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GREY, K. C.B., Her Majesty's High Commissioner of the Cape Colony. Classed, annotated, and edited by SIR GEORGE GREY and DR. W. H. J. BLEEK.
Vol. I. Part 1.-South Africa, 8vo. pp. 186. 78. 6d.
Vol. I. Part 2.-Africa (North of the Tropic of Capricorn), 8vo. pp. 70. 2s. Vol. I. Part 3.-Madagascar, 8vo. pp. 24. 18.
Vol. II. Part 1.-Australia, Svo. pp. iv, 44. 1s. 6d.
Vol. II. Part 2.-Papuan Languages of the Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides, comprising those of the Islands of Nengone, Lifu, Aneiteum, Tana, and others, 8vo. pp. 12. 6d.
Vol. II. Part 3.-Fiji Islands and Rotuma (with Supplement to Part 2, Papuan Languages, and Part 1, Australia). Svo. pp. 34. 1s. Vol. II. Part 4.-New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, and Auckland Islands, Svo. pp. 76. 3s. 6d.
Vol. II. Part 4 (Continuation).-Polynesia and Borneo, 8vo. pp. 77 to 154. 38. 6d. The above is, without exception, the most important addition yet made to African Philology. The amount of materials brought together by Sir George, with a view to elucidate the subject, is stupendons; and the labour bestowed on them, and the results arrived at, incontestably establish the claim of the Author to be called the father of African and Polynesian Philology.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
"We congratulate the Governor of the Cape on the production of a most important aid to the study of the twin sciences of philology and ethnology, and look forward to the completion of the Catalogue itself as a great and permanent step towards civilization of the barbarous races whose formation, habits, language, religion, and food, are all, more or less, most carefully noted in its pages."- Leader.
"It is for these substantial reasons that we deemed it worth a brief notice to call attention to these excellently arranged Catalogues (with important notes), describing the various works in the library of Sir George Grey, and by which this great philanthropist will greatly aid in civilizing the numerous peoples within the limit of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope."Brighton Gazelle.
AMERICAN PHILOLOGY.
COLLECCAO DE VOCABULOS E FRASES usados na Provincia de S. Pedro de Rio Grande do Sul no Brazil. 16mo. pp. 32. sewed. 2s 6d EVANGELIARIUM, EPISTOLARIUM ET LECTIONARIUM AZTECUM, sive
Mexicanum, ex Antiquo Codice Mexicano, nuper reperto, depromptum cum praefatione interpretatione adnotationibus Glossario edidit BERNARDINUS BIONDELLI. Folio. pp. 1, 574. 1858. (Only 400 copies printed, on stont writingpaper. Bound half Morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.) price 67 68 The very interesting Codex of which the above is a careful reprint, was discovered in Mexico by Beltrami in the year 1826, and came into the hands of the present editor by purchase from the heirs. It is composed in the purest and most elegant Nahuatl, that was ever written, by Bernardino Sahagun, a Spanish monk of the Franciscan order, with the assistance of two Scions of royalty in Anahuac, one the son of Montezuma, the other the son of the Prince of Tezcueo--and purports to be a "postilla" (post illa, scilicet textus verba) on the Gospels and Epistles. Sahagun arrived at Mexico in the year 1529, and lived and laboured with great success in that country for fully sixty years. Of his many works in and on the Nahuatl language the above is the only one which has been saved from perdition. Mr. Biondelli has accompanied Sahagun's text by a Latiu version, has added a copious Vocabulary, Nahuatl and Latin, and, by his introductory observations, has thrown considerable light not alone upon the Nahuatl language, its affinity to other families of languages, its grammatical peculiarities, but also upon the traditions, institutions, and monuments of the Aztecs thus forming a complete treasury of everything appertaining to the ancient Aztecs. Altogether this work is probably one of the most important contributions ever made to American philology, and cannot henceforth be dispensed with by the Student of this branch of linguistics.
THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES. By HERMANN E. LUDEWIG. With Additions and Corrections by Professor WM. W. TURNER. Edited by NICOLAS TRÜBNER. Svo.; fly and general Title, 2 leaves; Dr. Ludewig's Preface, pp. v-viii; Editors' Preface, pp. ix-xii; Biographical Memoir of Dr. Ludewig, pp. xiii, xiv; and Introductory Bibliographical Notices, pp. xiv-xxiv, followed by List of
