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32 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BENGALI BOOKS. 144. RAM, King of Ayodhya, Life of, by Raklial Das Haldar, pp. 41, 1854, 4 as. Roz. & Co. Professes to separate the mythical part from the historical, on a similar plan to that of a civilian, R. Cust, Esq., in the N W. P., who Has just published a life of Ram on the same principle for native schools m English. The author brings to his task an acquaint ance with some of the best English and native writers. His efforts to ^ rescue an important period of Hindu history from the inventions of poets and priests, deserve encouragement. We have in this memoir Ram's skill in archery and his marriage at Tirhut : the virtues of his wife : his invasion of Ceylon, and his introduction of Brahminical colonies into the south of India. 145. (A. B.) ROMAN HISTORY, Rome purabrita, by K. Banerjea, 2 vols., pp. 610, 2 Rs. Roz. & Co., 1848. Eutropius is the chief authority, with quotations from Arnold, Hooke, Gibbon, Niebuhr, gives an introductory essay on the study of history : the chief events in Roman History are given from the foundation of the city to the destruction of the Wes- tern Empire. Published in Bengali also, which is out of print. 146. (E. T.) ROME, Mukerjie's tr. of Pinnock's and Goldsmith's Rome, p. p., 1854, pp. 559, 6 Rs. An useful work, but too high priced for schools. Gives examination questions at the end of each chapter. MSDXCXNS. The establishment in 1851 of a Bengali Class, in the Medical College, with 50 Government scholarships of 6 Rupees each per mensem, in which lectures are delivered in Bengali, on Anatomy, Materia Medica, the Practice of Medi- cine — will we hope soon lead to a considerable increase of Bengali Medical class works. Wise in his commentaryon Hindu Medicine, shows the amount of knowledge of the Hin- dus on this point, and Royle proves that the Hindus knew medicine before the Greeks did. In 1818 appeared the Vided Nindd, a treatise ridiculing physicians, according to the old adage, " the destruction of 100 lives makes a physician, of 1,000 a doctor." Ram Komul Sen anxious to spread medical knowledge in the Vernacular, published in 1819, (E. T.) Aushadh Sdr Sangraha, pp. 95, in which he gave the names, origin, use and node of application of 56 diner-