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Hindustani in Paris* 



[No. 11, NSW sekies. 



IV. — Discours de M. Garcin de Tassy, membre de VInstitut a t 

 ouverture du cours d' Hindoustani, d VEcole Imperiale des Langues 

 Orientates vivantes, le 7 Fevrier 1861. 



Paris, Henri Plon. 



We have to acknowledge with many thanks the very interesting 

 opening address delivered on the 7th February last by our distin- 

 guished Honorary Member, M. Garcin de Tassy, the learned Hin- 

 dustani Professor at the Imperial School at Paris, specially devot- 

 ed to the study of the living Eastern languages. 



M. Garcin de Tassy is as remarkable for the singular ability he 

 displays as a teacher, as for the invariable kindness and courtesy 

 he has always shown to all Englishmen who attend his lectures. 

 M. de Tassy was the favourite pupil of the late eminent Sanscrit 

 scholar, M. Burnouf, and his annual Lectures and numerous pub- 

 lished works have constituted him the legitimate successor to the. 

 European reputation of that great Orientalist, his master and friend. 



Numerous references and allusions in this opening address prove 

 that M. de Tassy has many valued correspondents among the ori- 

 ental scholars of England and India, and that he eagerly and at- 

 tentively watches the progress of Hindustani literature in the va- 

 rious parts of India where it is cultivated. He notices the Hin- 

 dustani newspapers and periodicals which have appeared since 

 1859, at Surat, Ajmir, Peshawur and Delhi; and the detailed his- 

 tory of the Indian rebellion, " Tarikh-i-baghawat-i-Hind," by 

 Mukand Lai, Sub Assistant Surgeon and Anatomical Lecturer at 

 the Agra Medical College. 



M. de Tassy also describes the Hindustani " matinee musi- 

 cale," given at Madras in December 1859, by an Indian singer of 

 great talent, a pupil of the celebrated poet, Daya Ram, author of 

 the " Daya-vilas," or Pleasures of Clemency. 



M. de Tassy notices the articles in recent numbers of this Jour- 

 nal (N. Ser. No. VIII. October— March 1858-59, and No. X. Oc- 

 tober—March 1859-60,) by Messrs. Walter Elliot, W. Bayley, M. 

 Norman and the Revd. Dr. Caldwell, on writing Oriental langu- 

 ages in the Roman character. It will be gratifying to those who 

 have laboured and take an interest in this subject, to know that 



