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his 'footsteps. That there will be found such others willing to aid 
in the good work we feel assured. 
As more consonant with the times though of less literary impor- 
tance, there have been announced within the last month or two ; 
A new edition of The Mission the Ca'np and the Zenana, hij Mrs. 
Colin Mackenzie, under the title of Six years in India ; Delhi 
the city of the great M<>gid, with an account of the various tribes in 
Ilijidoostan, Hindoo, Sihhs Affghans, &,^c. , 
Our Indiayi Army ; a Military History of the British Empire in 
the East, By* Captain Rafter. 
Dacoitee in Excelsis ; or the spoliation of Otide hy the East India 
Company. 
Whatever the aim may have been of the author of this last men- 
tioned publication, whether to get up a diversion in favor of the 
Oude Ladies at home, or to stimulate attention to Indian affairs, he 
could not well have selected a subject more mal-apropos to the 
present time. Neither he nor his subject will attract much sym- 
pathy just now. 
The several publications and pamphlets elicited in explanation 
of the present disastrous mutiny in Bengal are too numerous to 
mention. 
PEOCEEDINGS. 
The Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society and 
Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Thursday evening the 
13th of August, and lOth of September, 1857. 
The Honorable Walter Elliot in the Chair. 
The usual Financial Statement had been read, it was decided 
that the Funds were in after a satisfactory state, such as to allow of 
the Library being stocked with such Standard works on different 
subjects as in the opinion of the Committee were calculated to 
complete the different branches of Literature. 
