270 



Notices of Boohs. 



[NO. 2, NEW SERIES, 



Geneologische Tabellen der Arabeschen Stcemme und Familien von 

 Dr. Ferd. Wastenfeld — Gottingen 1852, Fol. 



Register zn den genealogischen Tabellen with historical and geo- 

 graphical notices, 1853. 



Handbuch Geneologisch etymologisches von Abttbekr Moham- 

 mad bin AL Hasan Ibn Doreid heransgegeben von Ferd. Was- 

 tenfeld — Gottingen 1854, 8vo. 



The indefatigable M. Von Hammer continues the publication 

 of his great work on Arabic Literature ( Literatur geschichte der 

 Araber) of which the 5th vol. containing 1,115 pages appeared in 

 1854 and the 6th extending to 1,169 pages in 1855. 



The Library of the Society possesses a copy of this admirable work 

 presented by the munificence of M. Von Hammer himself. Each 

 vol. commences with a general view of the literature of the epoch 

 of which it treats, followed by biographical sketches of the writers 

 arranged either according to the class of society to which they be- 

 longed or according to the subject of their works ; followed by 

 translations of some of the most remarkable poems. 



The six volumes already published contain notices of more than 

 700 authors and afford a striking example of the patient and labo- 

 rious habits of study and research so remarkably characteristic of 

 the savans of Germany. 



The 2nd and 3rd volumes of the Travels of Ibn Batuta — the text 

 and translations by MM. C. Defremery and Dr. B. E. Sangtji- 

 netti, have been published at the Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris, 

 1854 and 1855. 



M. Kenan is occupied with a valuable philological work on the 

 Semitic languages, the first volume of which appeared in 1855 and 

 received the prize of the Institute. 



It is entitled Histoire Generate el Systeme compare* des langues 

 Semiliques, par Ernest Renan, Paris, 1855, 8vo. 



The fourth volume of the translation of the Sliahnameh of Fir- 

 DAUsi, by M. Jules Mohl, Secretary of the Asiatic Society of 

 Paris, appeared in 1855, 



