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Literary Intelligence. 



The Eev. Mr, Long's Catalogue of Bengali Books furnishes much 

 useful information which has not hitherto been accessible. It is 

 but an abstract, however, of a larger one now in the press, and 

 which will be of greater interest. The Catalogue confines itself to 

 printed books, which however may be supposed to comprehend all 

 Bengali compositions of any interest. Apparently the oldest work 

 in MS. yet discovered is the Tippera Raj Mala, an analysis of 

 which was given by the industrious author of this Catalogue in vol. 

 19 of our Journal, but the authenticity of this work was not beyond 

 doubt, and unfortunately the Rajah, notwithstanding the kind exer- 

 tions of Mr. Metcalfe on our behalf, would not allow us the satisfac- 

 tion of examining the original MS. 



Dr. Sprenger has, on the recommendation of the Supreme Govern- 

 ment, obtained the permission of the Hon'ble Court of Directors to 

 complete his Catalogue on the extended plan adopted in his 1st 

 vol. It is stipulated, however, that the work is not to exceed 

 5 vols. 



Dr. Roer has kindly placed at our disposal some letters from Berlin, 

 from which the following translations are extracts. 



" Dr. Steinthal has published an excellent work " Grammatik, Lo- 

 gik and Pschychologie, ihre Principien und ihr Verhaltniss cinander." 

 It is said, that he is to go as French consul or interpreter 

 of the consul to China ; for the last two or three years he has 

 studied Chinese in Paris. A. Regnier, a disciple of Burnouf, has 

 published a very able and exhaustive paper on -the Vedaic language, 

 in connexion with another " on the formation of Greek nouns.'' 

 "We may expect a new edition of Bopp's " Vergleichende Gram- 

 matik" and an English translation of it by Austin (?) (Hertford), 

 which is to appear at the same time. The third volume of Lassen's 

 "Indische Alterthums Kunde" is about to be printed at Elberfeld. 

 Dr. Pertsch is preparing an edition of the Taittiriya Aranyaka for 

 which he has collected materials in England. I suppose, Baboo 

 Rajendra does not intend to include this in his edition of the Tait- 

 tiriya Brahmana. It would be a great pity, if two editions of the 

 same work should be published." 



