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 TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Second Edition, post 8vo, pp. xxvi. — 244, cloth, price los. 6d. THE GULISTAN; Ok, KOSE garden OF SHEKH MUSHLIU'D-DIN SADI OF SHIRAZ. Translated for the First Time into Prose and Verse, with an Introductory Preface, and a Life of the Author, from the Atish Kadah, By EDWARD B. EASTWICK, C.B., M.A., F.R.S., M.R.A.S. " It is a very fair rendering of the original." — Times. "The new edition has long been desired, and will be welcomed by all who take any interest in Oriental poetry. The Gulistan is a typical Persian verse-book of the highest order. Mr. Eastwick's rhymed translation . . . has long established itself in a secure position as the best version of Sadi's finest -work.."— Academy. '* It is both faithfully and gracefully executed."— TaiZef. In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. viii. — 408 and viii. — 348, cloth, price 28s. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS RELATING TO INDLA.N SUBJECTS. By BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON, Esq., F.R.S., Late of the Bengal Civil Service ; Corresponding Member of the Institute ; Chevalier of the Legion of Honour ; late British Minister at the Court of Nepal, &c., &c. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. Section I.— On the Kocch, B6d6, and Dhimal Tribes.— Part I. Vocabulary.— Part II. Grammar.— Part III. Their Origin, Location, Numbers, Creed, Customs, Character, and Condition, with a General Description of the Climate they dwell in. — Appendix. Section II.— On Himalayan Ethnology.— I. Comparative Vocabulary of the Lan- guages of the Broken Tribes of N^pal.- II. Vocabulary of the Dialects of the Kiranti Language. — III. Grammatical Analysis of the Vayu Language. The Vayu Grammar. —IV. Analysis of the Bahing Dialect of the Kiranti I-auguage. The B^hing Gram- mar.— V. On the Vayu or Hayu Tribe of the Central Himalaya.— VI. On the Kiranti Tribe of the Central Himalaya. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. Section III.— On the Aborigines of North-Eastern India. Comparative Vocabulary of the Tibetan, Bodo, and Garo Tongues. Section IV. — Aborigines of the North-Eastern Frontier. Section V. — Aborigines of the Eastern Frontier. Section VI. — The Indo-Chinese Borderers, and their connection with the Hima- layans and Tibetans. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Arakan. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Tenasserim. Section VII.— The Mongolian AflBnities of the Caucasians. — Comparison and Ana- lysis of Caucasian and Mongolian Words. Section VIIL— Physical Type of Tibetans. Section IX.— The Aborigines of Central India.— Comparative Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Languages of Central India. — Aboiigiues of the Eastern Ghats.— Vocabu- lary of some of the Dialects of the Hill and Wandering Tribes in the Northern Sircars. — Aborigines of the Nilgiris, with Remarks on their Affinities. — Supplement to the Nilgirian Vocabularies. — The Aborigines of Southern India and Ceylon. Section X. — Route of Nepalese Mission to Pekin, with Remarks on the Water- Shed and Plateau of Tibet. Section XL— Route from Kathmandu, the Capital of Nep41, to Darjeeling in Sikim. — Memorandum relative to the Seven Cosis of Nepal. Section XII.— Some Accounts of the Systems of Law and Police as recognised in the State of Nep4l. Section XIII. — The Native Method of making the Paper denominated Hindustan, Nepalese. Section XIV. — Pre-eminence of the Vernaculars ; or, the Anglicists Answered ; Being Letters on the Education of the People of India. " For the study of the less-known races of India Mr. Brian Hodgson's 'Miscellane- ous Essays ' will be found very valuable both to the philologist and the ethnologist. ' — Times,