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died about sixty years ago. He spent nearly the whole of his life in 

 the compilation of this work. It contains the technical terms of all the 

 sciences cultivated by the Musalmans, and what gives it a particularly 

 high value is that the definitions and explanations are taken verbatim 

 from the most authentic text books and commentaries of the respective 

 sciences, there are therefore collected in it the opinions of the most dis- 

 tinguished authors. Of those sciences which are still cultivated, and well 

 known, the author contents himself by explaining the technical terms 

 but in those sciences of which books are rare he enters deeper into the 

 subject and gives in fact a compendium of the leading points. The 

 book is very much like our Encyclopedias. In extent it is equal to, or 

 larger than the Qamiis, and if its publication should be decided upon 

 it will be desirable to print it in the same form as the Calcutta edition 

 of the Qamiis. At present two MS. copies are at the disposal of 

 the Society and it is very likely that we shall be able to obtain one of 

 the three copies which the author has written with his own hand. 



Capt. F. Hayes intends to publish in the Bibliotheca Indica the 

 Tazkirah of Persian poets by Abu 7'alib Khan which was compiled in 

 A. H. 1206 and of which a very learned notice from the pen of Mr. 

 Bland has appeared in the Journal of the Royal As. Soc. Lon. IX. 

 p. 153. Capt. Hayes is Assistant Resident at Lucknow, and he will 

 find in that city a very carefully written autograph copy which is pre- 

 served in the Fara^-baksh library. 



Among the new books which have been lately lithographed at Luck- 

 now are the following : — 



^Ikl* jyy». A translation into Urdoo of Shamshyr Khan's prose 

 version of the Shahnamah, by Myrza Rajab Alyy Sonir. The 

 book is in rhymed prose and in an idiom which is peculiar to the 

 literati of Lucknow, it is neither Persian nor Hindustani but in the 

 whole approaches nearer to the former than the latter. It is dedi- 

 cated to the illustrious Ruler of Oudh and to one of his Doms. The 

 print is remarkably clear, it has 312 pp. 8vo. fjfe** *-Hj£ *Jj*. 

 The birth of Mohammad in Urdoo verses composed in A. H. 1251 by 

 Gholam 'Abbas Khan and lithographed in 1267 l2mo. 48 pp. 



fij^J ffcfy (4to. 423 pp. lithographed in 1267) On the author and 

 contents refer to /iajy Khalyfah No. 3674. 



