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 TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Post 8vo, pp. xvi.— 224, cloth, price 9s. UDANAVARGA. A Collection of Verses from the Buddhist Canon. Compiled by DHAEMATKATA. Being the NORTHERN BUDDHIST VERSION of DHAMMAPADA. Translated from the Tibetan of Bkah-hgyur, with Notes, and Extracts from the Commentary of Pradjnavarman, By W. WOODVILLE ROCKHILL. " Mr. Rockhill's present work is the first from which assistance will be gained for a more accurate understanding of the Pali text; it is, in fact, as yet the only term of comparison available to us. The ' Udanavarga,' the Thibetan version, was originally discovered by tiie late M. Schiefner, who published the Tibetan text, and had intended adding a translation, an intention frustrated by his death, but which has been carried out by Mr. Rockhill. . . . Mr. Rockhill may be congratulated for having well accomplished a difficult ta.s!k.."— Saturday Review. In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. xxiv. — 566, cloth, accompanied by a Language Map, price 25s. A SKETCH OF THE MODERN LANGUAGES OF AFRICA. By ROBERT NEEDHAM CUST, Barrister-at-Law, and late of Her Majesty's Indian Civil Service. " Any one at all interested in African languages cannot do better than get Mr. Gust's book. It is encyclopaedic in its scope, and the reader gets a start clear away in any particular language, and is left free to add to the initial sum of knowledge there collected." — Natal Mercury. "Mr. Gust has contrived to produce a work of value to linguistic students."- Nature. Third Edition. Post 8vo, pp. XV.-250, cloth, price 7s. 6d. OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION TO THE SPREAD OF THE UNIVERSAL RELIGIONS. By C. p. TIELE, Doctor of Theology, Professor of the History of Religions in the University of Leyden. Translated from the Dutch by J. Estlin Carpenter, M.A. ^ " Few books of its size contain the result of so much wide thinking, able and labo- rious study, or enable the reader to gain a better bird's-eye view of the latest results of investigations into the religious history of nations. As Professor Tiele modestly says, ' In this little book are outlines— pencil sketches, I might say— nothing more.' But there are some men whose sketches from a thumb-nail are of far more worth than an enormous canvas covered with the crude painting of others, and it is easy to see that these pages, full of information, these sentences, cut and perhaps also dry, short and clear, condense the fruits of long and thorough research." — Scotsman.