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Volume 73 - July 1941

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The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus. By John F. Baddeley. 2 vols., pp. 272 and 328, xxii + xv, pl., iii maps, bibliography. Oxford: University Press, 1940. £6 6s.

Bahāristān-i-Ghaybī. By Mīrzā Nathan. Translated by DrM. I. Borah. Two vols., pp. xxix + 930. 8½ × 5½. Gauhati, Assam: Government of Assam, 1936. 10 or 15s.

The Wandering Lake. By Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by F. H. Lyon. 9 × 6, pp. x + 293, ills. 108, maps 10. London: G. Routledge, 1940. 18s.

A Korean Grammar. By G. J. Ramstedt. Mémoires de la Société Finno-ougrienne, LXXXII. 10 × 6½, pp. iv + 200. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1939.

Al-Iklil (al-juz' al-thāmin). Ed. by Nabih Amin Faris. (Princeton Oriental Texts, vii.) 9 × 6½, pp. 16 + 247. Princeton, 1940. $5.

Pre-Musulman India. Vol. II, Part 1, Vedic India. The Aryan Expansion over India. By V. Rangacharya. 9¾ × 7, pp. xv + 566. Madras: Indian Publishing House, 1937.

Apricot Cheeks and Almond Eyes. By G. Wimsatt. 8 × 5½, pp. xviii + 123, pls. 8. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. 12s. 6d.

Catalogue of the Palm Leaf Manuscripts in the Library of the Colombo Museum, Vol. I. By W. A. de Silva. Memoirs of the Colombo Museum, Series A, No. 4. 12 × 10½, pp. xxxiv + 412, pls. 6. Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1938. Rs. 10.

Not to me Only. By Caleb Frank Gates. 5½ × 8½, pp. 340. Princeton: University Press, Princeton, 1940. $3.

Proceedings of the Second Indian History Congress at Allahabad, 1938. 10 × 7½, pp. lx + 623 + 98. Allahabad, 1939.

A History of Malay Literature. By R. O. Winstedt. 9⅝ × 6⅛, pp. vii + 243. Malayan Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xvii, part iii, January, 1940. Singapore: Printers, Ltd., 1940. $3.50.

The Chosen Highway. By Lady Blomfield (Sitárih Khánum). 9 × 6, pp. x + 265, plates 3. London: The Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1940.

The Numismatic History of Rayy. By G. C. Miles. 1O¾ × 7½, pp. xii + 240, pls. 6. Numismatic Studies, No. 2. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1938.

Settlements in the Lower Indus Basin (Sind). By M. B. Pithawalla. 9½ × 6½, pp. 87 + 14. Karachi, 1939. Rs. 5. - Identification and Description of some Old Sites in Sind. By M. B. Pithawalla. Journal of Sind Historical Society, Vol. III, No. 4. 9½ × 6, pp. 28 + 8. Karachi, 1938. Rs. 2.

Inscriptions of Burma. University of Rangoon: Oriental Studies Publications. 18 × 14. No. 3. Portfolio II: Down to 630 b.e. (a.d. 1268), pls. 115. No. 4, Portfolio III, 630–662 b.e. (a.d. 1268–1300), pls. 121. London: Humphrey Milford, 1939. £5 5s. each.

Shah Abdul Latif of Bhit. By H. T. Sorley. Oxford Univesity Press. 8½ × 5½. pp. 432 + viii. 18s.

Die Yajus' des Aśvamedha. By Shrikrishna Bhawe. 9½ × 6¼, pp. x + 136. Bonner Orientalistische Studien Heft 25. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1939. RM. 10.

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social, and Geographical Survey of Ancient India based mainly on the Jātaka Stories. By Ratilal N. Mehta. 10 × 7, pp. xxvi + 461, fig. 1, map 1. Bombay: Examiner Press, 1939. Rs. 15.

Rozgar Nau. No. 1, Summer, 1941. Price 1s. or 20 cents. 8 × 5 inches, c/o Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York, and Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., London.

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