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" Kosegarten's 3rd vol. of Tabari is composed entirely of anecdotes 

 connected with the battle of Kadesia, which left Persia at the mer- 

 cy of the Arabs. 



" The philosophy of the Arabs has been illustrated by works by 

 Haarbriicher of Halle, Eenan and Poper, the first of whom has com- 

 pleted the translation of a work on the religions and sects of Scha- 

 ristani. Perron has completed his Precis de jurisprudence Musal- 

 mane, a translation from Khalil Ibn Ishak a jurisconsult of great 

 authority. To this department belong also Baillie's works on the law 

 of sale and the land-tax, and Morley's Digest which are accordingly 

 here noticed. Flugel's Bibliographic Dictionary of Hadji 'khalfa is 

 completed all but the appendix : it now consists of 6 vols, published 

 at the expence of the London Translation Fund. 



" Freytag has completed an edition of the text and translation of 

 Abou Temam's Hamasa, the only extant anthology of five similar 

 collections made by Abou Teniam, a poet of the 3rd century A. H. 

 while snowed up at Hamadan. This was the most brilliant period 

 in Arab literature, when Greek and Indian science was studied for 

 mental culture, while the old desert poetry which expressed the 

 national sentiments in the purest and most idiomatic style, directed 

 the taste and preserved the language. Many of the poems in this 

 collection were composed before and during the time of Muhammad. 

 Another work now completed by Prey tag is an edition of the Fak- 

 ihet el Kholafa by Ibn Arabschah, an author of our 15th century 

 better known by his life of Timour. The text of this was published 

 some time back and to this has been added a small vol. of notes, 

 which were very necessary. The Solwan or Waters of Comfort of 

 Ibn Zafer, a Sicilian Arab of the 1 2th century, has been translated 

 and published by Amari in London. The work is a collection of 

 anecdotes and fables, and its object is to exhort the reader to the 

 exercise of virtue. Of the same character is another work entitled 

 Turkish Evening Entertainments, translated by Mr. Brown of the 

 American Legation at Constantinople, from a Turkish author of the 

 17th century. 



" Dieterici's translation of Ibn Akil's Commentary on the Grammar 

 of Ibn Malik will be welcomed by all who study the philosophy of 

 languages — as will also the Adjroumieh, a text and translation of 



