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 120 THE ETOIAK ANTTQTj ARY. [Aj-hil, 1375. diffusura. colli goret in untim, et rodigoret *"« corpus, ia profecto uon disBcntiret ft nobis. Bed hoc nemo facerc, uiyi veri peritua ao scieuu, potest : varum untom non nisi ejus scire eat, qui sit ductus ft Deo.** But tho Christum Soriptnras, while necessarily exhibiting p theory ot morality, differing however in its coumletencs* and unity from that of any other system, present themaolve* not as a revcla- tion of morale, but or life end power, h ridging over tho gulf between tho saying and the acting out of noble sentiments, and claiming to be able to transform even tho bad. Li LjtKfjtim ct tA Lrrrfe4u.Tr«E iiirfi>orart*Kia* ts 1971. Bsrutt AaouellL'. i*i*r M. Garcuti duTaujPj Slcuibre dn I' In- ftitafc, KrofB"u«Mir A 1' Boole ipccudo d*» Wiituin orusiUalet titanic*. 4c. (Hnrw : M*iaoiui0nr« 4 Cto., 18711-) We welcome with much pleasure the West number of thia inUvmning annual review, which ^T. Cm rein do Tossy has compiled for a long scries of years with such regularity and assiduity n to deserve the thanks not only of hie own pupils, for whom il appears to he chiefly designed, but tven of people in India who wish to posses a a compact account of tho chief publications jssned, and of the literary movements which have occurred daring the past year, connected with the Hindu* stiini Irmgusge. It is well known that for several years a eon Lost has boon going on in the upper provinces of India, whore Urdu and Hindi ore most current, as to which of these two rival idtome deserves the preference. Tho illustrious professor continue* to defend Urdu against Hindi, and adduce* authori- ties to support bin opinion. There is no doubt that whatever port' Government has taken, or niay in future take, with reference to these two Ian* igtwjj^.iuinfltu'tio'-i : ii never extend fsrtlior than its own document?, and Lhut those who have hi* therto used Hindi in the Bovnnogari character, or Urdu in tho Persian, will continue to do ho iu spite, of any Government orders to the contrarj. Such things must bo decided by the people them- eelvos. Besides extracts from Indian newspapers con* corning the rivalry of the sister idioms, the it v low con tains others on the present state of literary composition, chiefly poetry, aud accounts of liter- ary societies such as the Aligarh Institute, and the Ajjjuumn of the Punjab, which held a rooalft g called Muiha'ara when pieces of origii poetry were read by iheir authors tinder the presidency of Mr. Holroyd, the Director of 1'uhlte Instruction, and under the patronage of tho Punjab Government Of the hooka published during the past year, the most notable arc the Turikh-i llinduitdn, or History of India, by Mnnahi Muhammad Zukft nllah Khan, at present. Professor in the Jluir College at Allahabad ; Fafdna-i Edmul, the ro- mantic adventure:! of Humwl, by Sayyid OhuHtu Hsjdar Khan, who is pointed out by the 2s" I press as one of the best authors of India; IKbb-i BftMm, "tho medicine of Itahim," containing 640 pages, and which has bwu adopted as a other works are of minor importance* or mere translations from the rlnglish, and a few are controversial works of small bulk published as usual both on the Muhauunadtui uud on tho Christian Ride. It appears that the fines lately inflicted on some booksellers of IAhor for dealing in obscene book* have io frightened the rest, that Pandit Krishna L&L, a member of the Literary Society uf the Punjab, who was desirous to buy some books he required, says he could not in ail the aheps ho visitc I Mtytihing but ujmoiincka, or works referring to laws and regulations. "India together with Burma!} possessed in 1873 not less than 478 journals ; namely, llbb in the iNative languages, 151 in English, and ft? bilingual ones, i.e. English and vernacular. In Bombay there wore more than In tho Bengal Presidency, as the former had 118 and the latter only Si*. Thero were 81 in MutiruM, and 73 in the N. W. Provinces, 40 in tho Fnnjfib, and only 3 in ltaj* put&uu,' Besides the old journal* in Urdu, nearly twenty now onen ore enumerated this year, bnt the most remarkable must he Mr Shonp* tumak&r, '* Suu of tho day," edited by Mirza Abdulah at Cabul. a* that place never hero re produced anything like a newspaper, —an evident pioneer of civilization, to which even Afghanistan must shortly open. In that turbulent country neither authors nor I nitrous of literature seem to exist, hut in India wo have several Native princes who take a lively interest in the advancement of the country: tho MuUirtljcts of Fattiala, of Jaypur, of Kashmir, and of Travankor are mentioned as founders of school* and enoeuragero uf lllerutury. According to his usual custom, tho veuurablo professor terminates his review for Mm year with A necrology, which consists), happily, of only four names:— H. l Ashdahah Bnhftdur, prince of Arkai, who died at the age of 72; Kaja Kali Krishna Bahadur died at Tlanaros on the uged 70; our lamented townsman Dr. Bhlu DA ji on May 30; and B4bu PyAri Mohan BAuarji, Xovomber 10th, IS74, E. E.
 * >kby the Medical College of Labor. Tito