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 TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Post 8vo, pp. xii. — 228, cloth, price 7s. 6d. THE CLASSICAL POETRY OF THE JAPANESE. By basil hall CHAMBERLAIN, Author of " Yeigo Henkaku Shiran." •' A very curious volume. The author has manifestly devoted much labour to the task of studying the poetical literature of the Japanese, and rendering characteristic specimens into English verse." — Daily News. " Mr. Chamberlain's volume is, so far as we are aware, the first attempt which has been made to interpret the literature of the Japanese to the Western world. It is to the classical poetry of Old Japan that we must turn for indigenous Japanese thought, and in the volume before us we have a selection from that poetry rendered into graceful English verse." — Tablet. "It is undoubtedly one of the best translations of lyric literature which has appeared during the close of the last year." — Celestial Empire. "Mr. Chamberlain set himself a difficult task when he undertook to reproduce Japanese poetry in an English form. But he has evidently laboured con amove, and his efforts are successful to a degree." — London and China Express. Post Bvo, pp. xii. — 164, cloth, price los. 6d. THE HISTORY OP ESARHADDON (Son of Sennacherib), KING OF ASSYRIA, B.C. 681-668. Translated from the Cuneiform Inscriptions upon Cylinders and Tablets in the British Museum Collection ; together with a Grammatical Analysis of each Word, Explanations of the Ideographs by Extracts from the Bi-Lingual Syllabaries, and List of Eponyms, &c. Br ERNEST A. BUDGE, B.A., M.R.A.S., Assyrian Exhibitioner, Christ's College, Cambridge. " Students of scriptural archaeology will also appreciate the ' History of Esar- haddon.' " — Times. " There is much to attract the scholar in this volume. It does not pretend to popularise studies which are yet in their infancy. Its primary object is to translate, but it does not assume to be more than tentative, and it offers both to the professed Assyriologist and to the ordinary non-Assyriological Semitic scholar the means of controlling its results." — Academy. "Mr. Budge's book is, of course, mainly addressed to Assyrian scholars and students. They are not, it is to be feared, a very numerous class. But the more thanks are due to him on that account for the way in which he has acquitted himself in his laborious task."— Taiief. Post 8vo, pp. 448, cloth, price 21s. THE MESNEVI (Usually known as The Mesneviyi Shekif, or Holy Mesnevi) OF MEVLANA (OUR LORD) JELALU 'D-DIN MUHAMMED ER-RUMI. Book the First. Together with some Account of the Life and Acts of the Author, of his Ancestors, and of his Descendants. Illustrated by a Selection of Characteristic Anecdotes, as Collected by their Historian, Mevlana Shemsu-'D-Din Ahmed, el Eflaki, el 'Aripi. Translated, and the Poetry Versified, in English, By JAMES W. REDHOUSE, M.R.A.S., &c. "This book will be a very valuable help to the reader ignorant of Persia, who is desiro'is'of obtaining an insight into a very important department of the literature extant in that language."— ra6ie^
 * ' A complete treasury of occult Oriental love."— Saturday Revieic.