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as mental vigor and sanity, the confidence of the masses in the supporters of the title gradually disappeared. Their yearning for a regalated conduct and policy of Church and State beget in their minds the image of the Mahadi, in whom we note a reflex of the Jewish Messiah with slight modifications. A man, it was hoped, at the end of time would arise from among the progeny of Muhammad to strengthen religion, restore justice, to put himself at the head of the faithful and to extend his empire over all Musalman lands. This singular expectation is still alive in the hearts of the bulk of the followers of the creed. Nor is it quenched by the appearance of pseudo-Mahadis and impostors. It was not quite a score of years ago that the world witnessed the spectacle of vast masses of people imposed upon by a benighted fanatic.
Politically, Islam at present commands neither moral force nor physical resources, and is in the process of slow disintegration. Such circumstances, perhaps, point to the conclusion that the day is not at all too far off when the edifice of Islam will collapse at the impact of the culture of Christian Europe.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN HINDI, INCLUDING HINDOSTÂN.
BY G. A. GRIERSON, C.I.E., PH.D., D.LITT., L.C..
(Concluded from p. 179.)
ADDENDA,
SECTION I. Morisy, John, - Inquiry into the Existence of a pure Passive Voice in Hindustani. Proceedings of
the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. VIII., Pt. ii. (1862), pp. 197 and ff. , , On Hindustani Syntax. 16., Vol. IX., Pt. iii. (1866), pp. 263 and ff. Growse, F. 8., - Common Hindustani. Bengal Magazine, Vol. II. (1874), p. 239-245. (Advo
cates Hindi as against Urdu, as the language of the courts and of
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and ff. (On the value of the Urdû language, compared with that of
Hindi.) Muhammad ugain (Azad), - 26-e Hayat. Another edition (? 3rd), Lahore, 1899. Altaf Husain (ali), - She'r o shairi (Poetry and Poesy). [This is the long introduction
(pp. 228) to the Diwan-e alt, but is quite independent of that work.
It constitutes a modern Urdü Ars Poetica.] Cawnpore, 1893. Bréal, Augusto, - Les Mots anglais dans les Journava hindoustanis. Mémoire de la Société de
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48 Ibn Khaldun, I. 161. " Ibn Khaldun, I. 260 sq. Son Darmesteter's Monograph on Le Mahdi, depuis les origine de l'lolam junque'a nos Jours. -T..]
1 There are entries which were omitted from the main list. I have taken the opportunity of giving lints (no far as I could) of the works of the four acknowledged masters of modern Urdu, Azad, HAII, Sarabár, and Sharer. For many of the entries I am indebted to Captain R. St. John, M.A., Tonoher of Lindvetävi, and Mr. J. F. Blumhardt, M.A., Teacher of Bengali, at the University of Oxford.
