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 204 [July, IS73. THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. he has taken the trouble to count and classify the words he has placed in his dictionary. There are 25,268 words explained. Other words introduced in the course of explanation raise the total to 25,856. These are classified as follows:— Sanskrit, pure or slightly changed 5,831 Do. more changed (apabhransa W) 17,006 Foreign words  2,1)58 25,855 In every hundred words there are— Sanskrit, pure or slightly changed... 23 Do. more changed (aj«ibliransa) 66 Foreign   11 100 Of the foreign words there are from— Persian aud Arabic   8 English   1 Others  2 11 Substantives number   17,350 Pronouns  47 Adjectives   3,746 Verbs  (  2,218 Verbals (kpidanta )  569 Particles (avyaya  1,338 25,208 We hope the author will be liberally rewarded by the public. Every Gujarati scholar will find it to his advantage to add tho Narma Kosa to his library. The book has been printed partly in Bhftva- nagar, and partly at the Mission Press, Surat. The printing in the latter establishment is evi¬ dently of a superior character. Supplement to a Classical Dictionary op India illus. trative of the Mythology, Philosophy, Literature, Antiquities, Arts, Manners, Customs, &o. of the Hin¬ dus, by John Garrett, Director of Public Instruction in Mysore, Editor of the Bbagavat Gita in Sanskrit and Canarese, &c. &c. 8vo pp. 160,—Madras: Higginbotham & Co. 1873. This Supplement is intended to supply the de¬ fects of Mr. Garrett’s Classical Dictionary of India, published about two years ago. Among the principal new articles are those on Festivals, Castes, Aboriginal tribes, Ac. There aro also many ad¬ ditions to articles in tho Dictionary. The work is principally a compilation, tho books that have supplied most materials being H. H. Wilson’s Works, Muir’s Sanskrit Texts, Sherring’s Tribes and Casks of India, Dubois’s Manners and Cue- toms of the People of India, The Indian Antiquary, Frederika Richardson’s Iliml of the East, and Goldstiicker’a contributions to Chambers’s Ency¬ clopaedia ; but it is to be regretted that the compiler did not avail himself more fully of the European literature of his subject. Tho continental Orient¬ alists are only referred to through translations, though the writings of Burnouf.Polier, Lassen, We¬ ber, Benfey, Zenker, aud others would afford great masses of information on any of the subjects treated of. It is unfortunate too that Mr. Garrett sometimes fails to make the best use of the mate¬ rials at his disposal: the most glaring instance of this is probably his account of the Mahavahso (p. 74), which consists simply of an incident related in chapter VII. of the work, and given by Prof. Weber in a long note on his Essay on the Rdinfiyana (Ind. Ant. Vol. I. pp. 173, 174). Yet with all its defects—arising chiefly from its being the work of a single individual, instead of the combined production of different writers— Mr. Garrett’s Dictionary is a highly important work, and, upon the whole, exceedingly creditable to the industry of a singlo labourer. It will form a suitable basis for any more elaborate and com¬ plete work that may hereafter be attempted. It is most desirable that we should possess a com¬ prehensive and trustworthy Dictionary, which should be a real help and guide to every student of,Hindu literature and antiquities. The materials are abundant, and they are still accumulating. And even in such vernacular works as Narmada Sankar’s Namnakathd Kosa much important in¬ formation will be found. But no work of this nature can be successfully earned out without the co-operation of many scholars, under the direction of a competent editor, each furnishing contribu¬ tions in the department which he has made the subject of special study. And we feel sure that any one who will undertake such editorship will gladly acknowledge how deeply he is indebted to Mr. Garrett for the valuable labours by which he has prepared the way for our possessing an ade¬ quate Classical Dictionary of India. Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’iian, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India; by Liente- nant-Colonel James Tod. 2nd Edition. 2 vols. royal 8vo (pp. 724 and 719). Madras: Higginbotham & Co. 1873. The first edition of Tod’s Raj&sth&n appeared in 1829 and 1832, and has been long out of print and excessively dear; Messrs. Higginbotham & Co.’s reprint is therefore most welcome. It is well got up, in fine clear type, the notes m even a larger size of type than in the original colossal work.