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VOL. II. Super-royal 4to. half-morocco, gilt top, pp. x. and 242, with 74 Photographic and Lithographic Plates. Price £3 35.

Report on the Antiquities of Kathiawar and Kachh.

Being the Result of the Second Season's Operations of the Archæological Survey of Western India, 1874-75. By JAS. BURGESS, F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., Etc.

Archæological Surveyor and Reporter to Government, Western India.

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VOL. III. Super-royal 4to. half-morocco, gilt top, pp. viii. and 138, with 66 Lithographic and Photographic Plates, and 9 Woodcuts. Price £2 25.

REPORT ON THE

Antiquities in the Bidar and Aurangabad Districts

OF THE TERRITORIES OF HIS HIGHNESS THE NIZAM OF HAIDARABAD. Being the Result of the Third Season's Operations of the Archæological Survey of Western India, 1875-76. By JAS. BURGESS, F.R.G. S., M.R.A.S., Etc.

Archæological Surveyor and Reporter to Government, Western India.

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Imperial 8vo. half-morocco, gilt top, pp. xx. and 536, with Map, 75 Woodcuts, and 98 Plates. Price £2 25.

The Cave Temples of India.

By JAMES FERGUSSON, D. C.L., F. R. S., V. P. R. A. S., and

JAS. BURGESS, LL.D., F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., etc.,
Archæological Surveyor and Reporter to Government, Western India.

This work contains the most complete account hitherto published of all the known examples of Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jaina rock-cut Architecture in Northern and Eastern as well as Western India.

(Only a very few copies left.)

Super-royal 4to. half-morocco, gilt top, pp. xvi. and 274, with 100 Plates and 31 Woodcuts. Price £5 5s.

Tree and Serpent Worship;

OR, ILLUSTRATIONS OF MYTHOLOGY AND ART IN INDIA IN THE FIRST AND FOURTH CENTURIES AFTER CHRIST.

From the Sculptures of the Buddhist Topes at Sanchi and Amravati.

Prepared under the Authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council.

By JAMES FERGUSSON, D.C.L., F.R.S., V.P.R.A.S., etc.
Second Edition, revised, and in great part rewritten.

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Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. vi. and 123. Price 55.

SLAVIC AND LATIN.

ILCHESTER LECTURES ON COMPARATIVE LEXICOGRAPHY

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NEW VOLUME OF TRÜBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES.
Post 8vo. cloth, pp. 240. Price 95.

UDANA VARGA.

A COLLECTION OF VERSES FROM THE BUDDHIST CANON,
Compiled by DHARMATRÂTA.

BEING THE NORTHERN BUDDHIST VERSION OF DHAMMAPADA.

Translated from the Tibetan of Bkah-hgyur, with Notes, and Extracts from the Commentary of Pradjnavarman,

By W. WOODVILLE ROCKHILL.

The Udânavarga contains 300 verses, which are nearly identical with verses of the Dhammapada; 150 more resemble of verses of that work; 20 are to be found in the Sutta Nipâta, and about the same number are very similar to parts the same book.

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These Lectures were originally delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy during the years 1876 to 1882. The author now submits them to the general public, and if any excuse for his presumption is needed, it must be looked for in the numerous and attentive student audiences he always has had, and who, by their evident appreciation of his teaching, have fostered the idea that a selection from the Lectures might prove interesting to others outside the Academic walls,

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GUIDE ΤΟ

MODERN

By E. M. GELDART, M.A.,

GREEK.

Member of the Hellenic Society; formerly Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford; and Author of "The Modern Greek Language in its relation to Ancient Greek," etc., etc.

Based on inductive principles, and consisting of an entertaining story, grammatically analysed and philologically explained, accompanied by Exercises, and followed by Familiar Dialogues, a Simplified Grammar, and a Classified Vocabulary.

Part I. consists of Alphabet Pronunciation and Fourteen Lessons; Part II. Dialogues; Part III. A Classified Vocabulary; Part IV. Accidence and Syntax.

DR. HUNTER'S HISTORY OF INDIA FOR SCHOOLS.
Second Edition, Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. 221, with Map. Price 3s. 6d.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE.
By W. W. HUNTER, LL.D.,

Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India; Author of "The Imperial Gazetteer of India," "The Indian Empire," "The Indian Mussalmans," etc.

