WORKS IN PREPARATION. In Nine Volumes, strong half-morocco, 8vo. Price £3 35. THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA. By W. W. HUNTER, C.I.E., LL.D., Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India. The Imperial Gazetteer furnishes, for the first time, an account of India based upon a Statistical Survey of the Country, and upon an actual enumeration of the people. 'It represents," writes the Governor-General in Council, "a series of local inquiries and comparative statistics, spread over an area but little less than that of all Europe, excepting Russia, and dealing with a population exceeding that of all Europe, less Russia. It forms the only instance of an account of a country being conducted from the initial stage of systematic local survey, district by district, to the final alphabetical arrangement of the results-carried out continuously as regards time and under the uninterrupted direction of one mind. The Systematic Statistical Survey, District by District, makes One Hundred Volumes; their Alphabetical Condensation forms the Nine Volumes of the Imperial Gazetteer." The Imperial Gazetteer of India thus offers to the public the result of these inquiries in a cheap and compendious orm. All features of general interest have been retained, and the historical sections have in some cases been amplified. The task of condensation has been conducted by Mr. Hunter, with the aid of distinguished assistants in England; and he has had the opportunity of revising his materials in India, having travelled over 50,000 miles while engaged in superinending and testing the work. A complete Index will exhibit all the subjects-Economical, Historical, Social and Religious, as well as Geographical-with which the Imperial Gazetteer deals. The First Six Volumes, "ABAR" to "MYSORE," will be published in March, price £2 25. for the Six; the remaining Three, “NAAF" to "ZUTTHUT," will follow in May, price £1 Is. for the Three. As the number of copies for sale will be limited, intending purchasers should send their names as quickly as possible > Messrs. Trübner & Co., 57 & 59, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C. NEW PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATA ORIENTALIA. Edited by EDWARD THOMAS, F.R.S. Vol. II. Part I. (Complete in itself), royal 4to., about 350 pages. THE COINS OF THE JEWS. By FREDERIC W. MADDEN, M.R.S.L., M. Num. Soc. Associé Etranger de la Société Royale de la Numismatique Belge; Foreign Corresponding Member of the Numismatic and This Work embraces nearly all the original matter that has already appeared in the Author's "History of Jewish Coinage" (1964), and its "Supplement " ("Numismatic Chronicle," N.s. 1874-1876), as well as the new critical corrections which bring the subject up to the knowledge of the present day. The object of the work is to give a full and detailed account of all that is known of the Monetary System of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with engravings of every attainable specimen, as well as of the alphabet in use among the Jews and other nations cognate with them. The plan of the work has also been so constructed, that it will be easy to refer to any one period and to ascertain what coins were then in circulation in Judæa, and to what extent the surrounding nations, whether Persians, Greeks or Romans, exercised their influence-either by conquest or superiority of art-upon the Jews. Chapter I. gives a full résumé of the early use of silver and gold as a medium of exchange and commerce among the Hebrews before the Exile, illustrating the employment of the precious metals in Egypt. Assyria, Phoenicia, and Judæa, as gathered from monuments and the text of the Bible, together with illustrations of gold and ring-money, and the various expressions for money made use of in the Old Testament. Chapter II. discusses the title to the invention of coined money and the various materials employed for money, other than the precious metals. Chapter III. reviews the question of ancient Jewish Palæography, and points out how the Semitic alphabets (especially the Jewish) were altered or modified during successive centuries. Chapter IV. refers to the money employed by the Jews after their return from Babylon until the Revolt under the Maccabees; and Chapter V. treats of a class of coins difficult to read and often badly preserved-those of the Asmonæan Princes from B.C. 141 to B.C. 37. Chapter VI. deals with the coins of the Idumæan Princes from the time of Herod I. (B.c. 37) to that of Herod Agrippa II. (A.D. 100). Much attention has been paid to the chronology of this period. Chapters VII. to XI. contain a history of the Jewish coinage during the period when Judæa may be strictly called a Roman Province, with details of those specimens which were minted by the Procurators, and the money struck during the First and Second Revolts of the Jews. Chapter IX. is more especially devoted to the Roman coins struck in Palestine and Rome by the Emperors, commemorating the capture of Judæa; and Chapter XI. gives an account of the coins struck at Elia Capitolina, the name given to Jerusalem when it was rebuilt by the Emperor Hadrian. An Historical Commentary is where needful prefixed and interwoven with the purely Numismatic portion of the work. There are three Appendices: the first relating to the Weights mentioned in the Bible"; the second to the "Money in the