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Literary Intelligence. 



In Bombay the following works have been lithographed : 



A new edition of the Rawdhat as-Safa in one volume folio and much 

 clearer than the edition in two volumes which was published in 1261. 



Dywane J7afitz, 8vo. 439 pp. A. H. 1267. This is the third or 

 fourth edition published at Bombay and the text differs both from 

 the Bombay 4to. edition of 1244, and from the Calcutta 4to. edition. 

 It is very elegantly written but not very correct. 



The Khamsah of Nitzamy small folio, 1265. This edition is not 

 correct. It comprises the Iqbal-namah Iskandary which is also 

 called the Sekandar-n^mah Barry but not the Khirad-namah which is 

 also called the Iskandar-namah Bahry and which in fact is rarely met 

 with. The latter is being published in the Bibliotheca Indica, the first 

 half is out and the second half is in progress. The Khamsah has 

 also been lithographed at Teheran. 



A new edition of the complete works of Sa'dy in 4to. It is supe- 

 rior to the folio edition of 1296, but much inferior to Mr. Harington's 

 edition. Another edition has been lately made at Dilly. 



Of the Mathnawy of Jalal aldyn Rumiy two new editions have 

 been made both in 8vo. one is written in Naskhta'lyq 1267 and the 

 other in Naskhy. The former is said to be more correct. 



17amlahe i/aydary or the history of Mohammad in verses by 

 Mumin 'alyy Kirmany. The author was a converted Parsee and died 

 a few years ago, folio near 600 pp. A. H. 1264. 



At Lucnow the IZamlahe i/aydary of Badzil (who died in A. H. 

 1123) has been lithographed, it is a rhymed version of the Ma'arij 

 alnobuwat, in about 40,000 verses. Folio 238 & 333 pp. A. H. 1267. 



The first No. of the Journal Asiatique de Constantinople has been 

 received from the Editor, M. Cay el, whose introduction draws atten- 

 tion to the many gaps in early Turkish History and to the materials 

 available in Turkey for filling them up. Much information is doubt- 

 less to be obtained from the Medjmoua, and Memoranda which he 

 describes as abounding in the Turkish Libraries and which it is 

 impossible that M. de Hammer can have exhausted. This No. pro- 

 mises well and if, as he hints in a short preliminary notice on the 

 contribution of an Armenian gentleman, the Editor should undertake 

 to publish translations of old Armenian MSS. his Journal may be 

 expected to furnish Orientalists with much useful material. 



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