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 MENSURATION— MENTAL PHILOSOPHY. 37 Native Amins, with surveying compass and chain. This work is likely to be very useful to Amins, and has been published for their guidance by the Revenue Board. 166. (E.T.) Guide to the GOVERNMENT LAND MEASUREMENT, pp. 106, Roz. & Co., 1 Re., with Maps as specimens of field measurements and directions how Amins are to proceed. MENTAL PHILOSOPHY. It is singular with the Metaphysical taste of the Bengalis, that we should hitherto have only two works on Mental Philosophy by them, though in the Prabodh Chandraday, now translated from Sanskrit into Bengali, we have a magnificent specimen of a metaphysical drama in which the various passions, anger, pride, &c, form the persona; drama?. " The Probodh Chandraday/ 1 one of the most perfect physcologi- cal allegories in any language — representing the struggle in the human soul between king intellect and king passion, two brothers and sons of sense, the mother of the first being ab- straction and of the second action. Cupid and his wife, sexual enjoyment, are friends of king passion, his subjects are hypoc- risy, self-sufficiency, materialism, avarice, falsehood, &c. On the side of intellect are religion, tranquillity, retirement, under- standing, penance and mortification. The plot is somewhat involved, arising from the author's desire to canvass the doc- trines of different sects, whose representations are introduced into the drama. In the end intellect gains a complete victory. The object of the whole is to celebrate the triumph of Vedan- tism and Quietism over the Buddha and Jaina systems. Bombay Quarterly, II. v. 13. J. Muir, Esq. b. c. s. delivered in 1845, (a series of lectures in Sanskrit on Mental Philosophy to the Benares College Pandits, which were published) based on Abercrombie's work on the mental powers — treating of our sources of knowledge and of the faculties of memory, con- ception, abstraction, imagination, the employment of reason in the search after truth, the sources of error in reasoning ; a Bengali translation of this would be a desideratum. 167. (A. B.) MIND, WATTS ON THE, Chitotkarsha Vidh&n. 2 vols., pp. 600, 2 Rs. 1849-50, by K. Banerje£, Roz. & Co* Treats of rules for the improvement of knowledge E