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should not bear the name of the author, but a should be addressed, before the end of October motto, and should be accompanied by a sealed 1889, to the Secretary of the Academy M. H. G. envelope bearing the same motto, and enclosing Zeuthen, Professor at the University of Copen. the name, profession, and address of the author. hagen. The prizes will be declared in February Members of the Academy who reside in Denmark 1890, and the authors can thereupon have their will take no part in the competition. Answers essays returned to them. G. A. GRIERSON.
MISCELLANEA. PROGRESS OF EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP. is the former which has usually had the worst of No. XV.
it. One of the best proofs of this is the differences A Year of the Revue Critique; July 1887 to of doctrine between the various legal schools. Do June 1888.
these schools really represent the law of their (a) Aug. 8th.-The first important article of in. tracts P One has only to see the disorder of their terest to oriental studenta is a review of two works traditions, and the fantastic manner in which they by Prof. Th. Nöldeke. The first is a sketch of borrow from each other, without regard either to the Semitic languageal originally written for geographical vicinity, or to affinities of population, the Encyclopædia Britannica, and since then en- to be satisfied on this point. Theories might larged, and reproduced in German. The second is travel thus, but not customA. a history of the Arab dynasty of the Ghassanis.' (d) Oct. 31st.-Dr. Percy Gardner's Catalogue The article is by M. J. Halévy, and contains an of the Greek and Scythia Kings of Bactria interesting note on the primitive habitat of the and India in the British Museum is reviewed. Aram sans, which he places in the south of the The author of the notice is M. Darmesteter. He Syrian desert, bounded by the Hijaz, Najd, and observes, "there are few historical periods of more the maritime tracts of Babylonia. Both works fascinating interest than that of the four centuries are highly praised by the reviewer.
which followed the death of Alexander, in the (6) Aug. 15th. - M. A. Barth contributes & tracts of country bordering on Persia and on review of the present writer's and Dr. Hoornle's India. A Greek empire in Bactria, from the Oxus works in connection with the Bihårt language. to the Hinda Kosh, which soon crosses the moun.
(c) Oct. 24th. The same gentleman reviews tains, absorbs Eastern Afghanistan, passes the Prof. Jolly's Tagore Law Lectures on "an Indus, reaches the Yamung on the right, the Sea outline of a History of the Hindd law of Parti- of Gujarat on the south, covers the Indian coaste tion, Inheritance, and Adoption, as contained in with Greek temples, of which the ruins still existed the original Sanskrit treatises." The author, M. in the second century, and brings into India Barth considers, studies each institution histori. Greek writing, Greek art, and all that the spirit cally, bringing to light the differences concerning of a Hindd could receive of the Hellenic genius. it, which appear through a long series of texts, and An invasion of Turkish tribes, who cast upon he endeavours to explain these differences by the Greek frontier by the same movement as that referring them to a process of regular development. which step by step impelled Attila upon the gates The various discussions show his familiarity with of Rome, come to destroy the empire of Alexan. legal questions, and with comparative legislation, der's successors, whilst succeeding as their heirs, and no one could read the book without deriving to reopen the route of the Greeks in India, to great benefit from it. Dr. Jolly differs from enthrone Buddhism, and, at the same time as Bud. Mr. Nelson in considering the juridical litera- dha, all the pantheon of Iranian Zoroastrianism. ture of India as really its legislation. It is a Between the Greeks and the Soythians, are the more body of written custom, not only held holy, or less violent struggles of the Parthians, who send but universally practised and regularly applied to Western India sometimes governors for the by the public authorities. It has always kept in Arsacides, sometimes adventurers who founded touch with actual facts, modifying itself as they dynasties. For all this period, at once confused have become modified. M. Barth combats this and feound (for it is from this chaos that modern theory, considering that the smpiti has been only India has emerged) there remain but four kinds of moderately practised. The official law has often documents : a few lines, more or less vague, in been a very incomplete, and frequently an entirely the classical writers, a few pages in the Chinese false representation of the true custom. and annals, a few inscriptions of the Indo-Scythians, whenever there was a conflict between the two, it and thousands of coins. Numismatists have there
Die Semitischen Sprachen, Eine Skiane, von Th. Nöl- Die Chasadnischen Fürsten aus dem Haur Gafna's, oke, Leipzig, T. O. Weigel, 1887.
von Th. Nöldeke. Berlin, Librairie academique, 1887.
