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FRUBNER’S ORIENTAL SERIES, “A knowledge of the commonplace, at least, of Oriental literature, philo- sophy, and zeligion is as necessary to the general reader of the present day as an acquaintance with the Latin and Greek classios was a generation or so ‘ago, Immense strides havo heen made within the present contury in these branches of learning; Sanskrit has been brought within the range of accurate philology, and its invaluable ancient literature thoroughly investigated ; the Janguage and sacred books of the Zoronstrians have been laid bare; Egyptian, Assyrian, and other records of the remote past have been deciphered, and a group of scholars speak of still more recondite Acadian and Hittite monn- ‘ments ; but the results of oll the scholarship that has been devoted to these subjects have beon almost inaccessible to the public because they wero con- tainod for the most part in learned or exponsive works, or scattered through. out the numbers of scientific periodicals, Messrs, TaUpwer & Co., in nepirit, of enterprise which does them infinite orodit, havo determined to supply the constantly-inoreasing want, and to give in a popular, or, at least, a oompre- hensive form, all this mass of knowledge to the world.”—Times, Second Edition, post 8vo, pp. xxii —748, with Map, cloth, price 218, THE INDIAN EMPIRE : ITS PEOPLE, HISTORY, AND PRODUCTS. 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Br MARTIN HAUG, Pz.D., Late of the Universities of Tibingen, Géttingen, and Bonn ; Superintendent ‘of Sanskrit Studies, and Professor of Sanskrit in the Poona College. Eprrep axp ENtanGED BY Dz, E, W. WEST. ‘To which is added a Biographical Memoir of the late Dr. Have by Prof. E. P. Evans. |. History of the Researches into the Sacred Writings and Religion of the 1. Bptomla from the Earle Times down to the Frewuts II, Languages of the Parsi Seriptures, TIL ‘The Zend-Avesta, or the Seripture of the Parsia. 1V. The Zoroastrian Religion, as to its Origin and Development. 101 Basays ‘Sacred Ta Writings, and Religion of . lato De Martin Hauge siiiod by Desk. W: Wont? 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It contains anthentic texts. gathored from anciont Sunontcal books, and generally connected with somo. iueldont in. tho history of Guddbos_ Thetr great interest, howevor, consiata in the light which thoy throw Upon dvorydny life in India at the remoto period at which they were written, and upon fho'Inothod of teaching adopled by the foundor of tho religion, » Tho method Employed was principally parable, and the slmpliclty of the tales and the oxeelience Gf the morals inouleated, as well us the strange hold which they havo retained tipon ‘hig mins of mllilons of people, make tem very remarkablo study." Timer Mr. Beal Dy Weneceanible in an English dress, has added to tho yreat ser- ‘ices ho has alteady rendered tothe comparative study of roligions history."=-deodems, Valublo aa exhibiting the doctriuo of the Duddhists in {ts purest, least adul- erated form, ft brings tbemodern reader faco to face with that eimiplo reed and rule Gfeonduct which won ita way over the minds of myriads, and which ia now nominally Frstowod by 2g milion, wy lar oerld i ater ipl wth one Eeremontes, forgotten itemaxims, perverted its teaching, aud so inverted its leading Principle that religion whose founder deuled a God, wow worships that founder as Tipod blzascit”™Sonteman,TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Second Edition, post 8vo, oloth, pp. xxiv.—360, price 108, 6d. THE HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE. Br ALBRECHT WEBER, ‘Translated from the Second German Edition by JonN Many, M.A., and ‘Tu£oDOR ZACHARIAE, Ph.D., with the sanction of the Author. Dr. Bunter, Inspector of Schools in India, writes :—‘‘ When I was Pro- fessor of Oriental Languages in Elphinstone College, I frequently felt the want of such a work to which I could refer the students.” Professor Cowett, of Cambridge, writes :—“' It will be especially useful to the students in our Indian colleges and universities. 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Grifith’s very spirited rendering is well known to most who aro at all interested in Indian literature, or enjey the tenderness of feeling and rich creative ination of its author."—Indian Antiqua, “Wo are vory glad to welcome © socond edition of Professor Griith’s admirable translation, "Few translations deserve u socond edition bettar."—dthenawn.