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AUTHOE'S PREFACE. This Catalogue of Bengali l)ooks acquired during the last 24 years forms a supplement to the Bengali Catalogue published in 1886. It has been prepared on the same principles, and with the same system of transliteration. The editions of the Bible, and portions of the Biiile, which are entered in the Catalogue of 188G have l)een embodied in the present volume, in order to make this article quite complete. All the entries under this heading have been carefully revised with the help of the " Historical Catalogue of the printed editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society," by T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule. As no Subject-Index was prepared for the former catalogue, the titles of all the Works in that catalogue have been included in the Subject-Index of this volume, those of works entered only in the catalogue of 1886 being indicated by an asterisk, and those of editions of the same work which appear in both catalogues being marked by a dagger. The English, or other European, title of a liook is entered in the General Index when it has no Bengali title. Works with both Encflish and Bengali titles are shown under the Bengali title only, except newspapers and other periodicals. In the case of a work having an alternative title, both are entered in the General Index, and only the principal title in the Subject-Index, with the other printed in brackets. J. F. BLUilHARDT. LONDOX, August 8, 1910.