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TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Post 8vo, pp. X. — 130, cloth, price 6s. A MANUAL OF HINDU PANTHEISM. VEDANTASARA. Translated, with copious Annotations, By Major G. A. JACOB, Bombay Staff Corps ; Inspector of Army Schools. The design of this little work is to provide for missionaries, and for others who, like them, have little leisure for original research, an accurate summary of the doctrines of the Ved^nta. " The modest title of Major Jacob's work conveys but an inadequate idea of the vast amount of research embodied in liis notes to the text of the Vedantasara. So copious, indeed, are these, and so much collateral matter do they bring to bear on the subject, that the diligent student will rise from their perusal with a fairly adequate view of Hindil philosophy generally. His work ... is one of the best of its kind that we have sqqu."— Calcutta Review. Post 8vo, pp. xii. — 154, cloth, price 7s. 6d. TSUNI— 1 1 GOAM : The Supreme Being op the Khoi-Khoi. By THEOPHILUS HAHN, Ph.D., Custodian of the Grey Collection, Cape Town ; Corresponding Member of the Geegr. Society, Dresden ; Corresponding Member of the Anthropological Society, Vienna, &c. , &c. •'The first instalment of Dr. Hahn's labours will be of interest, not at the Cape only, but in every University of Europe. It is, in fact, a most valuable contribution to the comparative study of religion and mythology. Accounts of their religion and mythology were scattered about in various books ; these have been carefully col- lected by Dr. Hahn and printed in his second chapter, enriched and improved by what he has been able to collect himself." — Prof. Max Muller in the Nineteenth Century. " It is full of good things."— >Si. James's Gazette. In Four Volumes. Post 8vo, Vol. I., pp. xii. — 392, cloth, price 12s. 6d., Vol. II., pp. vi. — 408, cloth, price 12s. 6d., Vol. III., pp. viii. — 414, cloth, price 12s. 6d., Vol. IV., pp. viii. — 340, cloth, price los. 6d. A COMPREHENSIVE COMMENTARY TO THE QURAN. To WHICH IS PREFIXED SaLE's PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, WITH Additional Notes and Emendations. Together with a Complete Index to the Text, Preliminary Discourse, and Notes. By Eev. E. M. WHERRY, M. A., Lodiana. " As Mr. Wherry's book is intended for missionaries in India, it is no doubt well that they should be prepared to meet, if they can, the ordinary arguments and inter- pretations, and for this purpose Mr. Wherry's additions will prove useful." — Saturdaj^ Review.