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1907

CONTENTS.

THE TEA DUTIES.

By Sir Roper Lethbridge, K.C.I.E. .

FACTS OF INTEREST AND CURIOUS POINTS IN MOHAMMEDAN

LAW. By C. D. Steel, Judge U.P. Agra and Oudh .

JAPAN AND THE PEACE. By R. G. Corbet

SOME HINDUSTANI PROVERBS. Collected by the late William

Young, C.S.I., Judicial Commissioner of Oudh

A PLEA FOR COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN CEYLON. By A. G.

Wise

EAST AFRICAN PROTECTORATE

QUARTERLY REPORT ON SEMITIC STUDIES AND ORIENTALISM.

By Professor Dr. Edward Montet

THE EMPEROR BABAR IN THE HABIBU-S-SIYAR. By H. Beveridge

"THE RING FROM JAIPUR." By R. E. Forrest

THE JAGANNATH CAR FESTIVAL. By W. Egerton, I.C.S.

THE YUNAN EXPEDITION OF 1875, AND THE CHEEFOO CONVEN-

TION. Extracts from the Diary of Colonel (now General)

Horace A. Browne

CIVIC LIFE IN INDIA. By A. Yusuf Ali, M.A., LL.M. (Cantab.),

I.C.S.

YOUNG INDIA: ITS HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS. By Shaikh Abdul

Qadir, B.A..

249

THE PARTITION OF BENGAL AND THE BENGALI LANGUAGE. By

S. M. Mitra, M.R.A.S.

263

"MADRAS IRRIGATION AND NAVIGATION -A REPLY. By General

J. F. Fischer, R.E.

278

NORTHERN NIGERIA

304

66 ZARATHUSHTRA, PHILO: THE ACHEMENIDS AND ISRAEL." By

Professor L. Mills, D.D.

314

"Britain's Destiny: Growth or Decay?"-Indian Revenue and Land

Systems. - Roads in Travancore. - Southern Nigeria. — Recent

Agreement: England and Japan.-The Siam Society.-State of

Kelantan, Siam.-The Future of the Hindustáni Language and

Literature. The Education of Children on Plantations in India

and Ceylon.-China and Religion

323

355

136.381

136-169

Akbar's Revenue Settlements. -"Britain's Destiny: Growth or Decay?"
-"Industrial Depression: its Cause and Cure."-"National or
International Currency?"-The Importance of Oriental Classical
Studies.-British Central Africa Protectorate.-Uganda Protec-
torate.-Federated Malay States.-Livingstone College, Leyton,
London, E.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES

The Mahábhárata: A Criticism, by C. V. Vaidyá, M.A., LL.B., Hon.

Fellow of the University of Bombay.-The Emancipation of Egypt,

by A. Z. Translated from the Italian. The Historical Develop-

ment of the Qor'án, by the Rev. Edward Sell, D. D., Honorary

Canon of St. George's Cathedral, Madras, Fellow of the University

of Madras.-River, Land, and Sun, being Sketches of the London

Church Missionary Society's Egypt Mission, by Minna C. Gollock.

-A Catechism of Tamil Grammar, No. 2, by the Rev. G. U. Pope,

M.A., D.D., Lecturer in Tamil and Telugu in the University of

Oxford, etc.-The Far Eastern Tropics: Studies in the Adminis-

tration of Tropical Dependencies, by Alleyne Ireland, F.R.G.S.—

The Risen Sun, by Baron Suyematsu.-John of Damascus, by

Douglas Ainslie. -Les Mémoires Historiques de Se-ma Ts'ien.

Translated and annotated by Édouard Chavannes, Professor at the

College of France. -Le Shinn-toïsme, by Michel Revon, formerly

Professor of French Law at the Imperial University, Tōkyō.-A

History of Ottoman Poetry, by the late E. J. W. Gibb. Edited

by Edward G. Browne, M.A., M.B., Sir Thomas Adams Professor

of Arabic and Fellow of Pembroke College in the University of

Cambridge. Hebrew Humour, and other Essays, by J. Chotzner,

Ph.D., late Hebrew Tutor at Harrow.-The Private Diary of

Ananda Ranga Pillai, Dubâsh to Joseph François Dupleix. Trans-

lated from the Tamil, by order of the Government of Madras, by

Sir E. Frederick Price, K.C.S.I., assisted by K. Rangachari, B. A.

Vol. I.-Historical and Modern Atlas of the British Empire.

Specially prepared for Students by C. Grant Robertson, M. A.,

Oxon, Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford, and J. G. Bartholomew,

F.R.S. E., F.R.G.S.-China and Religion, by E. H. Parker,

Professor of Chinese at the Victoria University of Manchester.-

From the Cape to the Zambesi, by G. T. Hutchinson. With an

introduction by Colonel F. Rhodes, C.B., D.S.O.; with many

illustrations from photographs by Colonel Rhodes and the author.

-Muḥammad and the Rise of Islám, by D. S. Margoliouth.-

Tibet and Turkestan: A Journey through Old Lands and a Study

of New Conditions, by Oscar Terry Crosby, F.R.G.S.—An Abridged

Translation into English of Ibn Isfandiyar's History of Tabaristán,

by E. G. Browne, M. A., M. B.-Das religiöse Leben des Hindus,

von Ad. Stiegelmann ("Christenthum und Zeitgeist," Hefte zu

Glauben und Wissen, Heft VI.).—The Gold and Silver Wares of

Assam: A Monograph, by F. C. Henniker, I.C.S.-A Monograph

on Gold and Silver Ware produced in the United Provinces, by

A. P. Charles, Esq., B.A., I.C.S.

PAGES

381-394

170, 395

170-206

The Jātaka; or, Stories of the Buddha's former Births. Translated from

the Pali by various hands under the editorship of Professor E. B.

Cowell. Vol. V. Translated by H. T. Francis, M.A., sometime

Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.-The Lands of

the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia,

from the Moslem Conquest to the time of Timur ("Cambridge

Geographical Series "), by G. le Strange.-A Tamil Prose Reader,

by the Rev. G. U. Pope, M.A., D.D., Balliol College, Oxford.-

Géographie de l'Empire de Chine (Cours Superieur), by Rev. L.

Richard, S.J. (Hia Chï-shï).—The Philosophy of the Upanishads,

by Paul Deussen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy in the University

of Kiel. Authorized English translation by Rev. A. S. Geden,

M.A., Tutor in Old Testament Languages, Literature, and Classics,

Wesleyan College, Richmond.--With the Abyssinians in Somali-

land, by Major J. Willes Jennings, D.S Ó., R.A.M.C., and

Christopher Addison, M.D. With a preface by Colonel A. N.

Rochfort, C. B.-Shinto: the Way of the Gods, by W. G. Aston,

C.M.G., D. Lit. -Part I. of the Tadhkiratu 'L-Awliyá (" Memoirs

of the Saints") of Muhammad ibn Ibráhím Farídu' DDin 'Attár.