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Volume 69 - Issue 2 - April 1937

Reviews of Books

The Ḥarēm. By N. M. Penzer. An account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to the present day. 9½ × 7. pp. 277; ills. 43. London: G. G. Harrap, 1936. £1 1s.

The Brāhūī Language. Part II. The Brahūī Problem; Part III. Etymological Vocabulary. By SirDenys Bray. 9½ × 6, pp. ii + 313. Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1934. 13s. 6d.

Buddhist Cave Temples of India. By MajorR. S. Wauchope. 10 × 7½, pp. ix + 121, pls. 50, map 1. Calcutta: Edinburgh Press. London: Luzac and Co., 1935. 12s. 6d.

A Short History of India. By W. H. Moreland and SirAtul Chatterjee. 8½ × 5¼. pp. x + 496, maps 8. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. 12s. 6d.

Buddhist Meditation in the Southern School: Theory and Practice for Westerners. By G. Constant Lounsbery. With a foreword by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. 7½ × 5, pp. xviii + 163. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1935. 6s. net.

La méditation bouddhique. Étude de sa théorie, et de sa pratique selon l'École du Sud. Same author. 7½ × 5, pp. 180. Paris: Adrian-Maiṡonneuve, 1935. 20 frs.

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der niederlandischen Expeditionen in den Karakorum und die Angrenzenden Gebiete in den Jahren 1922, 1925, und 1929/30. Herausgegeben von Dr. Ph. C. Visser und Jenny Visser-Hooft. 11 × 7. Vol. i, pp. xviii + 499. In Kommission bei F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1935.

The Ǧheraṇda Saṁhitā. A Treatise on Haṭha Yoga. Trans, by Śrīś Chandra Vasu. T.P.H. Oriental Series. 7½ × 5, pp. xviii + 132. Adyar, Madras: Philosophical Publishing House, 1933.

Ḍholā-Mārūrā Dūhā: A Ballad from Rājputānā. Edited by Rām Sĩh, Sūraj Karaṇ, and Narottam Dās. 8¼ × 5¼. pp. 15 + 877. Benares: Nāgarĩ Pracāriṇī Sabhā, 1934. Rs. 4.

The Geetā: The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna By Shri Purohit Swāmi. 10¼ × 6½ pp. 110; pl. 1. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1935.

An Introduction to Colloquial Bengali. By W. Sutton Page. Forlong Fund. Vol. xiii. 9½ × 6. pp. xi + 195. Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1934. 10s. 6d.

Le Temple de Dendara. By E. Chassinat. 14 × 10. Tome 1er, pp. vii + 173; pls. i–lxxxvi. Tome 2me, pp. 244; pls. lxxxvii–clxvii. Cairo: Institut français d'archélogie orientale, 1934.

Fouilles de Tépé-Giyan, Près de Néhavend, 1931 et 1932. Par G. Contenau et R. Ghirshman. Musée du Louvre—Département des Antiquités Orientales. Série Archéologique, Tome III. 13 × 10. pp. vi + 144; pls. 85. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1935. Frs.150.

The Bible: An American Translation. J. M. Powis Smith, Editor of the Old Testament; Edgar J. Godspeed, Translator of the New Testament. Popular edition. 8 × 5, pp. 883 + 247. U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press; Great Britain and Ireland: Cambridge University Press, 1935.

Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature. By Jacob Mann. Volume II. Ḳaraitica. 9¼ × 6½. pp. xxiii + 1600; facsimiles 4. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1935. $5.

Marriage Conditions in a Palestinian Village. Vol. II. By Hilma Granquist, Ph.D. Societas Scientiarum Fennica. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, vi, 8. 9½ × 6½, pp. 366, ills. 30. Helsingfors: Akademische Buchhandlung, 1935. Leipzig: Otto Harrasowitz. Fmk. 160.

Le Poème babylonien de la Création. (Enuma eliš.) By René Labat. 10 × 6½, pp. 177. Paris: Adrien Maisonneuve, 1935. Fr. 45.

Korán: První Úplný Překlad z Arabštiny Pořídil. DrA. R. Nykl. 8¾ × 5½, pp. xxxi + 360. Prague: Maràč v Praze, 1934.

Nuzhat al-‘Umr fi’t-Tafḍīl bain al-Baiḍ Wa's-Sūd Wa's-Sumr. By Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī. 9 × 6¼, 16 pp. Damascus: Taraqqī Press, 1349.

Orientalistische Studien Enno Littmann zu Seinem 60. Greburtstag am 16. September, 1935, überreicht von Schülern aus seiner Bonner und Tübinger Zeit. Herausgegeben von R. Paret. 10 × 6. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1935.

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