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Extract.—" In adverting to the condition of the Oriental Transla- 

 tion Fund; — an institution, the success of which must be a matter of 

 interest to every Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Council are 

 happy to state that it continues to enjoy the support of a large number 

 of the patrons of Oriental literature, both at home and abroad; and 

 that its operations are carried on with a zeal and activity fully commen- 

 surate to its means. The most recent of its publications are two valu- 

 able Sanscrit works, with Latin translations, one translated by Dr. 

 Stenzler, and entitled the ' Kumara Sambhava,' being an ancient 

 Sanscrit poem attributed to Kalidasa, who flourished a century before 

 the Christian era ; the other entitled the « Rig Veda Sanhita,' a col- 

 lection of sacred hymns from the Vedas, translated and edited by the 

 lamented Dr. Rosen. To his translation the editor designed to add 

 extensive critical annotations, but only a few sheets of them were 

 finished at the time of his decease. The work is consequently deprived 

 of the valuable additions contemplated by the learned Doctor ; but, as 

 it is, it remain s a monument of his great philological acquirements, and 

 of his laborious ardour in the study of this highly polished and classical 

 language of India. The disappointment of the expectations of the 

 Committee occasioned by this melancholy event will however be ob- 

 viated by the kindness of Professor Wilson, who has undertaken to 

 prepare a translation of the entire work into English, with notes illus- 

 trative of the peculiarities of the language of the original text, and of 

 the religious system of the Vedas. 



" The loss sustained both by the Royal Asiatic Society, and the 

 Oriental Translation Committee, in the decease of Dr. Rosen will 

 long be deplored, and his merits as a man and a scholar long remem- 

 bered. The Committee recorded upon their minutes, and communicated 

 to his father, the expression of their deep regret ; and many Members, 

 both of the Society and the Committee, readily subscribed a sufficient 

 sum to erect a marble monument over his grave, as a small but due 

 tribute to his memory. 



" Another volume of the Arabic Bibliographical Dictionary, edited 

 and translated into Latin by Professor Flugel, will appear in a few 

 weeks ; as will also the first volume of M. Garcin de Tassy's ' Histoire 

 de la Literature Hindoui et Hindoustani,' containing notices of many 

 hundred Eastern authors and their writings, evidencing much acute and 

 laborious research. Besides these, the printing of Mr. W. F. Thomp- 

 son's translation of the Akhlak-i-Jalaly, from the Persian of Fakir J any 

 Muhammad Asaad, is completed. Mr. Thompson has entitled his work 

 * Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People, exhibited in its 

 professed connexion with the European, so as to render either an intro- 



