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Neverthless, he continued to talk: "Your gracious Majesty, thirst is unmindful of an uncloan pool."
The King and his people were now lost in wonder and bade him continue : -"My Lord, sleep is unmindful of the mattressed bed."
The King was now so pleased that he cried out : "My man, your ingenious replies make you fit to be the chief man in the Kingdom."
Thus did the guard become Minister and wisely administered the State for many a day afterwards.
MISCELLANEA. INDIAN "HALF-HEADS."
half the face, one colour, and the other half 1. IN & version of the Legend of Gaga, occur another, may be compared. the following lines :
2. A somewhat similar custom exists in the Text.
Tochi Valley, Northern Waziristan, where some Bôle chele: - "Kappe ki jholi lengê khôs, jt of the Dauris, who are all Muhammadans, are Rosham jholi, aône kå banat bangde, jf." accustomed to shave one eye-brow, the moustache Adhi kayê jógt ne sône ki banadi, ji,
and half the beard, applying antimony above and Adht bajr ki banadi, ji.
below the eye, so as to completely disfigure
their faces. The Dauris also stain their faces, Translation,
especially the eye-brows or eye-lids, red and blue The disciples said (to Gôrakh-náth): "A wallet
to terrify their enemies. of cloth they will snatch from us, Let us wear a silken wallet, and deck our
3. In a photograph, taken at Thandsar, is the persons with gold."
figure of a faqir, half of whose face is painted The jogi (Gorakh-nath) changed half their
white. bodies into gold,
4. Other instances of similar half or partiAnd the other half into iron.
coloured decoration or disfigurement would be of
interest." With this idea it would appear that the
H. A. Rose. custom of painting half the body, or at least 1 4th December, 1905.
BOOK-NOTICE. L'ABT Gatco-BOUDDHIQUI DU GANDHIRA: Etude the fire-place; several of these being simply sur les Origines, de l'Influence olassique dans l'Art | marvels of artistic finish and taste. This is how
we treat such precious treasures of art belonging Par A. FOUCHER, Doot. és Lett. Tome premier:
to the first or second century of the Christian era. Introduotion- los Edifices - leg Barreliefs ; avec 300 illustrations, une planche et une oarto.
Attention was long since directed to the PARIS, 1905.
artistic and historical interest of these sculptures Do we take any really scientific interest in the and of the structures where they were found, but ancient and very remarkable sculptures found on it is the educated scientific mind that can rightly the north-west frontier of India, and how do we appreciate the use and value of such remaine, show.it P Beyond looking on them as curios,' Hence the German Government with its usual what have we done to promote their study instructed intelligence, through the medium of Great numbers of the larger fragments of them the Royal Maseums, in 1893, undertook the have been housed in the Labor and Calcutta publication of an illustrated handbook of Museums, and the mess-house of the Guides Buddhist Art in India,' prepared by Prof. Corps at Mardan possesses some half a dozen A. Grünwedel and based on the collection of statues nsed as wall decorations, and twenty-six these sculptures at Berlin, but dealing scientificbas-reliels, justly "reckoned among the chef- ally with the history and details of the art and d'autres of the Gandhåra school," are built into the mythology of the sculptures. Orientalists
Capt. Koen, Political Agent in the Tochi, describes the Daurt ornaments thus :- The Dauri men used to dye the right eye with black antimony and the left with red, colouring half their obeeks also in the same way. The met, not the women, also used to woar ooids sewn in the breast of their cloaks, as is commonly done by Ghilsni women."
For an instance in Africa, cf. the 'hall-heade,' Ewe-speaking Peoples, p. 168.
