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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
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Volume 66 - Issue 4 - October 1934

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The Structural Principles of the Chinese Language. An introduction to the spoken language (Northern Pekingese dialect). By Jos Mullie. Translated from the Flemish by A. Omer Versichel. Vol. I. 10 × 7, pp. xxxiii + 566. Peiping: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1932. £1 12s. 6d.

Les Origines des Légendes Musulmanes dans le Coran et dans les Vies des Prophètes. By D. Sidersky. 10 × 6½, pp. viii + 162. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1933. Frs. 100.

On Ancient Central Asian Tracks. By SirAurel Stein. 9½ × 6½, pp. xxiv + 342, ills. 148 (18 in colour), map 1. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. 31s. 6d.

The New Conquest of Central Asia. A narrative of the Explorations of the Central Asiatic Expeditions in Mongolia and China, 1921–1930. By Roy Chapman Andrews and others. 11 × 8¼, pp. 1 + 678, pls. 128, ills, in text 12, maps 3. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1932. £3 3s.

Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques. Publiés par l'Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises. Vol. I, 1931–1932. 10 × 6½, pp. ii + 425, ills. 33. Brussels: Istas. London: Luzac, 1932.

Inni Dell' Atharvaveda. Traduzione Introduzione e Note di Valentino Papesso. Testi e documenti per la Storia delle Religioni, 5. 7½ × 5, pp. xvi + 205. Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1933. L. 12.

Fouilles exécutées à Baouît. Par Jean Maspero. Notes mises en ordre et éditées par Étienne Drioton. Premier fascicule. Cairo, 1932.

Dialects of Tibet; the Tibetan Dialect of Lahul (Tibetica, I). By Georges de Roerich. 10 × 7, pp. i + 107. New York and Naggar, Kulu, Punjab: Urusvati Himalayan Research Institute of the Roerich Museum, n.d., 1933. $1, or Rs. 5.

A History of Indian Philosophy. By Surendranath Dasgupta. 9 × 6½, pp. xii + 620. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1932. 35s.

The Oriental Institute. Being the Twelfth Volume of the University of Chicago Survey. By J. H. Breasted. 7½ × 5¼, pp. xxiv + 456, pls. 2, ills. 207, map 1. Chicago: University Press, 1933. 22s.

Ibn al-Arif, Mahasin al-Majalis. Texte arabe. Traduction et Commentaire par Miguel Asin Palacios. (Collection de textes inédits relatifs à la Mystique Musulmane, Tome II.) 10 × 7, pp. 106. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1933. Frs. 60.

Catalogue Général du Musée Arabe du Caire. Objets en Cuivre. Par M. Gaston Wiet, Directeur du Musée Arabe. 14 × 10, pp. viii + 315, pls. 76. Cairo, 1932.

L'Empire Égyptien sous Ismail et l'Ingérence Anglo-Française (1863–1879). Par M. Sabry. Épisode de la question d'Afrique. 10 × 7, pp. 570, maps 4. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1933. Frs. 75.

Ṛgveda-Saṃhitā, Part I. Indian Research Institute Publications: Vedic Series. 10 × 7½, pp. xx + 102 + ii + 22. Calcutta: Indian Research Institute, 1933. 2s. 6d.

Südarabien als Wirtschaftsgebiet. By Adolf Grohmann. (Schriften d. Deutschen Universität in Prag, Teil I, Band 7.) Two volumes. Vol. I: 9 × 6; pp. xxi + 272, pls. 18. Vol. II: 9¾ × 6½; pp. viii + 267. Vienna, Leipzig: R. M. Rohrer, 1930, 1933.

Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā an-Naubaḫti: Die Sekten der Schi'a herausg. vonHellmut Ritter. 8vo, pp. xxx + 114. Istanbul: Staatsdruckerei, 1931.

The Book of Delight. By J. Ben Meir Zabara. Translated by Moses Hadras, with introduction by Merriam Sherwood. 9 × 6, pp. xii + 204. London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1932. 22s.

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