.tan.— mar. 1857.] Notices of Boohs. £69 



cloud. It is thought that the new worm may prove commercially 

 important, and Government is solicited to institute experiments re- 

 garding its productive powers. In connection with silk it was 

 announced at the late meeting of the Society, that the new plan of 

 manufacturing silk directly from the bark of the mulberry tree is 

 rapidly gaining ground. Signor Lottebi, the inventor, announces 

 that four companies have been started in Europe for carrying out 

 the system, one of which has already paid him down 25,000/. for 

 the privilege. "-—Allen's Indian Mail, 30th Jan, 1857. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Oriental Literature, 



The Poems of the Hudsailis, edited in the Arabic from an ori- 

 ginal MS. in the University of Leyden and translated with annota- 

 tions by J. Q. L. Kosegarten ; vol. I. containing the Arabic 

 text, London, 1854, 4to. 



This work is now in course of publication by the Council of the 

 Oriental Translation Fund. The first volume contains only the Arabic 

 text. M. Kosegarten purposes to give a complete translation 

 in the second and the remainder of the text in the third. 



This collection of poetical compositions or Dewans contains the 

 National poems of a tribe of Bedouins — the Hudsailis or Hodeilites 

 and belongs to the same class of compositions before the JEra of Mo- 

 hammad as the Moallakat, the Hamasa of Bohtori and the Eitab- 

 al-Aghani of which latter work Mr. Kosegarten has also com- 

 menced the publication. The MS. which is a unique copy, in the 

 Library at Leyden, is incomplete, the 2nd volume only being in 

 existence but it contains the commentary of Asstjkari, the com- 

 piler of the work. 



In connection with the literature of this epoch are the Ansab or 

 geneological tables of the Arab races published by M. Wastenfeld 

 at Gottingen from the writings of Mohammad bin al Hasan ien 

 Dqreid, a poet and philologist of the 3rd century of the Hijri, 



