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treaties between Venice etc. and the Moslems is highly praised. Emil 

 Schlagintweit's . Buddhism in Tibet with a copious Atlas of original 

 drawings and pictures from the temple shrines of Tibet (representing 

 Buddhist gods, saints and symbols) is a work of great interest. Curi- 

 ous enough ; I found among these pictures the exact counterpart to a 

 stone figure of Manjucri, deposited now in our Royal Museum here 

 but imported from Java, and containing two Sanskrit inscriptions in 

 old character (from Qaka 1265), a decyphering and translation of 

 which Dr. Friederich left with me (for the Journal of our Society) on 

 his departure for Java at the end of February last. Five centuries 

 between, and still the same picture in Java and in Tibet, — this is indeed 

 a mark of much tenacity to the old form of representing this deity 

 (or half god), and at the same time also an evidence for its even much 

 higher antiquity. The last proof sheet of the Petersburg Worterbuch 

 went to T*m and I think that number 5 of the fourth volume will 

 soon be ready. The twelfth vol. of Kuhn's Zeitschrift fur verglei- 

 chende Sprachforschung is finished. It is a great pity, that Kuhn 

 has not more leisure to devote to his studies on comparative mytho- 

 logy : he is professor at a Gymnasium (high school) and his time very 

 much restricted. Windischmann's Zoroastrische Studien (edited by 

 Spiegel) is a very excellent work. The author (a Catholic clergyman 

 of high distinction in Munich) combined Burnout's method with a 

 very deep and successful study of the Pehlvi literature : his premature 

 death is a great loss for science. The first volume of Boehtlingk's 

 collection of Sanskrit " Spruche 1 ' appeared in July : to the text (al- 

 phabetically arranged) is added the translation, and at the foot the 

 enumeration of all the passages, where the verse is occurring, and the 

 varietas lectionis. The second part is to contain the rest (from V to %) 

 and ample indices to the whole. 



