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tution of Wukfs, two decisions by Turkish courts on questions 

 arising out of them being given at length. Then follows a notice 

 by Mr. Kenan of a fragment of a gnostic work, bearing the absurd 

 title of the Testament of Adam, and forming a portion of the 

 Syriac fragments in the Vatican Library. The third paper is the 

 continuation of Du Caurroy's ' Legislation Sunnite, rite hanen' a 

 series of articles which will now be stopped, the writer having died 

 in November last. 



The January No. for 1 854, contains the first of a series of three 

 Memoires on the Administrative and Municipal Institutions of China 

 by M. Bazin. There is then an analysis of a very interesting 

 treatise on sword blades, written in our 14th century — De Hammer, 

 who is the contributor, draws attention to the comparatively subor- 

 dinate regard in which the Arabs held the Damascus blade intro- 

 duced into Europe by the Crusaders. 



De Saulcy's reading of the Behistoun inscription, prefaced by a 

 few words of explanation of his reasons for differing from Eawlin- 

 son, occupies the whole of the February number of this Journal. 



The American Oriental Society have published an extra No. of 

 their Journal for the reception of two translations of Tamul works 

 by Mr. Hoisington of Ceylon, and for an article by Mr. Mason of 

 Tavoy headed ' Mulamuli,' being the abridgment of a volume trans- 

 lated into Talaing from the Shan language, at Labong in 1768, but 

 written originally in Pali. The titles of the Tamul works are 

 i Tattuva Kattalei,' or Law of the Tattuvam, and ' Siva-Gnana- 

 Potham/ or instructions in the knowledge of God. 



A notice appended to this No. announces the rules which have 

 been laid down by the United States Missionaries for the uniform 

 spelling of Armenian and Turkish proper names. The rules have 

 been drawn up by a Committee sitting at Constantinople, and it is 

 much to be hoped, that this example will be followed by orientalists 

 generally. 



The long expected memoir on the Scythic version of the Behistan 

 inscription by Mr. Norris, for which the publication of the 1st part 

 of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society had been kept back, 

 has made its appearance. Besides facsimiles and transcripts of the 

 inscription with a verbal translation of it, the memoir contains a 



