
1865.] Literary Intelligence, 45 
Lrrerary INTELLIGENCE. 
The large bronze statue of Buddha which was exhumed at Sooltan- 
gunge by Mr. Harris and which has been figured in this Journal, has 
reached England and been presented by Mr. T. Thornton to the town 
of Birmingham. 
Capt. Lees was under a misimpression when he announced at the 
last August meeting that the Elliot MSS., now under publication in 
England by Mr. E. B. Cowell and Dr. Reinhold Rost, were being 
published by our Society. The offer of assistance, which, on the 
recommendation of our Philological Committee, our Council sent to 
Lady Elliot in June 1863, through our Honorary Agent in London, 
Mr. E. Thomas, was not at once accepted, and in the mean time, 
Mr. Cowell’s return to England enabled her ladyship to make other 
and to her more acceptablearrangements. The historical materials left oy 
Sir H. Elliot, are to be published in 3 volumes, edited by Mr. Cowell, 
under the title of ‘ The History of India as told by its own historians,’ 
while M. Rost is to bring out a complete edition of the Glossary 
under that of ‘Memoirs on the history, philology and ethnic distri- 
bution of the races of the N. W. Provinces of India.’ The History is 
not to contain any oriental text. 
M. Jules Mohl in announcing its projected publication in the Journ. 
Asiatique, makes the following remarks. 
“ Jenesuis pas, en général, grand partisan des ouvrages posthumes ; 
mais je suis heureux de voir que l’on sauve de l’oubli tout ce qui peut 
se publier des matériaux préparés et élaborés par un homme aussi 
distingué par le coeur, l’esprit et le savoir, que Sir H. Elliot, qui 
était certainement un des hommes les plus remarquables parmi le 
grand nombre des savants que le service de la Compagnie des Indes 
a formés. On ne leur a jamais rendu en Angleterre la méme justice 
que sur le continent, et je crois qu’il en sera de méme des ouvrages 
posthumes dont je parle ici.” 
Mr. Cowell, we hear, has also undertaken the continuation of 
Wilson’s translation of the Rig Veda. 
Brockhaus has undertaken to publish M. Haug’s ‘ Religion of the 
Zoroastrians,’ which is to be in two volumes, the first to contain the 

