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the principal contribution to the lexicography of the Indian dialects 

 that has appeared of late years. Mr. Grierson has published tho 

 sixth part of his " Seven grammars of the dialects and sub-dialects of 

 the Bihari language." Those which have appeared comprise : 1. In- 

 troductory with maps : 2. Bhojpuri dialect of Shahabad, Saran, Cham- 

 paran, North Muzaffarpur and the eastern districts of the N. W. Pro- 

 vinces : 3. Magadhi dialect of South Patna and Gay a : 4. Maithil 

 Bhojpuri of Central and South Muzaffarpur : 5. South Maithili dialect 

 of south Darbhanga, north Hunger and the Madhepura subdivision of 

 Bhagalpur : 6. south Maithil-Magadhi dialect of south Munger and tho 

 Barh subdivision of Patna. There remain only the two last parts, treat- 

 ing of the border dialects between Bengali and Bihari, and containing 

 many forms of special interest. These are in the press and will shortly 

 be published. 



Dravidian. — Amongst the Dravidian languages of southern India, the 

 Tamil appears to hold the first place as well for the quality as for tho 

 quantity of the work produced. S. M. Natesa Sastri has published 

 a translation of the Sanskrit play MudrdrdJcshasa, and, in the Revue de 

 linguistique, Mr. Gerard Deveze has a translation into French of the Tamil 

 edition of Sakuntala, of which another version has been published by 

 A. S. Venkatachari. Several translations from the Mahabharata and 

 Ramayana and some excellent anthologies have appeared, of which 

 I would notice the collection for the matriculation examination and 

 that for the First Arts containing parts of the Tamil Naladiyar and ViU 

 liputtur Bharatam. In grammars, we have reprints of Pope's excellent 

 catechisms, Mahalingaiyar's grammar, the Nannul of Pavanandi in 

 Tamil and English, and a new edition of the Nannul Kandigdi Urai, 

 besides a work on Tamil prosody. In Telugu, we must notice the 

 Sabdaratndkaram, a new dictionary based on Johnson's and illustrat- 

 ing each word by extracts from authors considered classical ; and, though 

 a school-book, T. Anjaneya Sastri's elementary grammar. The text- 

 books for the University examinations contain excellent selections, and 

 to these I would add K. Viresalingam's translations of some of Shak- 

 speare's plays and of some of Kalidasa's dramas and Sitarama Sastri's 

 Mudrdrdkshasa. The Rev. E. Droese of Bhagalpur has brought to our 

 notice, in his * Introduction to the Malto language and vocabulary ' and 

 in two small tracts, a dialect spoken by the hill-men of the Santhal 

 country of which very little was previously known. It appears to be 

 an offshoot of the great Dravidian family of speech, which here reaches 

 its extreme north-eastern limit. The new text-book for the matricula- 

 tion examination in Malayalim contains the Ghdnakya Sutram and 

 part of the Patumdla Vrittam ; the Basel Mission sends out the Gospels 