New Testament"-the tribute-money, penny, farthing, mite, &c.; the third furnishing a "List of Works and Papers in connection with Jewish Numismatics, published since 1849," which will be of much value to the future student of Jewish coins. To be completed in about Ten Volumes, 8vo. THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE RACES OF MANKIND. BY A. FEATHERMAN. The general features and the systematic arrangement of the parts of which this work is composed are as follows The races of mankind are divided into six different stocks, which have been named, 1. Nigritian (negroes); 2. Melani sians, including Papuas, Australians, Malays and Polynesians; 3. Maranonians, including North and South American Indians, with Ancient Mexico and Peru; 4. Turanians; 5. Aramaeans; and 6. Iranians. Each stock is subdivide into the following branches, the limits of which are either determined by affinity of language, or, where this is impossible by analogy of customs, or physical resemblances of a typical character:-I. NIGRITIANS. I. Takroor Nigritians (equi torial tribes); 2. Koosa Nigritians (Kaffir tribes); 3. Baroa Nigritians (Hottentot tribes); 5. Sooaheli Nigritians (Ea coast and mixed tribes). II. MELANESIANS. I. Papuo-Melanesians, including Australians and Fijians; 2. Malay Melanesians (including Polynesians). III. MARANONIANS. I. Aoneo-Maranonians (Northern tribes); 2. Chiap Maranonians (Central tribes and ancient Mexico); 3. Guarano-Maranonians (Southern tribes). IV. TURANIANS. Mongolo-Turanians; 2. Shyano-Turanians (Chinese, Japanese, and kindred nations); 3. Turco-Tatar-Turanians; Tchudo-Turanians (Finns, Magyars, etc.); 5. Dravido-Turanians (Deccan and other Indian tribes). V. ARAMAEAN 1. Syro-Aramaeans (including Hebrews, Phoenicians, etc.); 2. Lybo-Aramaeans (Ancient Egyptians, Copts Berbe etc.); 3. Arabo-Aramaeans. VI. IRANIANS. 1. Aryo-Iranians (Hindoos, Persians, Caucasians, etc.); 2. Graed Latin-Iranians; 3. Teutono-Iranians; 4. Celto-Iranians; 5. Slavo-Iranians. An introduction to the whole work make a part of the first volume, and will contain the following sections :-I. PRIMEVAL TIME. 1. Tropical Primes Man; 2. Primeval Tribal Communities. II. PRE-Historic Time. I. Extra-Tropical Primitive Man; 2. Stone Ag 3. Reindeer Epoch; 4. Epoch of Tamed Animals; 5. Age of Metals. This treatise will follow up the gradual devel ment of individual man (of course hypothetically), in a social, moral, intellectual and linguistic point of view. The four stocks are considered tropical, and the other two extra-tropical. Having now more certain landmarks furnished the archaeological researches of modern times, upon which historical data may be based, an outline is given of t condition of the extra-tropical races during pre-historic time, extending from the Stone Age to the Age of Metals. explains the discovery of fire as an economical agent, and the manner of producing it; how man became a boat-builde and how he learned to construct a hut ; how accident had conducted him to the discovery of the fusibility and the plas capacity of copper and iron; how from a primeval hunter and fisherman he gradually became a herdsman and a til of the soil. All these matters, upon which many books have been written, and many more might still be written, by no means expatiated upon, but are comprised within the narrow limits of forty pages. The individual nations an tribes which make up the branches have each a separate section devoted to them, which treats of their social history far as the facts have been gathered from the best and most authentic authors in English, French, German, Spanis Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. With some slight modifications the following order will be observed: 1. The geograph or local description of the country, including climate, geology, the nature of the soil, the most characteristic anima vegetable and mineral productions. 2. An epitome of the past history of the people (civilized nations only). 3. T race distinction of the population in general. 4. Physical characteristics. 5. Moral character and intellectual develop ment. 6. Habitation and furniture. 7. Dress, ornaments, mode of dressing the hair and cosmetic appliances. 8. Food manner of eating, culinary art, and the preparation of intoxicating beverages. 9. Occupation-agriculture, the rearing of domestic animals, hunting, fishing, industrial pursuits, mechanic arts, commerce, and all matters that may belong this category, such as boats and navigation, mode of travelling, roads, canals, bridges, and other public works of economical character. 10. Language; if a published grammar exists, a brief sketch of the grammatical organism and the construction of the language is furnished. II. Literature and libraries. 12. Intellectual knowledge, the system numeration, the division of time, science and medicine. 13. Fine Arts; painting, sculpture, and architecture. 14. Education (scholastic) and schools. 15. Music, both vocal and instrumental. 16. Etiquette and rules of politeness 17. Amusements, public and private, including dancing and games. 18. Woman: her social condition and her position in society. 19. Marriage, courtship, polygamy, divorce, and repudiation. 20. Childbirth; the treatment and the domestic education of children. 21. Mode of disposing of the dead, funeral ceremonies, mourning, and the belief in a future state of existence. 