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 of Sir Gore Ouseley, entitled Chihār Gulzār. This is a valuable little work, and particularly in the short tract on Prosody, which is appended to it.—5. I have also consulted the grammatical treatise prefixed to the Burhāni Kātia, a Persian Dictionary so called, as also a few of the Scholiasts, and the last edition of Meninski, of which the Student will find some mention made as he proceeds. To the remarks made on the former edition, particularly those by the Baron de Sacy, I have paid every attention, and have adopted them, or not, as their justness seemed to require. One of the readings, however, recommended by M. de Sacy as proper to be inserted in the Praxis, namely, in the phrase, to be translated, perfuming the sensorium of the Genii, I have not been able to admit; because, not