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TRUBNER'S ORIENTAL SERIES. In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. cviii.-242, and viii.-370, cloth, price 24s. Dedicated by permission to H.R.H. the Prince of "Wales. BUDDHI&T RECORDS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsiang (a.d. 629). By SAMUEL BEAL, B.A., (Trin. Coll., Camb.) ; R.N. (Retired Chaplain and N. I. ) ; Professor of Chinese, University College, London ; Rector of Wark, Northumberland, &c. An eminent Indian authority writes respecting this work : — " Nothing more can be done in elucidating the History of India until Mr. Beal's trans- lation of the ' Si-yu-ki ' appears." "It is a strange freak of historical preservation that the best account of the con- dition of India at that ancient period has come down to us in the books of travel written by the Chiiiese pilgrims, of whom Hwen Thsang is the best known." — Times. Post 8vo, pp. xlviii.-398, cloth, price 12s. THE ORDINANCES OF MANU. Translated from the Sanskrit, with an Introduction. By the late A. C. BURNELL, Ph.D., CLE. Completed and Edited by E. W. HOPKINS, Ph.D., of Columbia College, N.Y. "This work is full of interest ; while for the student of sociology and the science of religion it is full of importance. It is a great boon to get so notable a work in so accessible a form, admirably edited, and competently translated." — Scotsman. ' ' Few men were more competent than Burnell to give us a really good translation of this well-known law book, first rendered into English by Sir "William Jones. Burnell was not only an independent Sanskrit scholar, but an experienced lawyer, and he joined to these two important qualifications the rare faculty of being able to express his thoughts in clear and trenchant English. . . . We ought to feel very grateful to Dr. Hopkins for having given us all that could be published of the trans- lation left by Burnell." — F. Max MUller in the Academy. Post Svo, pp. xii.-234, cloth, price 9s. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ALEXANDER CSOMA DE KOROS, Between 1819 and 1842. With a Short Notice of all his Published and Un- published Works and Essays. From Original and for most part Un- published Documents. By THEODORE DUKA, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Surgeon-Major H.M.'s Bengal Medical Service, Retired, &c. "Not too soon have Messrs. Triibner added to their valuable Oriental Series a history of the life and works of one of the most gifted and devoted of Oriental students, Alexander Csoma de Koros. It is forty-three years since his death, and though an account of his career was demanded soon after his decease, it has only now appeared in the important memoir of his compatriot, Dr. Duka." — Bookseller.