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The third volume of the Big Veda Sanhita with the commentary 

 of Sayana Chakya, by M. Max Mtjller, has been published and 

 copies are on their way to India. 



Another translation of the Hitopadesa has appeared at Paris by 

 M. Lancereau. It is very neatly got up in 12mo. and is enriched 

 with interesting notes tracing the origin and history of the several 

 fables and tales. 



The first complete translation of the Persian version of the same 

 work, the Anvari Soheili of Hoseyn Vaz al Cashafi, by Pro- 

 fessor Eastwick, was published by Austin of Hertford in 1854. 



From the same Press has likewise issued a new edition of the 

 text of the Bhagavat Gita with a translation by J. Cockburn 

 Thompson, 1855. 



The VII. No. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 for 1856, which has lately been received, is occupied by an index of 

 the matter contained in the previous volumes from I. to XXIII. and 

 of volumes XIX. and XX. of the Asiatic Researches. It is fol- 

 lowed by a supplement repairing omissions in the first and by three 

 special indices— «1. of the Numismatic matter contained in the Jour- 

 nal ; 2. of translations of ancient inscriptions, reprinted from the 

 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. VI. and continued to the 

 end of 1854; and 3, a geological and mineralogical index to the 

 Gleanings of Science, Asiatic Researches and the Journal of the 

 Society. 



A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian, or South Indian Fa- 

 mily of Languages, by the Rev. R. Caldwell, London, 8vo. has just 

 been received. 



Mr. Caldwell has labored for the last seventeen years as a Mis- 

 sionary in the South of India. During a recent visit to England he 

 completed a Comparative Grammar of the Languages of Southern 

 India, the family of which he divides into nine principal branches, 

 viz. Tamil, Teloogoo, Canarese, Malayalum, Tolu,Toda,Kota,Gond, 

 and Khond. He has discussed in detail the connexion these dialects 

 have with each other, as well as that of the whole family with the 

 families of other languages. He is opposed to Mr. Hodgson's theory 



