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B. — In what does discrimination consist ? A. — In leading a 

 virtuous life. 



B. — What is the height of ignorance ? A. — Injustice. 



B. — 'What is injustice 1 A. — Acting unworthily of one's self. 



B. — What pleases one 1 A. — His own offspring. 



B. — What displeases one ? A. — Death. 



Literary Intelligence. 



Mr. N. Bland of RandelPs Park is preparing for publication a new 

 edition of the Dy wan of Hafiz, with the Life of the poet in Persian. No 

 man, either in India or in Europe, is better able to give us a correct 

 edition of the greatest of the lyrical poets of the Persians than Mr. 

 Bland ; he possesses a most profound knowledge of the Persian language 

 and has ampler materials for correcting the text at his command than 

 any body else. 



The same gentleman anticipates that he will be able next winter to lay 

 the first volume of his history of the Persian poets before the public. 

 It will contain a resume of all available Tazkirahs, and the number of 

 poets of whose lives and writings it will give an account, must therefore 

 far exceed five thousand. 



Mr. E. Hall of the Benares College, intends to compile a Hindus- 

 tani and Hindi Dictionary. With due respect for the excellent work of 

 Mr. Shakespear, I am certainly of opinion that such a work is needed, 

 Shakespear's book, being a work of learning, is particularly poor in 

 idioms and local terms. Many things have different names in differ- 

 ent places. Thus at Lucknow the convex tile which in roofing 

 is placed upon two concave tiles 1^4^'to connect them, is called W^€* 

 and at Delhi, it is called ^ij>\. I n reference to the want of idiom, I am 

 convinced that not even a good Hindustani scholar could, with the 

 help of Shakespear, read the Dywan of Myr Yar 'Alyy, it being written 

 in the language of ladies. 



Native literature offers us unfortunately very few materials towards 

 Dictionary, they are the Nafayis alloghat, compiled by AwAad aldyn 



