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hensive title, and brings together and learnedly digests scraps of inform- 

 ation on the subjects discussed from almost all possible sources. Nor 

 must I omit to mention the new edition of Manu's Institutes and the 

 principal commentary thereon brought out by our member, the Honora- 

 ble Rao Sahib V. N. Mandlik. Also the Subhashitavali of Vallabha- 

 deva of Kashmir, containing extracts from the works of nearly 350 

 different poets of Kashmir and upper India, and edited by Professor 

 Peterson and Pandit Durga Prasad. The notes are especially valuable 

 as affording much information regarding the lives of the authors and 

 the places in which they wrote. Editions of the Yajur Veda in 

 Vaidik, Sanskrit, and Hindi have appeared at Agra by Bhargava Jvala 

 Parshada, and at Allahabad by Dayanand Sarasvati, the latter of whom 

 is also bringing out a similar edition of the Rigveda. 



Lexicography. — In lexicography and in the preparation of lists and 

 grammars of dialects considerable advance has been made. Dr. B6h- 

 tlingk is bringing to completion the abbreviated edition of his great 

 Sanskrit dictionary ; and we look forward with interest to the appear- 

 ance of Mr. Anandaram Borooah's edition of the Amarakosha, of which 

 also reprints have issued in Bombay and Calcutta during the year. In 

 the Revue de linguistique et de Philologie comjparee, M. R. de la Grasserie 

 has a paper, comparing the words relating to number in all languages, 

 and in which he advances several novel ideas as to the abstract and 

 concrete conception of number in the various families of speech. 



Assam. — Due in a great measure to the encouragement offered by Mr. 

 C. A. Elliott, when chief Commissioner of Assam, considerable activity 

 has been shown of late in the preparation of lists and grammars of the 

 languages of Assam. Amongst those of recent issue are the 'Outline 

 grammar of the Kachari language' by the Rev. S. Endle ; ' Short account 

 of the Kachar Naga tribe with an outline grammar, vocabulary and 

 illustrative sentences ' by Mr. C. A. Soppitt ; and by the same writer a 

 4 Historical and Descriptive account of the Kachari tribes in the north 

 Kachar Hills with specimens of tales and folk-lore.' Professor Avery, 

 in the pages of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, has given 

 us papers on the Garo language, that of the Lepchas of Sikkim, and that 

 of the Ao-Nagas, inhabiting the hills forming the southern border of the 

 Sibsagar district ; they call themselves Ao but are more commonly 

 known by their Assamese names, Hatigonias, Dupdorias, Assiringias, &c. 

 A dictionary of the Garo language is under preparation by the American 

 Missionaries at Tura. Major Macgregor's Singpho grammar and ' Rough 

 notes on the Singphos and Khamptis,' printed at Dibrugarh, are both of 

 practical philological and ethnographical value. To these we may add Mr. 

 Needham's Abor grammar, Mr. MacCabe's Angami-Naga grammar, and the 



