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 TR UBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Post 8vo, pp. xvL— 280, cloth, price 6s. EASTERN PROVERBS AND EMBLEMS Illustrating Old Truths. By Rev. J. LONG, Member of the Bengal Asiatic Society, F.R.G.S. " We regard the book as valuable, and wish for it a wide circulation and attentive reading. "—Record. •' Altogether, it is quite a feast of good things." — Globe. Post 8vo, pp. viii. — 270, cloth, price 78. 6d. INDIAN POETRY; Containing a New Edition of the '* Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanscrit of the "Gita Govinda" of Jayadeva ; Two Books from "The Iliad of India" (Mahabharata), " Proverbial Wisdom " from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. By EDWIN ARNOLD, C.S.L, Author of "The Light of Asia." " In this new volume of Messrs. Trilbner's Oriental Series, Mr. Edwin Arnold does good service by illustrating, tlirough the medium of his musical English melodies, the power of Indian poetry to stir European emotions. Tlie * Indian Song of Songs ' is not unknown to scholars. Mr. Arnold will have introduced it among popular English poems. Nothing could be more graceful and delicate than the shades by which Krishna is portrayed in the gradual process of being weaned by the love of ' Beautiful Radha, jasmine-bosomed Radha," from the allurements of the forest nymphs, in whom the five senses are typified. " — Times. " No other English poet has ever thrown his genius and his art so thoroughly into the work of translating Eastern ideas as Mr. Arnold has done in his splendid para- phrases of language contained in these mighty epics."— Dai^y Teleffraph. " The poem abounds with imagery of Eastern luxuriousness and sensuousness ; the air seems laden with the spicy odours of the tropics, and the verse has a richness and a melody sufiScient to captivate the senses of the dullest." — Standard. " The translator, while producing a very enjoyable poem, has adhered with toler- able fidelity to the original text." — Overland Mail. classics,' that being, as his preface tells us, the goal towaixis which he bends his efforts." — Allen's Indian Mail. Post iwo, pp. xvi. — 296, cloth, price los. 6d. THE MIND OF MENCIUS ; Ok, POLITICAL ECONOMY FOUNDED UPON MORAL PHILOSOPHY. A Systematic Digest of the Doctrines op the Chinese Philosopher Mencius. Translated from the Original Text and Classified, with Comments and Explanations, By the Rev. ERNST FABER, Rhenish Mission Society. Translated from the German, with Additional Notes, By the Rev. A. B. HUTCHINSON, C.M.S., Church Mission, Hong Kong. " Mr. Faber is already well known in the field of Chinese studies by his digest of the doctrines of Confucius. The value of this work will be perceived when it is remembered that at no time since relations commenced between China and the West has the former been so powerful — we had almost said aggressive — as now. For those who will give it careful study, Mr. Faber's work is one of the most valuable of the excellent series to which it belongs." — Nature. A 2
 * ' It is full of interesting matter." — Antiquary.
 * ' We certainly wish Mr. Arnold success in his attempt ' to popularise Indian