"It is a storehouse of facts, marshalled in masterly style, and presented, as history should be, without the slightest suspicion of prejudice or suggestion of partisanship. The usefulness of the book is increased by the addition of an index, alike explicit and exhaustive."-The Edinburgh Daily Review.

"Although designed as a popular handbook, the little volume is a work of authority, and of original value."-The Daily

News.

"The book is excellently adapted either as an introduction to more extended studies on the subject, or to give a respectable measure of general knowledge to people who have not the time or opportunity to acquire more."-The Scotsman.

"We part from Dr. Hunter with much respect for the care and trouble he has taken in writing this small manual. We consider it to be far the best manual of Indian History that has hitherto been published, and quite equal to any of the Historical Series for Schools, edited by Dr. Freeman. We trust that it will soon be read in all the schools in this Presidency."-The Times of India.

In Four Parts, crown 8vo. pp. 1018. Price £2 155.

A CHINESE DICTIONARY IN THE CANTONESE DIALECT. By ERNEST JOHN EITEL.

This Standard Work on the Chinese Language, constructed on the basis of Kanghi's Imperial Dictionary, contains all Chinese characters in practical use, and while alphabetically arranged according to the sounds of the oldest dialect of China, the Cantonese, it gives also the Mandarin pronunciation of all characters explained in the book, so that its usefulness is by no means confined to the Cantonese Dialect, but the work is a practically complete Thesaurus of the whole Written Language of China, ancient and modern, as used all over the Empire, whilst its introductory chapters serve the purposes of a philological guide to the student.

A Supplement, arranged for being bound and used by itself, and containing a List of the Radicals, an Index, and a List of Surnames, will be published, and sold separately.

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Second Edition.

Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. xiv. and 319, with green borders, price 7s. 6d.
PEARLS OF THE FAITH;

OR, ISLAM'S ROSARY.

BEING THE NINETY-NINE BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF ALLAH (ASMÂ-EL-'Husnâ).

With Comments in Verse from various Oriental Sources as made by an Indian Mussulman.
By EDWIN ARNOLD, M.A., C.S.I.,

Author of "The Light of Asia," etc. etc.

"Mr. Edwin Arnold has completed his Oriental Trilogy by adding to his Sanskrit idyl, the 'Indian Song of Songs,' and his Buddhist epic, the Light of Asia,' a rosary of pearls from the creed of Indian Mahomedans. Everywhere the volume abounds in thoughts and fancies gracefully expressed. a delightful collection of Oriental stories in verse.' -The Times.

Mr. Edwin Arnold has succeeded in producing

"Mr. Edwin Arnold is decidedly the poet of the Eastern world, in quite another sense than that of Byron and Moor. His 'Light of Asia' has been accepted in America, and even in India itself, as almost an inspired revelation of the mystery of Buddhism. In his 'Song of Songs' he showed himself a sort of Indian Psalmist. In the present poem he sets to music words the rosary of an Indian Mussulman, and really displays an astonishing wealth and variety of mystical and devotional imagery and allegory, not without a keen perception of the finer and larger human feeling and instinct which has given to t faith of the Moslem its fascination, and is, perhaps, the secret of its power.' The Daily News.

"Following upon the Indian Song of Songs' and the 'Light of Asia,' this book completes the trilogy designed by M2 Edwin Arnold, with a view to spread among English-speaking people, through the fascinating medium of musical verse, a better knowledge of the religions which mainly share with Christianity the faith of the human race, and to excite towards them a more generous, because more enlightened, feeling. In these pages, we behold as in a mirror the ineffable image of the Muhar

medan Allah. Having written the first and second with so large-hearted and generous an appreciation of whatever is good in humanity and human belief, Mr. Arnold could write the third in no other way than as we have it, . . showing that a religion often accredited with engendering fierceness and intolerance, is, in its essence, as tender as a woman and as gentle as a chid, while animated by ideas that reach upward to the summit of moral and spiritual grandeur."-The Daily Telegraph.

"I am reading Mr. Edwin Arnold's book with intense delight, for the sake of its majesty and eloquence, its wealth and beauty of imagery, and its sweet and harmonious numbers."-The Illustrated London News (G. A. SALA).

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BEING THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF GAUTAMA, PRINCE OF INDIA AND FOUNDER of Buddhism.

