MALAY LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 101 
sHUuUis, andin MarspEen’s Malay Grammar. The best recent Ma- 
lay writer was ‘ABDULLAH IBN ‘ABDELKADiR Munshi of Singa- 
pore, who died, it is said of poison, at Mecca, some eight and 
twenty years ago. His autobiography, “ Journey to Kelantan,” 
and “ Pilgrimage to Mecca” are patterns of Malay style, though 
the author’s contact with educated Europeans is traceable in 
them, while his translation (from the Tamil version) of the 
Panchatantra is free from such influence. 
Malay literature is fairly represented in England in the Bri- 
tish Museum, the India Office, and the Royal Asiatic Society, 
and descriptive catalogues ef the Malay MSS. in each of these 
libraries are available. See NiEMANN in the Bidragen, iii. 6, 
p. 96-101 ; VAN DER TuUK in Tijdschrift voor Ned. Indié for 
1849, i. p. 885-400, and in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic 
Society, new series, 1. p, 85-185. An account of the Leyden 
collection, by J. PryNaPPeEt, is given in the Biyjdragen, 111. 5, pp. 
142-178. The finest collection of Malay MSS., upwards of 
400 volumes, is in the library of the Asiatic Society of Batavia. 
See L. W. C. van DEN Bere, Verslag van eene verzameling Ma- 
leische, &c., handschriften, Batavia, 1877. Ifit had not been 
for the loss, by fire, on their passage from India, of three hun- 
dred Malay MSS., the property of the late Sir T. 8. Rarrizs, 
England would now boast of the largest assemblage of Malay 
MSS. in the world. On Malay literature in general, compare 
G. H. Wernpiy, Maleische Spraakkunst, Amsterdam, 1736, 
pp. 227-357 ; E. Jacquet in the Nouveau Journal Asiatique, 
vol. ix. (1832), pp. 97-182, and 222-253; T. J. Newso1p, 
British Setilements in the Straits of Malacca, 1839, vol. 11. pp. 
215-368 ; E. Dutaurier, Mémoire, lettres, et rapports, Paris, 
1843; J. J. pp Ho~uanpEr, Handleiding bij de beoefening der 
Maleische taak en letterkunde, Breda, 1882, pp. 277-388 ; and 
G. K. Niemann, in Bydragen, iii. 1 (1866), pp. 113-46, 333 
Sq. 
R. R. 
| The foregoing paper, which is extracted from the Encyclo- 
pedia Britannica (1883) is from the pen of Dr. REINHOLD 
Rost, the learned librarian of the India Office Library, a 
friend to Oriental research of every description. 
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