22. Classes, castes and slavery. 23. Government, law, administration of justice, revenues, army and navy, manner of warfare, and a description of arms. 24. Religion, mode of worship, priests, temples, religious orders and festivals. 25. Popular superstitions. 26. Myths. 27. A sketch of the capital of civilized countries with a concise description of its most remarkable monuments, and the social life of its inhabitants. From this enumeration it must be apparent that the categories 2, 3, 11, 12 in part, and 13, 14, and 27 are only applicable to civilized and enlightened nations, and that some of the other categories, such as language, class distinction, mythical traditions, and others, are entirely wanting, or are only superficially treated. This is the general plan which has been uniformly carried through in all parts of the work as far as it has been completed, and it thus affords to the philosopher, the ethnologist, the anthropologist, and even to the geographer the greatest facility for a comparative appreciation of the various subjects treated in each section. The authorities that furnished the facts are given at the end of each section, so that the authenticity of the statements can easily be verified by consulting the original authors. The style is uniform, easy and concise without diffusiveness or prolixity, and the language is both pure and chaste. The authorities have been examined with critical discernment; no long wearisome quotations are made, no doubtful facts or incredible statements are admitted in the text unless controverted in a foot-note; no laboured arguments are produced in support of contested questions, and if personal opinions are expressed they are confined to a few incisive sentences, but the word "I" as referring to the author never occurs in any of the volumes. Botocudos. Mosquitos. Commanches. Seminoles. Shawanese. Powhattans. Nisquallis. Knisteneaux. Kutchins. Thlinkeets. Namollos. Innuits (Western Esquimaux). Karalits (Greenland Es THE FIFTH DIVISION, embracing the ARAMÆAN STOCK, is in the Press, and will appear shortly; to be followed by the First Division, the Nigritian Stock, and the Fourth Division, the Turanian Stock. 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COPYRIGHT Og finds not infrequently on the title-pages of Chinese newly published books a caution against their unauthorized publication, in some instances threatening the forfeiture or destruction of all blocks that may be cut for their printing, showing at once that literary property is liable to be stolen, and that redress is afforded to authors thus wronged. The Penal Code, however, will be searched in vain for an enactment on the subject of copyright. Chinese law has never ecceived it necessary to specify that particular form of robbery which consists in despoiling a scholar of the fruit of his toil, any more than to name the products of husbandmen and artisans as under the protection of law, all alike being regarded as property by natural right. Hence, those who fringe the rights of an author are liable to a punishment of one hundred blows and to three years' deportation, if they print and sell his works without authority, but if the trespass bas gone no further than printing, no copies having been d. the punishment inflicted is only fifty blows, and forfeiture of the books and blocks. The offending publisher is arraigned and punished under that section of the Code which take cognizance of larcenies of a grave character, and awards those penalties, for seizing goods feloniously. A thief who does not part with the article stolen receives the lighter of the punishments, while the one who disposes of it is amenable to the heavier penalty, and the construction placed on that law affords all needful protection to author, artist or By Dr. Macgowan, read at a meeting of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. inventor. This right of exclusive publication by an author of his works is held in perpetuity by his heirs and assigns. In like manner, that section of the Code serves the purpose of a patent law: an upright magistrate would protect an inventor or discoverer, as surely as he would a man of lettersthe rights of both are identical in principle, both are inherent and inalienable, and those of artists not less so. In illustration of this, I submit cursory notices of certain authors and their works-Li Liung is the most prominent. He flourished in the middle of the seventeenth century, and was distinguished as a philosopher, poet, and artist. In early life he was an aspirant for political distinction, but the subversion of the Ming dynasty caused him to eschew politics, and having spent three years in a mountain solitude, where he became an enthusiastic admirer of nature, he emerged thence so invigorated in body and mind, that he resolved to devote himself always and wholly to intellectual and sensual enjoyment. He became an epicurean, if not in the highest sense of that term, yet in a sense far from its perverted meaning. In his heart he believed there was no God, nor future existence, and he held that the highest wisdom consisted in making light of the trials of life, and in the pursuit of pleasure. The centenarian, he says, has allotted only some thirty-six thousand five hundred days, and of these he spends a large portion in sleep. Economize the balance, remembering that every day that is not spent in gratifying 2 李笠翁一家言‧ |