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Notices of Books. [no. new series, 
Geneologische Tahellen der Araheschen Stcemme unci Familien von 
Dr. Ferd. Wastenfeld— Gottingeii 1852, Fol. 
Register zu den genealogischen Tahellen with historical and geo- 
graphical notices, 1853. 
Handhuch Geneologisch etymologisches von Abubekr Moham- 
mad BIN AL Hasan Ien Doreid heransgegehen von Ferd. Was- 
tenfeld — Gottingen 1854, 8vo. 
The indefatigable M. Von Hammer continues the publication 
of his great work on Arabic Literature f Literatur geschichte der 
AraherJ of which the 5th vol. containing 1,115 pages appeared in 
1854 and the 6th extending to 1,169 pages in 1855. 
The Library of the Society possesses a copy of this admirable work 
presented by the munificence of M. Von Hammer himself. Each 
vol. commences with a general view of the literature of the epoch 
of which it treats, followed by biographical sketches of the writers 
arranged either according to the class of society to which they be- 
longed or according to the subject of their works; followed by 
translations of some of the most remarkable poems. 
The six volumes already published contain notices of more than 
700 authors and afford a striking example of the patient and labo- 
rious habits of study and research so remarkably characteristic of 
the savans of Germany. 
The 2nd and 3rd volumes of the Travels of Ibn Batuta — the text 
and translations by MM. C. Defremery and Dr. B. R. Sangui- 
NETii, have been published at the Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris, 
1854 and 1855. 
M. Renan is occupied with a valuable philological work on the 
Semitic languages, the first volume of which appeared in 1855 and 
received the prize of the Institute. 
It is entitled Histoire Generate et Sysleme compare des laiigues 
Semitiques, par Ernest Renan, Paris, 1855, 8vo. 
The fourth volume of the translation of the SliaTinameh of Fir- 
DAUsi, by M. Jules Mohl, Secretary of the Asiatic Society of 
Paris, appeared in 1855. 
