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Literary Intelligence. 



The Journal Asiatique for December 1852, completing its fourth 

 series and 20 vols, contains an interesting letter to M. Mohl by M. 

 Place, on an expedition made by the latter to Arbela from Khorsabad 

 where he is following up the discoveries of Botta. The 2nd paper 

 is by Cherbonneau and is entitled " Documens inedits sur l'here- 

 tique Abou-Yezid-Mokhalled-Ibn-Kidad de Tademket," translated 

 from Ibn Hammad's Chronicle. There is an interesting letter by 

 de Hammer-Purgstall giving the titles of 30 Arab works on horses. 



The January No. has an extract from the Romance of Antar 

 by Gr. Dugat. The subject is historical, and has been treated at length 

 by Caussin de Perceval. The paper is entitled ' Ses jours du bien et 

 Ses jours de mal du Eoi Noman.' The rest of the No. is occu- 

 pied by the conclusion of Du Caurroy's notice of the Musalman 

 Civil Code c rite hanefi.' In the February and March No. Eousseau 

 prosecutes his translation of Et Tidjani, a traveller in Tunis and Tri- 

 poli, and de Meynard commences that of the 4th Part of Thalebi's 

 Yetimet ed-Dehr, which describes the writers of Transoxiana, Khora- 

 san and particularly of Nissapur under the dynasty of the Sama- 

 nides and under the first Guznevide Sultans. The first part of this 

 work was published at Leipzig in 1847, by Dietcrici. Amari contri- 

 butes an article on an old MS. in the Bodleian library, containing 

 the replies of a Spanish philosopher Ibn Sab'in to questions put to 

 him by Frederic II. of Sicily. 



In No. 3 Eousseau's translation is completed, Dugat gives a pa- 

 per entitled E'tudes sur le Traite de Medicine d'Abou Djafar 

 Ahmad (Zad al Mocafar) and Defremery writes on the reign of the 

 Seldjouk Sultan Barkiarok 485 — 498 A. H. from which the power 

 of that family dates the commencement of its decline. The trans- 

 lation of an extract from a work by Ibn Elkouthyiaby Cherbonneau 

 closes the No. 



The June and July Nos. are mostly occupied by correspondence, 

 which comprises a long and interesting letter from M. Eresnel at 

 llillah. Sanguinetti gives the text and translation of a satirical 

 fragment of which the MS. is in the Leyden library. It contains a 



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