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Legge.-THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS, with Explanatory
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Leitner.-THE RACES AND LANGUAGES OF DARDISTAN.

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LEITNER, M. A., Ph.D., Honorary Fellow of King's College late on Special Duty in Kashmir, Leland.- HANS BREITMANN'S PARTY. With other Ballads. By CHARLES G. LELAND. Eighth Edition. Square, pp. xvi. and 74, sewed. 18. Leland.-HANS BREITMANN'S CHRISTMAS. With other Ballads. By CHARLES G. LELAND. Second edition. Square, pp. 80, sewed. 18. Leland.-HANS BREITMANN AS A POLITICIAN. BY CHARLES G. LEland. Second edition. Square, pp. 72, sewed. 18.

Lesley.-MAN'S ORIGIN AND DESTINY, Sketched from the Platform of the Sciences, in a Course of Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, in Boston, in the Winter of 1865-6. By J. P. LESLEY, Member of the National Academy of the United States, Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. Numerous Woodcuts. Crown 8vo. pp. 392, cloth. 10s. 6d.

Lobscheid.-ENGLISH AND CHINESE DICTIONARY, with the Punti and Mandarin Pronunciation. By the Rev. W. LOBSCHEID, Knight of Francis Joseph, C.M.I. R. G. S. A., N. Ž.B.S.V., etc. Folio, pp. viii. and 2016. In Four Parts. £8 8s. Lobscheid.-CHINESE AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Arranged according to the Radicals. By the Rev. W. LOBSCHEID, Knight of Francis Joseph, C.M.I.R.G.S.A., N.Z.B.S.V., &c. 1 vol. imp. 8vo. double columns, pp. 800. [In the press. Ludewig (Hermann E.)-The LITERATURE of AMERICAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES. With Additions and Corrections by Professor WM. W. TURNER. Edited by NICOLAS TRÜBNER. 8vo. fly and general Title, 2 leaves; Dr. Ludewig's Preface, pp. v.—viii.; Editor's Preface, pp. iv.-xii.; Biographical Memoir of Dr. Ludewig, pp. xiii.-xiv.; and Introductory Biographical Notices, pp. xiv.-xxiv., followed by List of Contents. Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bibliotheca Glottica, alphabetically arranged, with Additions by the Editor, pp. 1-209; Professor Turner's Additions, with those of the Editor to the same, also alphabetically arranged, pp. 210-246; Index, pp. 247-256; and List of Errata, pp. 257, 258. Handsomely bound in cloth. 10s. 6d.

Manava-Kalpa-Sutra; being a portion of this ancient Work on Vaidik Rites, together with the Commentary of KUMARILA-SWAMIN. A Facsimile of the MS. No. 17, in the Library of Her Majesty's Home Government for India. With a Preface by THEODOR GOLDSTÜCKER. Oblong folio, pp. 268 of letterpress and 121 leaves of facsimiles. Cloth. £4 4s.

Manipulus Vocabulorum; A Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language. By Peter Levins (1570) Edited, with an Alphabetical Index by HENRY B. WHEATLEY. 8vo. pp. xvi. and 370, cloth. 148.

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Megha-Duta (The). (Cloud-Messenger.) By Kālidāsa. By Kalidasa. Translated from the Sanskrit into English verse, with Notes and Illustrations. By the late H. H. WILSON, M. A., F. R. S., Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford, etc., etc. The Vocabulary by FRANCIS JOHNSON, Sometime Professor of Oriental Languages at the College of the Honourable the East India Company, Haileybury. New Edition. 4to. cloth, pp. xi. and 180. 10s. 6d. Memoirs read before the ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 18631864. 8vo., pp. 542, cloth. 21s.

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Moffat.-THE STANDARD ALPHABET PROBLEM; or the Preliminary Subject of a General Phonic System, considered on the basis of some important facts in the Sechwana Language of South Africa, and in reference to the views of Professors Lepsius, Max Müller, and others. A contribution to Phonetic Philology. By ROBERT MOFFAT, junr., Surveyor, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 8vo. pp. xxviii. and 174, cloth. 7s. 6d.

Molesworth.-A DICTIONARY, MÁRATHI and ENGLISH.

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Morley.-A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS in the ARABIC and PERSIAN LANGUAGES preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. By WILLIAM H. MORLEY, M.R.A.S. 8vo. pp. viii. and 160, sewed. London, 1854. 2s. 6d.

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