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Another instructive paper by the President Dr. Stevenson on the 

 Cave Inscriptions, Dr. Impey's description of the Koolvee caves, 

 sent to tins Society some months back by the author, and a collec- 

 tion of communications from Mr. Erere on antiquities in Scinde 

 complete the No. 



No. II. of the Zeitschrift of the German Oriental Society has 

 a philological paper by Dr. Hitzig, in which is discussed the origin 

 of the names of three cities in Syria — Mabug, (Hieropolis) Damas- 

 cus, and Tadmor. Grotefend, whose death has since been announc- 

 ed, explains some of the more modern records in the Babylonian 

 Cuneiform character, and Eiickert compares Mohl's edition of the 

 Shahnameh Math the Calcutta edition. Professor Holtzmann's 

 essay on the 2nd class of Achsemenian Cuneiform writiug is con- 

 tinued, after an interval of more than a year, and a translation by 

 Professor Fleischer of an Arabic MS. on the statistics of Damascus 

 completes the original contributions. 



Prom the Westminster Eeview for April we learn that Benfey has 

 published a Chrestomathia of Sanskrit works which contains l an 

 excellent exposition of the laws of Sanskrit metre.' The selection 

 however is entirely from already published texts. Monier Williams' 

 edition of Sakuntala is mentioned as being a still more reliable text 

 than Bohtlingk's German edition. The matter of the Indian Scholia 

 is given in English notes with frequent translations, and explanations. 

 Mr. Cowell of Oxford has published both text and translation of the 

 Prakrita-Prakasa of Vararuchi, with the commentary of Bhamaha. 

 Dr. Arnold of Halle has published an Arabic Chrestomathia consist- 

 ing of selections from new and mainly unknown works. Like Kose- 

 garten's it contains a glossary though a less full one. The first Fas- 

 ciculus (there will be six) of Vuller's Lexicon is out — its contents 

 are strictly confined to Persian words. Spiegel's Avesta, of which 

 the 1st vol. containing the Yendidad is published, is said fully to 

 maintain the deserved celebrity of the Imperial Press at Yienna, 

 where new Zend types have been prepared for the work. 



Major Cunningham's volume on the Bhilsah Topes which has late- 

 ly been received from England, works up the mass of materials stored 

 in this journal, and the results of his own and Lieut. Maisey's 

 examination of the Sanchi and its contiguous topes into a connected 



