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 SF-nrxnun, 187$*] 2USn:u.~EA. 281 MIBCELLAN PAkIk!. " Ssuskrifc Grsmxmur is baud on tha gram' l1 BptUM I'-eimi, a trritOV now generally supposed to hara bred in tha fourth iy UX. Ar tkll ;?3n*kfit had - to In a tiring language and was only kept np rnwlf? the vtbiuta for th cation of i he upper cIam^i, It would bo inter- imLiii! t*gQ Piniul chose na the standard of bis observations. It was cor* talnlv idiom or fchft Vnibw, as bo Arhfam treats this with his usual accuracy, niiJ only mentions It in order to show its discrepancies from the oliifcbi or. an he terms it, the language of the world. We believe that long before hit own time n scientific and poetirol liUr had already sprang up. and thai a certain number of writ era were chosen by him and hi* predecessor* as thn representatives and patterns of the classical language. Piniul was himself a poet, and thn great commentary on hii grammatical contains many fragments of • r y, Trca* i!» law. Icing anterior to tin; luw-dwk of Mauu, lance, and names of ancient writer* on otbur than sacred auhjects are frequently v or this may be. It is <(uite curtain that tha so-called classical rinnskrit, as taught by Fftnini and bin mi rn or 01 ra rind imitutori, hi nut a language which bad its foundation in thn colloquial usage of an entire nation or the oAk portion orit but rattier to vireof grammatical Bohoob which led thcni^dves fin the rich patrimony of previous illustrious aged, development ol i striking analogy in the Rabbinic language, which alio is in bo traced baok to the endeavour* of scholars to endue with nen idiom, rapidly dying out ."— Hfe*i Pro/ . &> taj PliibA'Xjical Saci«ty on Santkrit *r mark. HOOK NOTICES. 3I*rof Aarcmm I>nu. by Col H. Ynw, C.ll., Wra. South** Etitorkal Atliw of A&witl (WtrsuaT, Bibtiiml and CLutkaL iLoodon : J, Murruy. 1ST4). It h about twenty-two years sinea Dr. H. Kieporft of Berlin constructed bis "Map 1 Ancient India with tho Indian, Classical, and principal Modern names" (0 illu'tratn ProL Lassen'* Imilicke Ali<'rthum*kun&. It was com- piled, of course, directly nnder tho teamed las* onsl supervision, on a scale of I to (MK), and measuring 23 by 28 inches, with additional tnant, in the corners, of the boundaries or the modarn Indian binfrnngetf. wad of the Indo Chinese Peninsula and adjacent islands. Being the Unit serious attempt to identify on the map of modern India the unmet mentioned by Ptolemy* Strabo, Arrian, and other Greek writers, nod to eotnbino with thi-ax tho geographical notice* of Sanskrit writers, it was only to bo espwtod tlutt errors would occur. Tho map w«i, however, a creditable perforimuice. and though "dentin" cations of important hwHtllties were mado with some degree of rashncus wud hud to lie re* on, and whf la tha Sanskrit names ware di»- figtircd by Lassen':* |H.fulinritie* of translitera- tion — using k for *f, </ for ir, and/ far *f, — it was • unable to the student of I vA |uily. Colonel Y ule's map is not soambittous as Kiimnrt's : it give* indeed both Arabic and Sanskrit name* in fluiftu frtlrrf. but only a few of them, apparently with the object of attesting tho cor- rectness of the identification of the Greek names. The map is only an half tha scale of KieportV and •niersaro filled up ; urged map oi'Penlepotamicaor tho Panjab, (2) a small m the Eiifltorri Pesmua!*, and (3) of La*BCn*h India of Ptolemy. It is needless to say that Col. 'i map differs widely from, and fa superior to Kicpcrt's in the location of tha names mentioned in Clreek writers. The Oriental "indent will ouly regret that it is not on a larger scale, and made to embrace tho Sanskrit geography ah- > tho time luw now come when wo ought to have maps to illustrate not only the ancient Western classics, but also the India of Bttddhtm tunl TlrAh mari leal writer* down to the i d tury, and of the Arabs and others from the eighth to the .till of the fourteenth century. With the modern imprormnenta in the printing of maps, it would ■usy master U *, together with a rudly good modern map, all fruui llu- same phyaieal onttines, on a ncnta nf betwaen IS&and leij or about 2 10 »ii inch Fyur muIi mops would be invaiuabla to Oriental iits avarywbere, and would help to settle many doubtful geogiiiphy of India, whothsr Greek, Chinese, Arab, or Sanskrit. la the wtnductwu to the AUaa, Colonel Ynla* has jndicion wly gone into c naidarahli detail QBinji nearh jely printed ]»gait, aach the tixn of hi* map,— on tho grounds of hi* many new tificatkms. This iutrodurtioo is full of important