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Volume 25 - Issue 2 - June 1962

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Malcolm Guthrie Bantu sentence structure, [iii], 29 pp. [London]: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1961. 10s. (Agents: Luzac.)

Ivor Wilks The northern factor in Ashanti history. Cover-title, 46 pp., plate. [Legon]: Institute of African Studies, University College of Ghana, 1961. 5s.

Lloyd Cabot Briggs Tribes of the Sahara, xxi, 295 pp., front., 16 plates. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1960. 32s. U.

Godfrey Lienhardt: Divinity and experience: the religion of the Dinka. x, 328 pp., front., 6 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. 42s.

History of Religions : an International Journal for Comparative Historical Studies. Vol. 1, No. 1. [ii], 188 pp. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1961. $5 per annum.

Berthe Van Regemorter:Some oriental bindings in the Chester Beatty Library. 29 pp., front., 70 plates. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd., 1961. £10 10s

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Francis J. Carmody: The astronomical works of Thābit b. Qurra. 262 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960. (English agents: Cambridge University Press. 48s.)

J. Wellhausen: Reste arabischen Heidentums: gesammelt und erläutert. Dritte unveränderte Auflage. x, 250 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1961. DM. 24.

Vincent Monteil: Anthologie bilingve de la littérature arabe contemporaine. xliii, 267 pp. Beyrouth (Liban): Imprimerie Catholique, [1961]. (Obtainable from Librairie Orientale, Beirut.)

‘AbdullĀh Al-Ṭaiyib: Muḥāḍarāt fi ’l-ittijāhāt al-ḥadīthah fi ’l-nathr al-‘arabi fi ’l-Sūdān. (Jaāmi'‘at al- Duwal al-‘Arabīyah. Ma'had al- Dirāsāt al-‘Arabīyat al-‘Ālīyah.) [iv], 80 pp. Cario: Maṭba‘ah Nahḍah, 1959.

J. Aquilina: Maltese meteorological and agricultural proverbs. 80 pp. [Valletta]: Malta University Press, 1961. (Agents: Luzac. 14s.)

Arnold J. Toynbee: A study of history. Vol. XII. Reconsiderations. x, 740 pp. London, etc.: Oxford University Press for theRoyal Institute of International Affairs, 1961. 45s.

Ann K. S. Lambton: Persian vocabulary. Reprinted, xii, 394 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1961. 22s.6d.

A. J. Arberry (ed.): The Chester Beatty Library: a catalogue of the Persian manuscripts and miniatures. Vol. II. MSS. 151-220. By M. Minovi, B. W. Robinson, the late J. V. S. Wilkinson, and the late E. Blochet. xiv, 89 pp., front., 43 plates. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd., 1960. £9 9s.

J. Gonda: Epithets in the Rgveda. (Disputationes Rheno-Trajectinae, iv.) 270 pp. 's-Gravenhage:Mouton & Co.,1959. Guilders 28.

Alexandre Bennigsen and Chantal Quelquejay: The evolution of the Muslim nationalities of the USSR and their linguistic problems. Translated from the Frenchby Geoffrey Wheeler. [vii], 57 pp. [London: Central Asian Research Centre], 1961. 12s. 6d.

J. Gonda: Four studies in the language of the Veda. (Disputationes Rheno- Trajectinae, in.) 194 pp. 's-Gravenhage: Mouton & Co., 1959. Guilders 20.

R. N. Dandekar: Vedic bibliography. Second volume, xxiii, 760 pp. [Poona]: University of Poona, 1961. Rs. 30,45s.

Rasiklāal C. Parīkh (ed.): Kāvyaprakāśa of Mammata with the saṁketa named Kāvyādarśa of Someśvara Bhatta. (Rājasthāna Purātana Granthamālā, No. 46, 47.) 2 vols.: [viii], 4, 352 pp.; [viii], 8, 110, 94 pp., 2 plates. Jodhpur: Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, 1959.

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