The third volume of the Rig Veda Sanhita with the commentary of Sayana Charya, by M. Max Muller, has been published and copies are on their way to India.
Another translation of the Hitopadesa has appeared at Paris by M. Lancereau. It is very neatly got up in 12mo. and is enriched with interesting notes tracing the origin and history of the several fables and tales.
The first complete translation of the Persian version of the same work, the Anvari Soheili of Hoseyn Vaz al Cashaei, by Professor Eastwick, was published by Austin of Hertford in 1854.
From the same Press has likewise issued a new edition of the text of the Bhagavat Gita with a translation by J. Cockburn Thompson, 1855.
The VII. No. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1856, which has lately been received, is occupied by an index of the matter contained in the previous volumes from I. to XXIII. and of volumes XIX. and XX. of the Asiatic Researches. It is followed by a supplement repairing omissions in the first and by three special indices—1. of the Numismatic matter contained in the Journal; 2. of translations of ancient inscriptions, reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. VI. and continued to the end of 1854 ; and 3, a geological and mineralogical index to the Gleanings of Science, Asiatic Researches and the Journal of the Society.
A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian, or South Indian Family of Languages, by the Rev. R. Caldwell, London, 8vo. has just been received.
Mr. Caldwell has labored for the last seventeen years as a Missionary in the South of India. During a recent visit to England he completed a Comparative Grammar of the Languages of Southern India, the family of which he divides into nine principal branches, viz. Tamil, Teloogoo, Canarese, Malayalum, Tolu, Toda, Kota, Gond, and Khond. He has discussed in detail the connexion these dialects have with each other, as well as that of the whole family with the families of other languages. He is opposed to Mr. Hodgson's theory
