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 HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 31 on it; a description of Paul's devotedness and other virtues— summary of the Christian doctrine established by Paul, taken from his Epistles. Exhortation to imitate Paul's example, Mr. Muir of the B. C. S. has been well known for his skill in Sanskrit composition, which has been well employed in this bio- graphy. This has been translated also into English and Hindi. 141. PUNJAB, HISTORY OF THE, Punjab Itihas, by Bajnarayain Bhattacharjea, 1st ed,, 1^7, lip. P., 2nd ed., 1854, pp. 194, 8vo. I Re. 8 as. Roz. & Co. Gives in good Bengali much information respecting the Punjab, Kashmir, Kabul, Kandahar, — the Sikh kingdom, the recent battles in the Punjab, derived from the ttajtarangini, Ain Akhbari, Seyar Mutakherim, Prinsep's Life ot Run lit Singh, Lawrence's adventures in the Punjab, Macgregor's Sikhs. Na- tives subscribed for 325 copies, as the fate of the Sikh king- dom was deeply interesting to them. 142. (P. T.) PERSIAN KINGS,HISTORY OF, Shah Nama, Sindhu. p., 1847, pp. 458, Tr. by Bisheshwar Dut who gives us in the title page a portrait of himself, with his paita and pirthi. This is the Homer of the Per- sians, gives the history of their native kingdom previous to the Moslem conquest, compiled from old documents ; as in Roman History there is a great blending of fact and romance. 143. Pratapaditya Ckaritra, Last King of SAGAR IS- LAND, Life, by Harish Tarkalanker, pp. 63, Roz. & Co., 2 as. 1853. Published by the Vernacular Literature Committee. Raja Pratapaditya lived in the reign of Akbar in the Jes- sore District, and founded a splendid city in a place which is now part of the Sunderbunds. His Biography, one of the few historical ones we have in Bengali, was compiled 50 years ago as a text book for the College of Fort William, — a mosaic of Persian Bengali ; the present memoir retains the subject of the former, but in a totally different style. The work has been sought after inGermany as throwing some light on the condition of a Hindu Raja under the Musalmans. It mentions that the Raja's immediate ancestors lived at Sdtgau, then a great emporium of trade, now an obscure village. They went to Gaur, obtained influence there with the king; Raja Pratapaditya received a grant of land in what is now the Sunderbunds, then a fertile populous district, but refusing subsequently to pay tribute, the Emperor Akbar sent an army against him ; he was taken prisoner and carried in an iro eage to Benares, where he diecL