HUREEREE, comprising an Arabic and Persian dictionary of all the terms contained in that celebrated work, compiled from the best authorities, published by Muoluvee Jan Ulee, now employed in the Arabic department of the College of For William. 5th. The 1st volume of the ULF LUELA, or part of the ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS, in the original Arabic, has been published for the use of the students of the Arabic class in the College of Fort William, by Shuekh Uhmud, attached to the Arabic department of the College. 6th. The 2d volume of the SOORAH, a dictionary of Arabic words, explained in Persian, by Abool Fuzl Moohumud bin Omr bin Khalid, commonly called Jumal, being a translation of a very celebrated Arabic dictionary, intitled the Suhah: revised and corrected according to the authority of the Qamoos, the Shums ool Ooloom, the Deewan ool Udub, and other lexicons of equal celebrity, by Muoluvees Durvesh Ulee, Jan Ulee, Ubdoor Ruheem, and Husun Ulee. 7th. HUDAIQ OOL-BULAGHUT the BowERS OF ELOQUENCE, being a treatise on the rhetoric, poetry and rhyme of the Persians; by Meer Shums ood deen Fnqeer of Dilhee corrected for the press by Muoluvees Jan Ulee and Ubdoor Ruheem. : 8th. The MAGHU KAVYA, an epic poem in the original Sunskrit, the subject of which is the death of Sisoopalu, slain in war by Krishnu.-It consists of 20 cantos, which, with the commentary of Mullee Nath has been edited by Vidyakuru Misru and Shyamulalee Pundits. A full account of this work is given by the learned Mr. Colebrooke in his dissertation on Sunskrit and Prakrit poetry, which is published in the 10th volume of the Asiatic researches. 9th. The first part of Mr. WILSON'S SUNSKRIT AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY, comprising about 500 pages quarto, and containing one half of the alphabet, is nearly printed, and will be published in the course of a few weeks. Books at present in the press, or pre paring for publication. BOORHANI QATIU, the most copious and comprehensive dictionary of the Persian language now extant. The author of this valuable work styles himself in the commencement of his preface, Moohummud Hoosuen ibni Khuluf oot Tubreezee, with the additional poetical title of Boorhan. He has concentrated within the pages of his lexicon, the whole of the sterling matter contained in the Furhung i Juhangeeree; the Mujmooaool Foors of Soorooree and the Soormue Sooluemanee, together with descriptions. of the most useful articles of the Materia Medica as given in the Suhah ool Udweeyuh of Hoosuen ool Unsaree; the whole of which are arranged in an alphabetical succession, according to the plan of Eu ropean dictionaries. In order to comprize within a moderate Oulk such a numerous collection of words purely Persian, together with many Greek, Syriac, and Turkish terms, and an ex tensive variety of metaphorical significations, compounded of Arabic and Persian words, he has wholly abstained from the exhibition of poetical auhorities in support of his definitions and explanatory meanings, as practised by the author of the Juhangeeree and others. The value of the work in manuscript will be considerably enhanced by the labours and exertions of the Editor of this first printed edition, in a careful inspection and revision of the text, a collation of various copies, and the ablest assistance of experienced native scholars. The typographical department has been equally the subject of care and attention, -an excellent fount of types of the Nuskh or Arabic character, recently imported from Europe, has been used for the impression, which, connected with a general observation of the means most likely to insure its beauty and accuracy, afford every reasonable hope of a correct and elegant edition of the best manuscript Dictionary of the Persian language yet presented to the Oriental world.-By Captain Thomas Roebuck, acting Secretary and Examiner in the College of Fort William. 2. The 2d volume of the ULF LUELA, or a part of ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS, in the original Arabic: edited by Shuekh Uhmud, a learned native of Arabia, at present employed in the Arabic department of the College. 3. The second edition of the GooLI BUKAWULEE, a Hindoostanee Tale, originally published by Dr. John Gilchrist, for the use of theStudents of the Hindoostanee class; edited by Captain Roebuck. 4. The QOOTBEE, à celebrated Treatise on Logic, written by Qooth ood Deen, in the Arabic language; revised and prepared for the press at the desire of M.I. Lumsden, L.L.D. Professor of the Arabic and Persian languages in the College of Fort William, by Muoluvese Jan Alle and Aboor Ruheem, employed in the Arabic department of the College of Fort William. 5. A DICTIONARY OF THE PUNJABEE LANGUAGE, arranged according to the Gooroomookhee alphabet, and the Orthography of the Gooroomookhee words, also expressed by the Devunagree character, aad explained in the Persian language, by Kesheeraj, a native of the Punjab, under the superintendence of Captain Roebuck, is also ready for press. immediately. The introduction contains a concise view of the origin of the Hindoo system of mythology; chapter I is devoted to a description of the objects of Hindoo worship; chapter II describes the Hindoo temples, images, priests, and the various. kinds of worship; chapter III notices the various times and seasons of worship; chapter IV points out the different duties, and ceremonies incumbent on both priests and worshippers; chapter V exhibits the views of the Hindoos, relative to a future state; chapter VI enumerates the various kinds of religious devotees and mendicants among the Hindoos; and chapter VII describes the different sects among them. The volume concludes with some general remarks on the objects of worship throughout India, Tartary, China, Japan, &c. &c. II.