

 work in India, much of which was performed through or for this Society. 

 The year, too, has seen the publication of that very interesting work by 

 Colonel H. Yule and the late A. C. Burnell, bearing the quaint title of 

 ' Ilobson-Jobson ' and being a glossary of Anglo- Indian colloquial words 

 and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical, 

 and discursive. It fully bears out the promise of its somewhat compre- 



