1865.] Literary Intelligence, 



Literary Intelligence. 



The large bronze statue of B ud cilia which was exhumed at Sooltan- 

 gunge by Mr. Harris and which has been figured in this Journal, has 

 reached England and been presented by Mr. T. Thornton to the town 

 of Birmingham. 



Capt. Lees was under a misimpression when he announced at the 

 last August meeting that the Elliot MSB.., now under publication in 

 England by Mr. E. B. Cowell and Dr. Reinhold Host, were being 

 published by our Society. The offer of assistance, which, on the 

 recommendation of our Philological Committee, our Council sent to 

 Lady Elliot in June 1863, through our Honorary Agent in London, 

 Mr. E. Thomas, was not at once accepted, and in the mean time, 

 Mr. Co well's return to England enabled her ladyship to make other 

 and to her more acceptable arrangements. The historical materials left by 

 Sir H. Elliot, are to be published in 3 volumes, edited by Mr. Cowell, 

 under the title of ' The History of India as told by its own historians/ 

 while M. Rost is to bring out a complete edition of the Glossary 

 under that of ' Memoirs on the history, philology and ethnic distri- 

 bution of the races of the N. "W. Provinces of India.' The History is 

 not to contain any oriental text. 



M. Jules Mohl in announcing its projected publication in the Journ. 

 Asiatique, makes the following remarks. 



" Jenesuis pas, en general, grand partisan des ouvrages posthumes ; 

 mais je suis heureux de voir que Ton sauve de l'oubli tout ce qui peut 

 se publier des materiaux prepares et elabores par un homme aussi 

 distingue par le cceur, l'esprit et le savoir, que Sir H. Elliot, qui 

 etait certainement un des homines les plus remarquables parmi le 

 grand nombre des savants que le service de la Compagnie des Indes 

 a formes. On ne leur a jamais rendu en Angleterre la meme justice 

 que sur le continent, et je crois qu'il en sera de meme des ouvrages 

 posthumes dont jeparle ici." 



Mr. Cowell, we hear, has also undertaken the continuation of 

 "Wilson's translation of the Big Veda. 



Brockhaus has undertaken to publish M. Haug's ! Religion of the 

 Zoroastrians,' which is to be in two volumes, the first to contain the 