TOLD IN VERSE BY AN INDIAN Buddhist.

By EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.I., Author of "Indian Poetry," etc.

"Mr. Edwin Arnold's poem, the Light of Asia,' is the most sympathetic account ever published in Europe of the life and teaching of the Sakya Saint, Prince Gautama Siddartha, the Lord Budda.”—The Times.

Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. 230. Price 10s. 6d.

THE VAZIR OF

LANKURAN.

A PERSIAN PLAY.

A Text-Book of Modern Colloquial Persian, for the use of European Travellers,
Residents in Persia, and Students in India.

Edited, with a Grammatical Introduction, a Translation, copious Notes, and a Vocabulary
giving the Pronunciation of all the Words,

By W. H. HAGGARD,

Late Second Secretary to H. M. Legation in Tehrán; and

GUY LE STRANGE.

"This little volume, intended as a text-book of modern colloquial Persian, for the use of European travellers, residents in Persia, and students in India, may be said pleasantly to fulfil its profession. The idea is, upon the whole, happy to find in a simple dramatic sketch a theme for students of colloquial Persian. No comedy of Goldoni is expressed in plainer or more every-day language than the selected play of Mirza Jaafer. Mr. Haggard has set an excellent example to young diplomatists who have to pass some two or three years of early service in a country presenting few general attractions. That he was provided with a collaborateur of tried ability must be considered a stroke of especially good fortune."-The Athenas "It is not, however, as a play that MM. Haggard and Le Strange have offered their text and translation to Englis readers, but rather as a guide to colloquial Persian. There is a notable lack of such books at present. Students learn Persia from classical works which abound in phrases that are positively unintelligible to the sort of people a traveller has to deal with. What was wanted was a bright interesting tale or play written in the common vernacular, with all necessary adjuncts in the way of notes and translations. This Messrs. Haggard and Le Strange have for the first time supplied. They give a carefully printed text, abounding in the idioms most useful in ordinary conversation; a free but accurate translation, an admirable vocabulary, and notes on the difficulties which occur in the text. The grammatical introduction is particularly deserving of notice. Many of the remarks are not to be found in the usual grammars, and are the result of personal experience among the people of Teheran. The book is a real and valuable gain to Anglo-Oriental literature. No traveller in Persia should neglect to master it on his journey out; and the student who knows the classical language will do well to supplement it by some acquaintance with the ordinary vernacular as it is spoken by the actors in the Vazir of Lankuran."-The Saturday Review.

LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 57 AND 59, LUDGATE HILL.

TRÜBNER'S COLLECTION OF SIMPLIFIED GRAMMARS OF THE PRINCIPAL ASIATIC AND EUROPEAN LANGUAGES.

Originally Edited by the late E. H. PALMER, M.A.,

And since his death, by Dr. R. ROST, Librarian of the Indian Office Library.

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Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and Examiner in Hindustani to H. M. Civil Service Commission.

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Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. xii. and 52. Price 35. 6d.

OUTLINES OF BASQUE

OF BASQUE GRAMMAR.

By W. J. VAN EYS.

Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. iv.-66. With a Plate. Price 5s.

A CONCISE GRAMMAR OF THE MALAGASY LANGUAGE. By G. W. PARKER.

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Mr. TRÜBNER is making arrangements with competent Scholars for the early preparation of Grammars of SIAMESE, BURMESE, JAPANESE, CHINESE, and ICELANDIC, particulars of which will be shortly announced.

"In the 'Simplified Grammar of Hindustani, Persian, and Arabic,' by E. H. Palmer, M.A., we have the earliest of a series of improved and abbreviated Grammars, at once most interesting and useful, which is to be extended over the whole range of important languages. The object will be to provide a concise but practical introduction to each tongue for students, and at the same time to furnish comparative philologists with a clear and easy view of their structure. The accomplished author of the first specimen of the design, in boldly grouping the Semitic Arabic with Hindustani and Persian, sweeps away all the old verbiage of the grammarians, and reduces Accidence and Syntax to the simplest principles."-Daily Telegraph.

"A great boon to students and young beginners in the study of these languages, and for candidates for the Indian Civil Services, and military officers in their examinations in India, is well adapted to afford great help, as indeed to all those who contemplate studying Oriental languages."-United Service Gazette.

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