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purchase of the collection was sanctioned. No offer having been 

 made on the 13th April, and one by the French Government after 

 the day of the sale not having been agreed to, the negotiations on 

 the part of Prussia were carried on by Ch. Bunsen through Pro- 

 fessor Hofer, and on the 20th May the purchase was effected for the 

 sum of £1250.' 



" On the plan of his catalogue Dr. Weber remarks (p. xxii. pre- 

 face), — 'After the names of the author and the work have been 

 given, it is stated, where and by whom the work has been edited. 

 Then follow the number of the chapters and of the pages, with the 

 signature of the copyist, the date of the copy, the extent of each 

 chapter, the number of its verses, and its name. Then the com- 

 mencement of the work is given together with such dates from its 

 introduction and its close as may throw light on the person and the 

 circumstances of the author and the time he wrote. When describ- 

 ing works of importance and especially such as have been hitherto 

 unknown, I have added the commencement of each single chapter 

 and sometimes also other extracts ; on the other hand, I have given 

 as short a notice as possible of works which have been published, 

 or are in the course of publication, unless the MS. exhibited a great 

 difference from the published text. 



" ' The arrangement of the different parts depends upon the place 

 which they respectively occupy in the literary history of India, and 

 in this respect I refer to my lectures on the history of Indian liter- 

 ature. Within every division I have arranged the numbers, as far 

 as practicable, chronologically, with this restriction, however, that 

 the commentaries and similar writings are placed next to those 

 works which they explain, or of which they treat.' 



" This arrangement of his literary materials is in accordance 

 with the rules of logical analysis, and Dr. Weber was fully justified 

 in rejecting the division of old Hindu writers by which the whole 

 body of Sanskrit literature is classed under three principal heads 

 which have 14 subdivisions. That part of the catalogue which 

 refers to Yedaic literature, is the most comprehensive, but the whole 

 work has been executed in a scholarly manner and with great accu- 

 racy. Dr. Weber's lectures, above quoted, have solved and elucidated 

 many questions previously obscure or lost sight of. 



