Notices of Boohs. 



[NO. 2, NEW SERIES, 



in regard to the identity of the languages of Southern India with the 

 dialects of the Himalaya and Bootan, being more inclined to support 

 the views of Mr. Max Muller on the affiliation existing between the 

 Dravidian, and what is now styled the Scythian group of languages. 



We hope to give a review of this in our next Number. 



A Dictionary, Sanscrit and English, extended and improved from the 

 second edition of the Dictionary of Professor H. H.Wilson, toge- 

 ther with a supplement, grammatical appendices and an index serv- 

 ing as an English-Sanscrit Dictionary, by Theodor Goldstucker, Ber- 

 lin, 1856, large 4to. ; part 1, (80 pages.) 



This is the commencement of the publication of the long expect- 

 ed 3rd edition of Professor Wilson's dictionary. 



The preparation of this new edition has been undertaken by Mr. 

 Goldstucker alone. It contains considerable additions more par- 

 ticularly of those vedu terms which Professor Wilson systematically 

 excluded. 



Mr. Goldstucker promises to insert in a supplement those words 

 whose meaning he has not been able satisfactorily to explain as 

 well as all new words he may meet with in the course of publica- 

 tion. The work will appear in parts, each part to contain 80 pages 

 — price 87 fr. 50 centimes. 



We are glad to have to announce the publication of a work in 

 connection with our own Presidency, viz. a new edition of Dr. 

 Baikie's Booh on the Neilgherries. It is thus noticed by the Hur- 

 Jcaru. 



" Mr. W. H. Smoult has got up with great trouble and expense 

 an edition of an account by R. Baikie, Esq., m. d., of the Neilgher- 

 ries, their topography, climate, soil and productions, and of the effects 

 of the climate on the European constitution. The subject matter of 

 the work is of great interest to very many persons in this commu- 

 nity, but the point which we are most disposed to dwell upon is the 

 admirable style in which Mr. Smoult has contrived to get the work 

 illustrated by an artist of the name of Fraser, a stranger we believe 

 amongst us and who is about to try his fortune in another land, 

 unless perhaps the local Government has the good sense to secure 