-A DICTIONARY OF THE BENGALER LANGUAGE, by the Rev. Doctor William Carey. The first volume of this work, comprizing those words which begin with a vowel, is ready for publication. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL A PAMPHLET, entitled British Justice in Africa, just published, calls the attention of Parliament to the manner in which the commercial interests of the country are at present managed on the Gold Coast. Great Britain possesses forts and small adjacent settlements on that coast, designed for the maintenance and protection of trade; and for the support of these facts, salaries of officers, &c. an annual sum of £23,000. is grauted by Parliament to a Corporation called, the Committee of the African Company, the individuals composing which, derive an advantage by being permitted to make their payments in goods sent from England, and from some other incidental sources of profit, It was some time since pointed out by Mr. Meredith, formerly governor of Fort Winnebah, and author of a work, entitled an account of the Gold Coast, &c. that with the very limited means appropriated to the maintenance of the forts and settlements on the Gold Coast, it ought to appear more wonderful how they can be kept up at all, than that they are not kept in a more respectable state, &c." In the present Pamphlet, a Mr. Hutton, a resident merchant, complains of neglect of duty and of the grossest personal violence and ill treatment from a Mr. Dawson, governor of Fort Anamaboe, and whose conduct and language is here represented as of the most vulgar and ruffian-like description. This person, who is at once a governor and a trader, the African Committee retain in the situation which he is thus represented as disgracing. Mr. Hutton states further particulars of the general inefficiency, civil and military, of the government under the Committee; and the reader, who combines the facts produced in this publication, with those to be collected from Mr. Meredith's account, above cited, will probably conclude, that however it may consist with the private interests of the persons composing the Committee, to accept an insufficient sum on the one hand, and administer a despicable and insufficient government on the other, the interests of the country at large demand a total change of things. A WORK of fancy, translated from the pen of a German author, illustrating the manners and religions of the nations which inhabit the East, from Syria to India, has just appeared, under the title of Mahaled and Sedli, or memoirs of a Druse Family, &c. "It possesses," says a critic, "the merit, not merely of relating an interesting love-story, but of describing the Asiatic Journ-No. II. real and living mannery of the Druses, with poetic eloquence and learned fidelity. This pleasing, tender, and uncommon novel is elegantly written, contains much geographical instruction, and may be very useful to those missionaries who are disposing themselves to visit the Syrian churches. It breathes every where a pure morality and a religious tendency. Many notes are affixed explanatory of the allusions to oriental opinions and usages; which display an appropriate erudition, and bring into notice many works of the Germans that are little known even to our orientalists." A WORK on the most important national topics is before the public, under the title of Improved Agriculture, and the Suppression of Smuggling, Property-tax, and Poor's Rates; with the maintenance of rents, cheapness of living, the prosperity of the Farmer, the advancement of commerce, navigation, and manufactures, and the constant employment of the Poor; being a display of the augmentability of the resources of the British Empire, &c. A PORTION of the ashes which fell on the island of Sumbawa (See. p. 92) in April last, was forwarded to Calcutta, which has been analyzed by the Assistant Assay Master of that Presidency, who states the result as follows: "Volcanic ashes from the mountains on the island of Sumbawa, collected in the district of Samarang, after the irrup tion of the 11th of April, 1815. "The substance thus described, was brought in the shape of a powder of a greyish brown colour-void of smell, but possessing a harsh taste; the specific gravity was low, as the powder floated on the surface of the water; before the blow-pipe it melted into a dark brown enamel, and with the aid of borax into a transparent light blue glass. Nitra muriatic acid after a long digestion took up about one-fifth of the weight: and the solution yielded a dark blue precipitate with prussiate of potash, indicating the presence of oxid of iron. "The portion of the powder insoluble in the acid was of a bluish grey colour, infusible per se before the blow-pipe, but convertible into a yellowish glass with the addition of borax-the specific gravity was increased as it now sunk in water; part of the residium mixed with an equal weight of carbonate of potash, and digested repeatedly with sulphuric acid and evaporated, was rendered soluble in boiling water the watery solution concen VOL. 1. 2 A |