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sciences, invaluable for this purpose, though it contains merely Arabic 

 terms. It is the work of Mohammad A'la of Saharanpore, who was 

 engaged on it sixty years, and completed it in A. H. 1158. He is dead. 

 The Arabic and Persian medical terms are in the Bahr aljawahir. 

 Hindi technical terms are in Persian translations of Sanscrit, and Hindi 

 works which are rather numerous, and treat on various subjects, such 

 as cookery, the occult sciences, the manners of the Jogies, songs, 

 medicine, the veterinary art, &c. and they are intended by the trans- 

 lators to illustrate the manners and sciences of the Hindus. 



In the last number of the Journal, when writing about the Satyarnab, 

 we expressed a wish, that the Vernacular Literature Committee of 

 Calcutta should publish an illustrated Bengali periodical in the plan 

 of the Penny Magazine. We have since heard that such a work is 

 already in the press, and will be published early in October next. 



The Purnachandrodaya press has lately issued an edition of Sir 

 William Jones's translation of the Hitopadesha. 



