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CONTENTS.

Vol. I.-Preface-Treatise on the Dramatic System of the Hindus-Dramas translated from the
Original Sanskrit-The Mrichchakati, or the Toy Cart-Vikrama and Urvasi, or the
Hero and the Nymph-Uttara Ramá Cheritra, or continuation of the History of
Ramá.
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Necklace-Appendix, containing short accounts of different Dramas.

Wilson.-THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CULTIVATION OF ORIENTAL
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Wylie.-NOTES ON CHINESE LITERATURE; with introductory Remarks
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Yates.-A BENGÁLÍ GRAMMAR. By the late Rev. W. YATES, D.D.,
Reprinted, with improvements, from his Introduction to the Bengálí Language.
Edited by I. WENGER. Fcap. Svo., pp. iv. and 150, bds. Calcutta, 1864. 3s. 6d

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