1851.] Literary Intelligence* 431 



AAmad Belgramy in A. H. 1253, and printed in the Moctafa Press 

 at Lucknow in A. H. 1257. It is a quarto volume of 940 pages, 

 and contains chiefly Hindi words with their meaning in Persian and 

 Arabic and with illustrations from poets. So great is the demand for 

 a work of the kind, that this book has been for several years out of 

 print, and two abridgments have been printed of it ; one the Anfas 

 alnafayis in A. H. 1263, and the other the Montakhab alnafayis in 

 A. H. 1264. 



Makhzan alfawayid a collection of Hindustani idioms illustrated by 

 passages from poets, compiled by Irshad, and lithographed at Delhi, in 

 1845, fol. 357 pages. This is a very valuable book. 



Grammar of the Urdoo language explained in Urdoo by Mawlawy 

 Imam Bakhsh, lithographed at Delhi, 1845, 8vo. 295 pages. The third 

 chapter of this book contains a collection of words, and the fourth, pro- 

 verbs and idioms. 



ToAfat al-Hind by Myrza Khan, a son of Fakhr aldyn Mohammad. 

 It is divided into a preface, which treats on the letters of the Hindus (the 

 Devanagary alphabet), seven chapters and a conclusion ; the first five 

 chapters treat on the metre, rhyme, rhetoric, loves and music of the 

 Hindus. The sixth treats on the science called Kok. This chapter 

 is a Persian translation of a well known Sanscrit work. The eighth 

 chapter treats on physiognomies according to the Hindus, arid 

 the appendix on lexicography ; but the preceding chapters contain 

 the explanation of a very great number of Hindi terms. This book 

 has never been printed and MSS. are rare, but it seems that Mr. 

 Shakespear has carefully used it. The whole work is to be considered 

 a free translation from the Sanscrit and Hindi into Persian. 



Gharayib alloghat, Hindi terms explained in Persian by 5 Abd 

 al-Wasy of Hansy. This book has not been printed : there exist MSS. 

 of it which contain merely an abstract, and have sometimes a different 

 title. 



It is very desirable that a Hindustani Dictionary should contain those 

 English terms of which the orthography has been fixed in Hindustani 

 such as " inch" "feet" the names of the months, &c. also that it 

 should be to some extent encyclopaediacal, that is to say, contain not 

 only explanations of words but also of things. Mr. Hall will find 

 the Kachshaf ictilaMt alfonun, or explanation of the terms used in 



