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 Miscellaneous. 81 344. (S. T.) COOKING, Pahrajeslwlwr, according to the Shastras, bh. p., 2d ed., 1854, pp. 93, 8 as., by Gauii Shankar Tarkabagish. Published under the patronage of the Rajah of Burdwan, treats of the cooking of rice, vegetables, fish, eggs, and pease, giving compositions that would rival French cookery, to it is appended a poem on cooking. Those receipts were made 1,800 years ago. 345. (S. B.) DREAMS, Swapnadhyea, pp. 16, 3 pice, 1st ed., 1820. On Dreams and their interpretations. 346. FABLES for Students, Balak Bodhak Itihas, By Eesab C. Earmakar. Ch. C. Scr., 1850, pp. 36, 2 as. 347. GANGES CANAL, account of, with a Map, . 1855, pp. 44, 2 as. Roz. & Co., by the Vernacular Literature Committee. 348. GANGES, ITS DESCENT and COURSE, Oanga Bhakti, pp. 181. 4 as., Ser. Jy. A., 1854, by Durga Prasad Mukerjyea. Many editions of this have been published — no- tices the course of the Ganges, the mythological account of it, and the place such as Nuddea and others along its banks. 349. GURUS EXPOSED, Gurutatva, by Gobinda Ghiri, 1852, pp. 68, 3 as. Points out the Mantras, or charms used among the Hindus on building a house, for snake bites, cholera, and the means of Gurus realising large sums of money. The author was a Sanyiasi and well acquainted with the tricks of Gurus. In 1836, appeared the Oyanandra Prdmadini, by Bana Mali Sen. 360. HARLOT'S PROGRESS, Naba Bibi Bilas, See 8. p., 1852, pp. 82, 1 J as. Points out the career of a frail .woman as a servant, a devotee, a pimp, a beggar, at first a blossom, 'then perverted by a barber's wife, becomes a nach a key to the history of seduction. Many editions of it. 351. HINDU SOCIETY AND RELIGION, THEIR CONDITION, PROSPECTS, Dharma, Marma Prakashikd, pp 46. 362. IDOLATRY refuted from the Shastras, Tathea Prakash> 1842, pp.60. Braja Mohan, a friend of Rammohun Ray, refutes Idolatry from the Hindu Shastras, with all the pungency of Lucian, an edition of this work with notes was published in 1842, by the Rev. W. Morton. Vasanti Puja. This book gives