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THE Sanscrit work entitled " Dasakumara-charitam, or the Adventures of Ten Princes," though printed more than twenty-five years ago, has not, as far as I can ascertain, been translated into any European language. Many parts of it are written in such a turgid "Oriental" style, that a close translation would be quite unsuitable to the English reader. Such passages have therefore been much condensed ; others, which are hardly decent or, as in the speech of the parasite in the last story, tedious and uninteresting, have been omitted ; but in general the original