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Volume 68 - April 1936

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Confucianism and Modern China. The Lewis Fry Memorial Lectures, 1933–4, delivered at Bristol University by Reginald F. Johnston. 7¾ × 5, pp. 272, ills. 7. London: Victor Gollancz, 1934. 8 s. 6 d.

The Secret of Ana 'l-Ḥaqq. Second edition. By Khaja Khān. 7 × 5, pp. xxxiv + 238, chart 1. Madras: Hogarth Press, 1935.

Vijayanagara: Origin of the City and the Empire. By N. Venkata Ramanayya. Bulletins of the Department of Indian History and Archæology, No. 4. 9½ × 6½, pp. iv + 191, maps 2. Madras: Madras University, 1933. 3s.

Das Hebräische Epos. By D. Arvid Bruno. Eine Rhythmische und Textkritische Untersuchung der Bücher Samuelis und Könige. 9¼ × 6. pp. 257 + 164, plan 1. Uppsala: Almquist and Wiksell's Boktryceri, 1935.

Siegel u. Charaktere in der Muhammedanischen Zauberei. By DrH. A. Winkler. 10 × 6½, pp. 187. Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1930.

The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with other Scripts. By G. E. Hunter. With an introduction by Professor S. Langdon (Studies in the History of Culture, No. 1). 10 × 6½: pp. xii + 210: pls. 37. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1934. 21s.

A Creed of the Fatimids. A summary of the Tāju'l-‘aqā’-id, by Sayyid-na 'Ali b. Muhammad b. al-Walid, ob. 612/1215. By W. Ivanow. 7¼ × 5, pp. viii + 82. Bombay: Qayyimah Press, 1936.

The Mongols of Manchuria. By Owen Lattimore. 8 × 5½, pp. 312 and 3 maps. London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1934.

A History of Perak. By R. O. Winstedt, R. J. Wilkinson. 9½ × 6¼, pp. iv + 180, pls. xiv. [ = Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xii, part i.] Singapore: Malayan Branch, R.A.S., 1934.

Manichäische Homilien. Von H. J. Polotsky, mit einem Beitrag von H. Ibscher. Manichäische Handschriften der Sammlung A. Chester Beatty, Bd. I. 12 × 8½, pp. xix + 96 + 22, pl. 1. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1934. RM. 27.

Die Arbeiterwanderungen in Südostasien. Von DrKarl Joseph Pelzer. 8¾ × 5¾, pp. vi + 126, maps 3 (in the text). Hamburg: Friederichsen, de Gruyter & Co., 1935.

Samsoun: Passé—Présent—Avenir. ParR. Vadala. 10 × 6½, pp. i–vii + 1–134, pls. 8. P. Geuthner, Paris, 1934. (Pays et Cités d'Orient II.)

Hayagriva, The Mantravanic aspect of Horse-cult in China and Japan. By DrR. H. Van Gulik. Supplement to vol. xxxiii of Internationales Archiv für Ethnographic 13¼ × 10¼, pp. 105, ills. 14. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1935. Gld. 7·50.

Les Hammâms du Caire. By Edmond Pauty. (Mémoires des Membres de I'Institut Français d'Archéologieorientale, T. LXIV.) 14¼ × 11, pp. viii + 62> pls. 12, figs. 22. Le Caire: Imprimerie de l'Institut, 1933.

The Development of Sumerian Art. By C. Leonard Woolley. 11 × 7¾, pp. 140, pls. 72, in colour 1. London: Faber and Faber, 1935. 30s.

Indian Influences in Old-Balinese Art. By DrWilhelm F. Stutterheim. 10 × 7¼, pp. xiii + 41, pls. xxiii, map 1. London: The India Society, 1935. 15s.

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