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The third volume of the Big Veda Sanhita with the commentary 
of Sayana Chabya, by M. Max Mulleb, has been published and 
copies are on their way to India. 
Another translation of the Hitopadesa has appeared at Paris by 
M. Lancereau. It is very neatly got up in 12mo. and is enriched 
with interesting notes tracing the origin and history of the several 
fables and tales. 
The first complete translation of the Persian version of the same 
work, the Anvari Soheili of Hoseyn Vaz al Cashaei, by Pro- 
fessor Eastwick, was pubjished by Austin of Hertford in 1854. 
From the same Press has likewise issued a new edition of the 
text of the Bhagavat Gita with a translation by J. Cockburn 
Thompson, 1855. 
The VII. No. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
for 1856, which has lately been received, is occupied by an index of 
the matter contained in the previous volumes from I. to XXIII . and • 
of volumes XIX. and XX. of the Asiatic Researches. It is fol- 
lowed by a supplement repairing omissions in the first and by three 
specialindices— 1. of the Numismatic matter contained in the Jour- 
nal ; 2. of translations of ancient inscriptions, reprinted from the 
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. VI. and continued to the 
end of 1854 ; and 3, a geological and mineralogical index to the 
Gleanings of Science, Asiatic Researches and the Journal of the 
Society. 
A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian^ or South Indian Fa- 
mily of Languages, by the Rev. R. Caldwell, London, 8vo. has just 
been received. 
Mr. Caldwell has labored for the last seventeen years as a Mis- 
sionary in the South of India. During a recent visit to England he 
completed a Comparative Grammar of the Languages of Southern 
India, the family of which he divides into nine principal branches, 
viz. Tamil, Teloogoo, Canarese, Malayalum, Tolu,Toda,Kota,Gond, 
and Khond. He has discussed in detail the connexion these dialects 
have with each other, as well as that of the whole family with the 
families of other languages. He is opposed to Mr. Hodgson's theory 
