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the base of the work. But really useful as this compilation is, it 

 can never be what a Thesaurus is. On such a work Quatremere 

 has now been engaged for forty years, and its publication is anxious- 

 ly looked forward to. 



" Chodzko's Persian Grammar or 'Principes de 1' Iranien moderne 

 will be most useful, not only to such as desire to study the language 

 now actually spoken in Persia, but to philologists. The same author 

 has commenced the publication of a collection of Taziehs under the 

 title of ' Eepertoire du theatre Persan,' — His MS. is from the 

 library of Futteh AH Shah and contains 82 dramas. A translation 

 of the whole collection will follow. 



" The Bostan of Sadi and the Fragments of Ibn Iemin have been 

 translated into German verse by Schlechta at Vienna, and de Schach 

 at Berlin has similarly translated some of the Episodes of Ferdousi's 

 Shahnameh. Bland's century of Persian Ghazals introduces ten 

 poets, whose works have not yet been published in Europe. The 

 history of Persian poetry on which this author has now for some 

 time been employed, and for which he has collected a magnificent 

 supply of MSS., is anxiously looked for. Another translation has 

 been made of the Gulistan by Eastwick, and a punctuated edition 

 of the text with the necessary vowel marks has been published by 

 Dr. Sprenger. Col. Ouseley moreover has brought out a good edi- 

 tion of the text of the Anvari Soheilee, which was much wanted in 

 Europe. 



" New editions of Eerdousi, Hafiz and other works from the litho- 

 graphic presses of Teheran and Tabriz have reached Europe, and the 

 Dabistan has been republished at Bombay. 



" In Sanskrit the study of Yedic literature engrosses every year 

 more attention. Langlois has completed his translation of the Big 

 Veda. Both and Whitney are engaged in editing the Atharva and 

 Weber is continuing to publish the White Tadjur. Boer will 

 soon be commencing with the Black Tadjur and still prosecutes his 

 task of publishing in the Bibliotheca Indica a complete series of the 

 Upanishads. Weber's Essay on Indian literature, which is devoted 

 mainly to the Vedic period, is a most interesting discussion of sub- 

 jects, which thirty years ago few had the opportunity of making 

 themselves acquainted with. Barthelemy St. Hilaire's Memoir on 



