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 1875.] COEBESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. 221 so full, so exact, and so copiously illustrate.! by references to the ancient literature and history of the country, that the Government ordered them to be printed, and " Ellis's Replies to Seventeen Questions relative to Mirasi Eight" (pp. ti5, with two appendices of pp. 85 and 31, folio, Madras, 1818) continues to this day to be the standard authority on the subject. Another fragment is a selection of stanzas from the first book of the Rural, an ethical poem greatly esteemed by the Tamils. A free metrical version is given of each couplet, followed by a critical analysis of the text, and the subject-matter i illustrated by numerous quotations from the best native writers, interspersed with valuable notes and disquisitions on the mythology, philosophical Ens, und seetarial tenets of the people. Mr. Ellis had proceeded as far as eighteen chapters of the first book when he left Madras, and of these only thirteen were printed, filling 301 quarto pages, without title or date. He probably also left other minor compositions ; such as his essays on the Tamil, Telugu, MJa lim (and perhaps also Canarese?) tongues, for the use of the students In tho College of Fort 86. George : of the third of which a few separate printed copies exist, and the second is embodied in the Introduction to A. D. Campbell's Tolu mi Grammar, but the first I have never seen. Among some refuse papers at the College, I one day dis- covered a translation by him of the Jewish copper- Cochin, find inserted it in vol. siii. pt. - of th Journal. Imperfect as these Reliquiae are, they snffic show what might have been expected from so ripe a scholar, had ho lived to carry out his long, cherished design. — A Walter Elliot. MB. l'IMVERB9.« Th@ word of U ''■'« (ho as- '■,. That is, an assembly of learned men, or men in power. The words of the poor, wi -Into to op . OT bO other injuries, or to opinion, arc not likely to find admission where alone: they can avail. n ihr head •■/ ihe 8t*ttoute. Blame nieion will fall on the head of the onpr ed and friendless. The poor are at work by break of day. forth a female on Friday, siar Pinadam. Used of one suffering from an accumulation of evils- The condition of tho parent, the sex of tho child, the wil Proverb* Con- taining upwards > dw. By the Um. ival, Chaplain. Mndnu Military Female Orphan day of its birth, and its ruling star are alike in- auspicious. Th< ind ajypeare in the face. As grain becomes cheaper, > a joy went increases. He who knows not the price of grain knot- soft&to, A terrible ascetic, em atrocious cheat. The, 'I'ther-in-laiclasteicMU: one's eieU r lives. Will a dog understand the Vedae, although lorn in a J Do not heat down the market price. Do not con- travene the established opinions and practices of the people with whom you are associated. One who. two slaps Iwre arul three c Stunted grain— friendship at sight. Both value- less. A fifth-bom female cannot be obtained, though earnestly sought. A fifth-born female is regarded as the special favourite of fortune, an eighth as the very opposite. Den>- the timid. An five young birds a curry? It a young girl a wife ? A woman of fifty must bend the knee lefore a toy offifa. Referring to the deference paid to the male sex by the Hindoos. a united are strong. One hand smites, the other ffl Discipline regulated by love; used sometimes of Divine tisemfti Wlien a. neighbour's roof is in flames one's oic» if in danger. The leech is not satisfied, nor is fire. Inordinate desire is never satisfied. . - : x 7nonths with an with his wife even half an hour. The first condition is proverbially difficult. hoiv much mOTe BO the second. The forme of worsh ip prescribed f 1 1 four ; for feeding reUguntq its are seventy-four. Thevahteofaj it's decease, that oft II >-L . h'iy-r if then is any torn- Why gratuitously seek avoidable evil? In I. On earth fhxae who have no i nobody. ][■■ irh„ Iffeefl ae /' o-.'jht in Ail world will be Li all the world none really good has been seen. Asylum : Anthor of The Land of th« I". I-'. Ac Soeond, Madras : Dm&roEtamani Press, Little Bourne, Mj- L974.