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spirited criticism in verse of the principal Arab tribes by different 

 ancient poets. 



Mold's Annual Eeport published in the August No. of the 

 Journal Asiatique announces the intended publication by the Paris 

 Asiatic Society of a new series of works called the ' Collection des 

 auteurs Orientaux.' The first work of the series is the Travels of 

 Ibn Batutah. The text is to be accompanied by a translation by 

 Defremery and Sanguinetti, and will occupy 4 vols., of which the 

 first will by this time have been published. The second work which 

 is in the press is Masoudi's ' Prairies d'or,' and the third will be 

 Ibn Hischam's biography of Muhammad. The work is to be brought 

 out in an inexpensive form. 



The Eeport reviews the labours of the "West and of the East so 

 far as they are known in Europe, in the field of oriental literature 

 during the last two years. A summary, which can scarcely be more 

 than an enumeration of the works reviewed, will give information of 

 interest to many of the distant readers of this journal. 



" Hammer's Histoire de la litterature Arabe is already in our 

 Library. The same author has since published three memoirs on 

 Muhammadan mythology and demonology, on the origin and com- 

 position of Arab names, and on the form and manufacture of bows 

 and arrows as used by the Arabs and Turks. Eeinaud and Deren- 

 bourg's new edition of ' Les Seances de Hariri' is accompanied by 

 an Arab commentary chosen by Silvestre de Sacy and by a detailed 

 notice of Hariri which the discovery, in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, 

 of new and authentic documents has enabled the editors to compile. 

 * Ibn al Athiri Chronicon' is the title of a work published at Upsal 

 by M. Tornberg, consisting of the 1 1th vol. of the Chronicle of Ibn 

 al Athir, one of the principal sources from which later authors have 

 drawn their information. This volume comprizes the period be- 

 tween 527 and 583 A. H., but it is unaccompanied by either preface 

 or translation. 



" At Leyden has appeared the text of the Travels of IbnDjobeir 

 an Arab of Spain who wrote in the 12th century of our era. It is 

 edited by Mr. Wright who has promised shortly to publish a trans- 

 lation. That of another work of the same character, being the 

 travels of Scheikh al Tidjani in Tunis and Tripoli, by M. Alphonse 

 Eousseau, has, as above stated, been published in the Journal 



