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Volume 41 - Issue 3 - October 1978

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R. M. W. Dixon: A grammar of Yidin. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 19.) xxiii, 563 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £24.

Theodora Bynon: Historical linguistics. (Cambridge Textbooks ir. Linguistics.) x, 301 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1977. £12.50.

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Erkki Salonen: Neubabylonische Urkunden verschiedenen Inhalts. ii. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tom. 199.) 134 pp. Helsinki: [Academia Scientiarum Fennica], 1976. Fmk. 65.

Frank Moore Cross and Shemaryahu Talmon (ed.): Qumran and the history of the Biblical text. [ix], 415 pp. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1975. $16.50, £11.25; $5.95, £4.10 (paper).

Mehdi Mohaghegh and Toshihiko Izutsu (tr.): The Metaphysics of Sabzavārī. (Wisdom of Persia Series. Texts and Studies published by Tehran Branch, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, x.) x, 235 pp. Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1977.

Ṭāhā Ḥusain: A passage to France: the third volume of the autobiography. Translated from the Arabic by Kenneth Cragg. (Arabic Translation Series of the Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 4.) xv, 165 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Guilders 18.

Sasson Somekh (ed.): The world of Yusuf Idris: an anthology of short stories. 205 pp. Tel-Aviv: [Arabic Publishing House], 1976. [In Arabic.]

J. D. Pearson (comp.): Index Islamicus: fourth supplement, 1971–1975. xlii, 429 pp. London: Mansell, [1977]. £20.

Julius Assfalg and Paul Krüger (ed.): Kleines Wörterbuch des Christlichen Orients. xxxiii, 460 pp., 16 plates, 6 maps. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1975. DM 64.

Sheldon Ivan Pollock: Aspects of versification in Sanskrit lyric poetry. (American Oriental Series, Vol. 61.) x, 335 pp. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1977. $11.

Bruno Dagens (ed. and tr.): Mayamata: traité Sanskrit d'architecture. Deuxième partie. (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Indologie, No. 40, 2.) xix, 595 pp. Pondichéry: Institut Français d'Indologie, 1976.

Fei-ling Davis: Primitive revolutionaries of China: a study of secret societies of the late nineteenth century. vii, 254 pp. London and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. £4.95.

Frits Vos: Die Religionen Koreas. (Die Religionen der Menschheit, Bd. 22,1.) 264 pp. Stuttgart, etc.: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1977. DM 64.

E. Patricia Tsurumi: Japanese colonial education in Taiwan, 1895–1945. (Harvard East Asian Series, 88.) xiii, 334 pp. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1977. $20, £14.

Alfons Weidert: Tai Khamti phonology and vocabulary. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung. Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 27.) vii, 92 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1977. DM 18.

Muhammad Haji Salleh: Tradition and change in contemporary Malay-Indonesian poetry. ix, 190 pp. Kuala Lumpur: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1977. M$ 15.

Jerome O. Ojo: Yoruba customs from Ondo. (Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica, Nr. 37. Series Africana, 10.) 120 pp. Wien: [Institut für Völker-kunde der Universitat Wien], 1976.

Bernth Lindfors (ed.): Forms of folklore in Africa: narrative, poetic, gnomic, dramatic. viii, 281 pp. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, [1977]. $15, £9.

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