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Volume 17 - February 1955

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Omar A. Faeeukh: Abu Firas: a Knight and Romantic Poet. 152 pp. In Arabic. Beirut, 1954. Agents in London: Luzac, 6s. 6d.

Yang Lien-Sheng Selected Chinese Texts in the Classical and Colloquial Styles. xviii, 192 pp. Harvard University Press, for Harvard-Yenching Institute. (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege), 1953, 24s.

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Hans H. Frankel (tr.): Biographies of Meng Hao-jan. (Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California: Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 1.) vi, 25 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1952, 50c, 4s.

A. J. Arberry(ed.): Persian Poems, an Anthology of Verse Translations. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.New York: E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc. 1954, 6s.

Richard Winstedt: A Practical Modern Malay-English Dictionary.225 pp. Singapore: Kelly and Walsh, 1952, Mal. 7.50, postage 75c.

John Norman Hollister: The Shī'a of India. 440 pp. London: Luzac and Co., Ltd., 1953, £ 3s.

Sabatino Moscati: Oriente in nuova luce (Biblioteca Enciclopedica Sansoniana XXIII). 172 pp. Firenze: G. C. Sansoni, 1954, 600 lira.

Au Chhieng: Catalogue du fonds khmer. (Bibliotheque Nationale. Département des manuscrits.) xiii, 307 pp. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1953.

Isidobe Dyen: The Proto-Malayo- Polynesian Laryngeals. viii, 65 pp. Baltimore: Linguistic Socy. of America, 1953.

George C. Miles: Coins of the Muluk al-Tawa'if. (Hispanic Numismatic Series, Monograph No. in.) xi, 169 pp., xv plates. New York: American Numismatic Socy., 1954,$;4.50.

Uriel Heyd: Language Reform in Modern Turkey. (Oriental Notes and Studies No. 5.) 116 pp. Jerusalem: Israel Oriental Society, 1954, $1.50.

J. F. Holleman: Shona Customary Law. xix, 401 pp. London: Cumberlege, 1952, 42s. (South Africa).

J. V. Murra E. M. Hankin, F. Holling (tr.): The Soviet Linguistic Controversy.98 pp. New York: King's Crown Press, 1951.

A. L. Basham: The Wonder that was India, xxii, 568 pp., LXXXIX plates, xxi drawings and maps. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954,45s.

K.C. Chakaravarthi:Ancient Indian Culture and Civilization.342, xxvi, 4 pp. Bombay:Vora and Co. (Agent in London: Arthur Probsthain), 1952, 16s.

Otto Spies: Orientalische Stoffe in den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm (Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte des Orients Bd. 6). 47 pp. Walldorf-Hessen: Verlag für Orientkunde, 1952.

B. P. Sinha:The Decline of the Kingdom of Magadha. With a foreword by Dr. L. D. Barnett. xxvii, 481 pp.; 6 plates. Patna: Motilal Banarsidass, 1954, Rs. 20.

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