Dr. Brandstetter's Malayo-polynesian Researches: 

 An Appreciation. 



There is (or was) in the East, a newspaper claiming to have 

 the largest circulation in Asia, British India excepted. The 

 exception is a big one. If in the same way I were to say that 

 Professor Brandstetter of Lucerne is the soundest and most 

 accurate Malayan scholar in Europe, outside of Holland, I 

 should be merely stating in the fewest words a plain fact which 

 in my judgment, is not as widely known as it deserves to be; 

 and I hope that no one will so far misunderstand my meaning 

 as to imagine that I am attempting to make a scurvy jest at the 

 expense of that learned writer. Under the general title of 

 ' Malayo-Polynesische Forschungen" he has issued a number of 

 very valuable studies on Malayan subjects, whose titles I subjoin 

 in a note for the benefit of all whom it may concern.* There 



* First Series. 



I. Der Natursinn in den altern L : t eraturwerken der Malayen. 

 II. Die Beziehungen des Malagasy zum Malayiscken. 



III. Die Geschichte des Hang Tuwah, ein alterer Malayischer 

 Sittenroman, ins Deutsche ubersetzt. 



IV. Die Geschichte von Konig Indjilai, eine bugische Erza hlung, 

 ins Deutsche ubersetzt. 



V. Die Griindung von VVadjo, eive historische Sage aus Sud- 



west Celebes, ins Deutsche ubersetzt. 

 VI. Das Lehnwort ins Bugischen. 



Second Series. 



I. Die Geschichte v^n Djalalankara, ein Makassarischer Roman, 



in deutscher Sprache nacherzahlt. 

 II. Tagalen und Madeca-sen, eine sprachver-gleichende Abhan- 

 dlung, als Orientierung fur Ethnographen und Sprachforscher. 

 III. (In preparation) Beitrage zur Fixierung der Stellung welche 

 die Sudphilippinischen Idiome innerhalb des Malayo-poly- 

 nesischen Sprachstammes einnehmen. 



R. A.Soc.,No. 42, 1804. 



