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viii Announcement


on the History of Religiono and the titles of their

volumes are as follows:

1894m1895m-«Prof. T. W. Rlzye~Davide, Ph. D.~»--~ Buddhism.

1896—I897ml’rof. Daniel G. Brinton, MU, LI..D.-- Religion of Primitive Peoples.

1897m1898wRev. Prof. T. K. Cheyne, Dileowisll Religious Life after the Exile.

1898m1899mProf. Karl Hudde. D.D.wi-teligion of Israel to the Exile.

1904—«1905w13rof. Georg Steindorll, PILD. m The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians.

Igoswxgodmlirof. George William Knox, 13.13,, LL. D. mThe Development of Religion in Japan.

The present course of lectures, the seventh in the series, was delivered by I’rofesoor Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the Johns Hopkins University, and one of the leading authorities on Vedio Literature. His latest work, a Concordance of the Vedic hymns and prayer formula, covering I 100 pages, theembodiment of a. life’s etudy, published as Vol. 10 of the Harvard Oriental Series,will ensure Professor Bloomfield a peo- man out place in the history of Vedic studies. Besides this he has edited from the manuscripts the Vedic ritual book, known as the KaugikauSutra; published a translation of the Hymns of the Atharva~Veda, in- cluded in Professor Max Mtiller’s Sacred Books of