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his footsteps. That there will he 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, by Mrs. 

 Colin MacKenzie, under the title of Six years in India ; Delhi 

 the city of the great Mogul, ivith an account of the various tribes in 

 Hindoostan, Hindoo, Sikhs Affghans, fyc. 



Our Indian Army ; a Military History of the British Empire in 

 the East. By Captain Rafter. 



Dacoitee in Excelsis ; or the spoliation of Oude by 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. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



The Managing Committee of the Madras Literary Society and 

 Auxiliary of the Royal Asiatic Society, Thursday evening the 

 13th of August, and 10th 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 a3 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. 



