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shahee having been prepared for press, is a part of the greater one 

 to carry out which poor Elliott overtaxed himself, and which will 

 yet it is to be hoped be matured and completed under competent 

 management at home. 



The plan which Lieut. Lees, assisted by the Moulvees of the Mad- 

 rasah had formed for publishing al-Zamakhshari's commentary on the 

 Qoran has been so far modified as to include the publication of the 

 text of the latter, which will be given with the ramooz aivqaf or stops 

 between the verses. Underneath this will be printed the above 

 commentary entitled the Kashshaf, to furnish which six or seven 

 copies of the work, some of them of very old date, have been col_ 

 lected from various parts of India. The 1st vol. will, it is hoped, 

 appear in a few months. 



Lieut. Lees is also engaged on an edition in 2 vols. 8vo. of the 

 Tarikh-al-Khalfa by the celebrated Soyootee, being the history 

 of the Arabian Khalifs from the commencement of the reign of 

 Aboo Bakr, while he has nearly ready for publication a Persian 

 work, the Araish i Bozorgan, which is an obituary with short 

 biographical notices of some 250 Mohammedan saints. This is a 

 compilation from numerous authors whose works are not procurable 

 in India or Europe. Moulvee Kabir oodeen Ahmed has given his 

 assistance in editing this last work and Moulvee Abdool Hak is en- 

 gaged on the Tarik-al-Khalfa. 



