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 ETHICS, AND ttOftlL TALES— GEOGRAPSt. 17 moral beauty in the lowly life of a Christian Shepherd, a tale well adapted for the rural population of this country, teaching them many lessons on cleanliness and the simple manners of English rustics. To be had at the Christian Knowledge So- ciety's Depot. 75. SOLOMON'S PROVERBS, Suliman Hitopodesh, 1849, pp. 54. J. S>, 1 anna, tr. by Yates. The School Book Society has adopted the Sanskrit translation of Solomon's Proverbs as a class book; the Bengali is equally worthy of being considered such. The style is elegant and simple. 76. (P. TO Tota Itikds, or MORAL TALES, ed. 1801, last ed. 1853. Tales said to have been told by a parrot, to occu- py a lady's time, treats of a variety of stories, as of a soldier's wife, the tiger and Brahman, cat and mice, frog and snake, of four friends, of the jackal made king, of the serpent pre* served, of the elephant, ass and deer, the compassionate tiger, of the low man made king. 18 of these are given in Yates* Selections. 77. WIDOW RE-MARRIAGE, in favour of, by Ishwar Chandra Videasagar. Vidhavd Bibdha Prachcdtta, S. P., 1855, pp. 22. The learned Principal of the Sanskrit College brings his learning here to shew that the prohibition of widow - marriage is not supported by the Shastras. Three pamphlets have been recently published in reply to this which is cir- culated gratis. 78. (E. T.) Young Cottager, Chhota Jen, Leigh Rich- mond's, T. S., pp. 71. An interesting narrative of a Christian girl in a retired English village, "the plain and simple annals of the poor." OfiOOEAPBT. The first attempts at communicating Geography in Ben- gali were made by the Serampore Copy Books, and the Serampore Geography and Astronomy in 1819, which were a compendium of Geography taught by dictation— -In 1824 Pearson published Bhugol ehung Jycantish, A. B., pp. 311, DIALOGUES ON GEOGRAPHY AND ASTRONOMY,which gave a general description of the Earth, the Zillahs of Bengal, General History of Hindustan, description of other countries in A«i°- C