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TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. Post 8vo, pp. vi.— 208, cloth, price 8s. 6d. THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. Translated, with Introduction and Notes. By JOHN DAVIES, M.A. (Cantab.) " Let us add that his translation of the Bhagavad Gita is, as we judge, the best that has as yet appeared in English, and that his Philological Notes are of quite peculiar value." — Dublin Review. Post 8vo, pp. 96, cloth, price 5s. THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Translated by E. H. WHINFIELD, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, late H.M. Bengal Civil Service. Post 8vo, pp. xxxii. — 336, cloth, price los. 6d. THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The Persian Text, with an English Verse Translation. By E. H. WHINFIELD, late of the Bengal Civil Service. " Mr. Whinfield has executed a diflBcult task with considerable success, and his version contains much that will be new to those who only know Mr. Fitzgerald's delightful selection."— J cadgmy. "The most prominent features in the Quatrains are their profound agnosticism, combined with a fatalism based more on pliilosophic than religious grounds, their Epicureanism and the spirit of universal tolerance and charity which animates them." — Calcutta Review. Post 8vo, pp. xxiv. — 268, cloth, price 9s. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISHADS AND ANCIENT INDIAN METAPHYSICS. As exhibited in a series of Articles contributed to the Calcutta Review. By ARCHIBALD EDWARD GOUGH, M.A., Lincoln College, Oxford ; Principal of the Calcutta Madrasa. " For practical purposes this is perhaps the most important of the works that have thus far appeared in ' Trubner's Oriental Series.' . . . We cannot doubt that for all who may take it up the work must be one of profound interest." — Saturday Review. In Two Volumes. Vol. I., post 8vo, pp. xxiv. — 230, cloth, price 7s. 6d. A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIAN AND MESOPOTAMIAN RELIGIONS. By Dr. C. P. TIELE. Vol. I.— History of the Egyptian Religion. Translated from the Dutch with the Assistance of the Author. By JAMES BALLINGAL. " It places in the hands of the English readers a history of Egyptian Religion which is very complete, which is based on the best materials, and which has been illustrated by the latest results of research. In this volume there is a great deal of information, as well as independent investigation, for the trustworthiness of which Dr. Tide's name is in itself a guarantee ; and the description of the successive religions under the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom, is given in a manner which is scholarly and minute." — Scotsman.