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Literary Intelligence, Correspondence, &c. 
Dr. Sprenger writes in a letter to the President, dated Wabern, 
1st October, 1862. 
“ The Philologen Yersammlung at Augsburg was again well attend¬ 
ed, particularly by Vienna Orientalists; I had expected Paverty 
would come, and was disappointed not to find him there. Some inter¬ 
esting papers were read, on Himyaritic and Sinaitic Inscriptions, on 
the present state of Turkey, on Egyptian Archaeology, on Babylonian 
Antiquities, &c. These meetings are rather riotous, and for this 
reason, fatiguing, but very useful for restoring the harmony which 
literary quarrels have disturbed in the course of the year. 
“ I wish Mr. Thomas might succeed in obtaining the Tabakati 
Nasiry from Lady Elliot. It is a very important book. Should you 
not succeed and feel inclined to publish a Persian text, you might 
choose extracts from Ways wa Eamyn, of which the only copy known 
to me is in your Library. On this interesting work see Ouseley, p. 
45, Hajy Khalyfu, No. 14318, and my Catalogue of Oudh, p. 338. 
As your MS. is defective, you cannot give the whole work, nor is it 
desirable, but you could fill two fasciculi with extracts. 
“ I am just now engaged in collecting notes on the history of 
Geography among the Arabs. Dr. Peschel, the Editor of the Aus- 
land, prepares a work on the History of Geography for the press, 
and the portion of his labour which refers to the knowledge of the 
Arabs of the Southern Seas, he intends to write in the form of letters 
addressed to your servant with a view that I might add notes. This 
proceeding appears to me rather cruel towards me, inasmuch as I 
should be obliged to enter deeply into a subject on which we shall 
probably never come to clear results ; I therefore prefer to send him 
as many notices as I can find, and to leave him the responsibility of 
the use he may make of them, and the conclusions he may draw 
from them. 
“ Of literary news I only heard that Wiistenfeld, who intends pub¬ 
lishing the large Geograph. Diet, of Yaqut, finds great difficulties in 
establishing a good text for want of good MSS. When I left India, I 
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