Just published, in post 8 vo., price 10s. 6 d. cloth extra, 
Illustrated by a variety of curious plates, 
ORIENTAL FRAGMENTS. 
By MAJOR E. MOOR, F.R.S., F.A,S., &c. 
AUTHOR OF “ THE HINDOO PANTHEON,” ETC. 
“ Spoils of the gorgeous East — whence, hidden long 
Beneath the shroud of ages, they are brought, 
With all their dazzling mystery about them, 
To raise new wonders here.” 
*< These are delightful reminiscences, from the pen of a gallant old Soldier. We 
rejoice at the various recollections which these ‘ Fragments’ bring to our memory.’ 
J Naval and Military Gazette. 
** Learned, quaint, rambling, instructive, and amusing, — these lucubrations may 
often be taken up with advantage ; offering much to attract the attention ot the 
learned, and of the miscellaneous reader.”— Literary Gazette. 
tt i s very gratifying to receive works of this description. We commit this book 
to the good will of every body interested in India, and the lands that lie * under the 
Sun to those who can linger with delight over these pleasant researches into 
Oriental curiosities.” — Atlas . 
tl Various, gossipy, and minutely curious.”- Spectator . 
«< Religious legends, and literary curiosities of various kinds, connected with the 
East are here set forth in great, profusion : many of them will afford the reader a 
most’ agreeable surprise > and furnish themes for future recondite inquiries.^ 
tt The information contained in this volume, is various and interesting; and to 
those attached to the study of philology and etymology, will be considered very 
important. We hope Major Moor may be encouraged to put forth another voiurae 
of Fragments.” — Court Journal . 
« This unmetending volume, by that celebrated Orientalist, Major E. Moor, 
containing a vast deal of curious and instructive matter, for the Oriental scholar 
is not without some reading of a particularly mterest.ng nature for the general 
reader.” — East India Magatine. 
i ike the author’s ‘ Hindoo Pantheon,’ his present volume abounds with learning ; 
and his extensive research is visible in every page : it is, m short, a remarkably 
cuius a, highly interesting work ; and affords much pleasure m the perusal. ^ 
„ Though this volume is full of matters of curiosity ; though it abounds in 
inougn inis v - written in a pleasing and jocular vein, with 
research and readmg ^^leh deS Tnalysl! and Stake, extracts difficult. 
Tlmnarfof most interest to scholars, is that wLr attempt, to prove the all-per- 
vading influence of the Sanscrit language, over most 
“ This is eminently a curious book, abounding in valuable information, extremely 
vaiuabtmtlrTaoiulVtothe logomachis. anc ithe 
auffiojs may, bom the stores enough wherewithal l to > write 
i S m. Ih. ™k! t m .hid. «h„. 
will build excellent edifices.” — Metropolitan. 
SMITH, KLDF.R AND CO., CORNHILL, LONDON. 
