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272 in regard to the identity of the languages of Southern India with the dialects of the Himalaya and Bootan, being more inclined to support the views of Mr. Max Muller on the affiliation existing between the Dravidian, and what is now styled the Scythian group of languages.

We hope to give a review of this in our next Number.

A Dictionary, Sanscrit and English, extended and improved from the second edition of the Dictionary of Professor H. H. Wilson, together with a supplement, grammatical appendices and an index serving as an English-Sanscrit Dictionary, by Theodor Goldstücker, Berlin, 1856, large 4to.; part 1, (80 pages.)

This is the commencement of the publication of the long expected 3rd edition of Professor Wilson's dictionary.

The preparation of this new edition has been undertaken by Mr. Goldstücker alone. It contains considerable additions more particularly of those vêdu terms which Professor Wilson systematically excluded.

Mr. Goldstücker promises to insert in a supplement those words whose meaning he has not been able satisfactorily to explain as well as all new words he may meet with in the course of publication. The work will appear in parts, each part to contain 80 pages—price 87 fr. 50 centimes.

We are glad to have to announce the publication of a work in connection with our own Presidency, viz. a new edition of 's Book on the Neilgherries. It is thus noticed by the Hurkaru.

"Mr. W. H. Smoult has got up with great trouble and expense an edition of an account by R. Baikie, Esq.,, of the Neilgherries, their topography, climate, soil and productions , and of the effects of the climate on the European constitution. The subject matter of the work is of great interest to very many persons in this community, but the point which we are most disposed to dwell upon is the admirable style in which Mr. Smoult has contrived to get the work illustrated by an artist of the name of Fraser, a stranger we believe amongst us and who is about to try his fortune in another land, unless perhaps the local Government has the good sense to secure