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 22 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. 97. ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN BENGALI, lngrdji Byeakaran, pp. 82. It gives the English pronunciation in Bengali letters— here are specimens : Hoayi iyudu; bit - mi: m tabhs riding : at sa hi yeand shi. 58. KEITH'S BENGALI GRAMMAR, Kei Byeakaran, pp. 59, 2 as., 1st ed. 1820, last ed. 1854, 8. b. s In extensive use since 1820; written in a catechetical form upwards of 15,000 copies have been sold: it was composec by one who knew what Vernacular schools required. ,99. KHETTRA MOHAN'S GRAMMAR, 5th fid 1854, pp. 48. Roz. & Co., Prepared for the Hindu College Patshala ^ gives a good outline of Grammar. 100. NAN DA KUMAR'S GRAMMAR IN VERSE Byeakaran Darpan, 500 copies, Bengal Society, P. 1853. pp. 107- 8 as. Taken from the Mugdhobdh Chandomangari, the took is written after the model of English Grammars, it if used in several schools and "wedded to immortal verse," treats of the rules of orthography, 'declensions, conjugations. . versification, an account of the rat or sentiment of passion. . The author is a clerk in the Military Accountant's Office, and ' an ex-Student of the Huglv College,— when the Hindus have . Arithmetics and Dictionaries in verse they may well have Grammars also. 101. PURNACHANDR AD AY'S GRAMMAR, 1st ed., 1839, 2nd ecL, 1850, 1,000 copies, pp. 78, 4 as. A re- print of an old work— scarce ; contains a pretty full view of Grammar. 102. (E. T.) RAM MOHAN ROY'S BENGAL' GRAMMAR, pp. 116, 1st ed., 1833, last ed., 1851, S. B. 8. 3,000 copies sold. A translation into Bengali of what the Rajs first wrote in English in 1826, treats with considerable critica power of the various parts of Grammar ; " a work that indicates . much philological acuteness and philosophical research." 103 SANSKRIT GRAMMARIN BENGALI, Jffy- dabodhSar Chandraday, Pr. 1847, 12mo.pp. 226. A guide to the youngstudents of the Sanskrit and Vernacular languages. This contains the Sanskrit text with a useful Bengali Commentary, which will enable the pupil to be less dependent on the teacher and to master the grammar in one- third the time. M Whenever a system of vernacular education shall be established, it will be