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Post 8vo; pp. 432; cloth; price i6s. A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; AND LITERATURE. BY JOHN DOWSON; M.R.A.S.; Late Professor of Hindustani; Staff College. This not only forms an indispensable book of reference to students of Indian literature; but is also of great general interest; as it gives in a concise :ind easily accessible form all that need be known about the personages of Hindu mythology whose names are so familiar; but of whom so little is known outside the limited circle of savants. Time. It is no slight gain when such subjects are treated fairly and fully in a moderate space ;and we need only add that the few wants which we may hope to see supplied in new editions detract but little from the general excellence of Mr. Uowson swork. Satwday Review; Post 8vo; with View of Mecca; pp. cxii. 172; cloth; price 93. SELECTIONS FROM THE KORAN. ]J vEDWARD WILLIAM LANE; Translator ofT heT housand andO ne Nights ;c.; c. AN ewE dition; Revised andE nlarged; with an Introduction by STANLEY LANE POOLE. ... Has been I on? esteemed in this country as the compilation of one of the greatest A rabic scholars of the time; the late Mr. Lane; the well-known translator of the Arabian Nights. .. .T he present editor has enhanced the value of his relatives work by divesting the text of a great deal of extraneous matter introduced by way of comment; and prefixing an introduction. Times. Mr. Poole is both a generous and a learned biographer. .. .M r. Poole tells us the facts ... so far as it is possible for industry and criticism to ascertain them; and for literary skill to present them in a condensed and readable form. English man; Calcutta. Post 8vo; pp. vi. 368; cloth; price 148. MODERN INDIA AND THE INDIANS; BEING A SERIES OF IMPRESSIONS; NOTES; AND ESSAYS. PY MONIER WILLIAMS; D.C.L.; Hou. LL.D. of the University of Calcutta; H(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)