198 Literary Intelligence. [No. 2. 



perhaps the most interesting contribution to this department of 

 literature. 



" Bazin has collected together his articles in the Journal Asiatique 

 on the learned and popular literature of the Chinese under the 

 Mogul dynasty, and Dr. Medhurst has published the Anglo-Chinese 

 portion of his Dictionary which is compiled principally from the 

 Kang-hi, and will be invaluable to Europeans in China." 



To return to our notice of the continental periodicals. No. 

 4 of the Zeitschrift of the German Oriental Society opens with 

 a paper by Dr. Oslander on the Pre-Mohammedau religion of 

 the Arabs, a subject which he observes has never yet been thorough- 

 ly examined. Caussin de Perceval and Dettinger have added some- 

 thing to the information collected by Pocock, but to enquire into 

 the old Arab religion was not a part of the plan of either. The 

 writer's object here is, to explain the seat and limits of each particu- 

 lar worship which prevailed in Pagan Arabia, as well as its character 

 and meaning. Haug continues his paper on Zend researches and 

 Hammer his extracts from Saalchi. Stenzler has a paper on Paras- 

 karas Grihya Sutra, a work which he describes as forming a supple- 

 ment to Katyayana's Qrauta-sutra, and of the contents of which he 

 gives an abstract. 



No. I. of the same Journal for 1854, is taken up entirely by an 

 elaborate paper on Coins with Pehlevi Legends by Dr. Mordtmann. 

 It is accompanied by ten Plates which give the alphabet and the 

 readings of the figures and of the mints, xlmong the reviews is 

 an interesting notice of Bohtlingk's Grammar and Dictionary of 

 the Jakute language. 



The 1st No. of the Indische Studien for 1853 contains an alpha- 

 betical list of the openings of the several verses in the Eik Sanhita. 

 The list had been commenced by Professor Roth, by whom it was 

 made over to Mr. Whitney, the labours of both being prosecuted to 

 a termination by Pertsch. The only other paper is by the editor 

 and is entitled ' Recent Researches in the field of Buddhism.' It is a 

 review of Spence Hardy's, Burnouf's, and Julien's publications and 

 his remarks on this last work will be found in substance elsewhere. 



