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Settlements lias been for some time exhausted. The work 

 is no longer in type, and although doubtless some copies 

 remain in European booksellers' shops, this fact appears to 

 be a sufficient excuse for asking whether the Government 

 and our learned Societies ought not, at the present juncture, 

 to do something towards producing a Malay-English Dicti- 

 onary, worthy to rank with the work of L' Abbe Favre, and 

 with the Malay-Dutch dictionaries of Von Dewall, Pijnappel 

 and Klinkert. L' Abbe Favre has generously given leave 

 for an English translation of his work to be published, but 

 to print an edition of 500 copies would entail an expendi- 

 ture of m jre than £1,000; too large a risk for any individual. 

 And Favre's work, excellent as it is, has some mistakes and 

 deficiencies : the latter notably in the botanical information. 

 At least it is to hoped that the matter will not be suffered 

 to di^op. 



L. C. B. 



