21 Mr Cull on the recent Progress of Ethnology. 



" Within the last six weeks (January 6, 1853) I have re- 

 ceived vocabularies of several new Borneon and Moluccan 

 languages." 



I am anxiously waiting for the continuation of Mr Logan's 

 chapters on these languages, for he has already thrown a 

 flood of light on the Ethnology of the Malays and the Poly- 

 nesians. 



A valuable contribution to our knowledge of Buddhism in 

 Burmah is made by the Rev. P. Bigandet, in a translation 

 from a Burmese MS. of a legend of the Burmese Buddha, 

 called " Gaudama/' The MS. was brought from Ava, which 

 is a great seat of Buddhist learning. The original text was 

 in the Pali, from which it had been translated into the Bur- 

 mese language. 



Another contribution to our knowledge of Buddhism, as it 

 exists in Camboja, entitled, •' Notice of the Religion of the 

 Cambojans," taken from a MS. of M. Miche, Bishop of 

 Dansara, also appears in vol. vi. of Mr Logan's Journal. 

 " Whoever has sojourned in Camboja will have remarked 

 certain points of doctrine difficult to reconcile to each other, 

 and even with those mentioned in this notice. There is 

 nothing wonderful in this. Some are taught in books, others 

 are the popular beliefs. Moreover, it is not unusual to hear 

 the Cambojans say amongst themselves, Such a pagoda does 

 not teach the same as a neighbouring one : their books do 

 not even always agree." Knowing the extensive area over 

 which Buddhism prevails, we might expect it to vary both in 

 doctrine and practice ; but it must be confessed, that until 

 this article appeared we had no notion that neighbouring 

 pagodas varied in their teaching, 



" A Manual of Buddhism, by the Rev. R. Spence Hardy." 

 This is a valuable contribution to the literature of our science, 

 as it ably answers the question, " What is Buddhism !" The 

 manual is not a work written by the author after the mere 

 consultation of Singhalese writings on the subject, but is 

 itself an actual translation from Singhalese MSS. So that 

 the work is not a view of Buddhism by a Christian, but by a 

 Buddhist, and is, therefore, one of authority. The study of 

 this work, in connection with the " Eastern Monachism" of 



