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stantinople, impr. Ebu'zzia, 1303 (1886), 1 Sibinuï or Massinai. The certain reading is vol. 8vo. pp. 184, and index. Review by M. Asi, and during the lower epochs Asinai. The Cl. Huart. The East has had many veritable only ancient name connected with the island poets who have sung of Gastronomy-such as which resembles Asinai is that of the town of Ibn-ar-Rami, Abu'l Husên Koshêjim, Ibn-al. Asine. On the other hand, Asi at once recalls Mo'tazz, and many others, extracts from whom the ancient name of Asia-Asia. Now, Cyprus have been preserved to us in the pages of Mas'udi. baving been one of the first colonies founded by The present work, known in Persia and Turkey the Greek Achæans, one may ask if the name of under the popular name of BSshaq-i-Atimah (the Asia, which classical antiquity applied to the BO. Iabag of the cuisine), by abbreviation of the Peninsula, and afterwards to the entire continame of the author, Maulana Aba-Ishaq Hall&j-
i nent did not come from this name As, which Shirazi, has just been published at Constantinople the Egyptian' monuments show us as applied to under the direction of the learned Orientalist Cyprus from the time of Thothmes HII., and which Mirz& Habib al-Içfahåni, and deserves attention. is unknown to the editors of Assyrian documents.
According to the Taskdrat ash-sho'ard of Daulat M. Halévy then continued his memoir on Shah, Abu-Ishaq was a simple cotton-carder Genesis X. He maintained that the account of the (Hallaj, who, owing to the neatness of his sayings, tower of Babel, deals not with all mankind, but became admitted without difficulty into the society only with the Shemites, already separated from the of the great personages of the town of Shiraz, and descendants of Ham and Japhet. According to frequented especially the court of prince Iskandar, this theory, it was only amongst the Shomito son of Omar Shekh, and grandson of Tamerlan that the confusion of tongues and the dispersion
The principal use of this new publication will which resulted therefrom took place. be to enrich our lexicons with technical terms on At the meeting of the 29th October, the cookery. We are also promised, on pages 4-5 of the Academy fixed the subjects for the ordinary prices work, a similarly useful poem on costume, entitled for 1889,- vix. A study on the Hindu Theatre, the Diwan-i-Albisth of Nizhamud din Mahmud and a study on the sources of the Annals and Qari.
History of Tacitus. The competition for the The present edition depends on two copies of former ought to interest Indian readers. different editions published in Persia, and long 1 Miscellaneous.His Majesty the King of Swe. since out of print. This text has been corrected den and Norway has instituted two prizes for the by the editor, who is also author of the Alpha- best work on two subjects of high importance relat. betical Glossary, which completes the farhanging to the knowledge of the East, from a historical written by AbQ-Ishaq himself, and to which the
and linguistic point of view. Each prize will consist Turkish and Arabic synonyms have been supplied. of a large gold medal of the value of a thousand The book is strongly recommended as a most
Swedish crowns, and of a sum of one thousand useful edition to our Library of Persian Classics.
two hundred and fifty Swedish crowns in money. although disfigured here and there by bad mis- The first subjects fixed upon are: (1) the history takes and misprints.
of the Shemitic languages, and (2) the state of Proceedings of the Académie des Inscriptions
civilization of the Arabe before Muḥammad. et Belles-Lettres.-At the meeting of the 13th
Manuscripts may be written in a Scandinavian August 1886, M. Halévy continued the read.
language, or in Latin, German, French, English, ing of his essay on the Genealogical Table
Italian or Arabic. They should be submitted, in Genesis X., and proposed new ideutifications
without the author's name, but carrying a motto. for several geographical names which have not
before the 30th June 1888. Full particulars will yet been satisfactorily explained. Differing from
be found on p. 318 of the Revue Critique for those who attribute this table to three different
25th October 1886.
G. A. GRIERSON. authors, he maintained its unity. The people enumerated in Chapter X. are classed according to a CURIOSITIES OF INDIAN LITERATURE.
CALUMNY. geographical system. Behind this arrangement is concealed the arrière pensée of forming an alliance
The following verses on Calumny are very between the Israelites and Japhetitea, or peoples of popular in Mithila. The first two are said to be the north, against the Phoenicians, whose prepon. anonymous, the latter are said to be in the Bhsia. derance gave great anxiety to the Hebrew patriots. prabandhasdra, a work which I have not seen.
and which I am assured is a distinct work from At the meeting of the 20th August, M. Maspero submitted an hypothesis regarding the Origin of
the well-known Bhojaprabandha. the Name of Asia. The name for the island of the area anu Cyprus in Egyptian has been read 'Amavi, Asi, कर्णमूलं दशत्वन्यं हरत्यन्बस्व जीवनम् ॥
