Just published: Forlong (Major-General) SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS, roy. 8vo. 3 maps and numerous illustrations, cloth, 28s 1897 "A volume of Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions, by Major-General J. G. R. Forlong, will shortly be issued by Mr. Bernard Quaritch. The author deals more especially with Asiatic creeds, and he advances various reasons against the popular belief that Aryans were, either in India or further eastward, the first or chief civilisers; attributing this honour to Dravido-Turanians and Mongolic peoples who entered India from the west and north, probably a thousand or more years before Aryans touched the Ganges. There is a great deal in this volume intended to prove that man's first cultus was arboreal, or, as it is now termed, a worship of divinities of vegetation, as spirits of groves, trees, and corn. Thus the author upholds the arguments and position he took up in a former work, some twenty years ago, that all early gods were but rural and tribal divinities embodying the sensuous wants and ideas of the needy and ignorant."-The Morning Post, July 8th, 1897. "General Forlong's Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religion are based on long personal acquaintance with Orientals in India and elsewhere, and are the work of one who is well known for his erudite researches, extending over many years. They give us a general view of all the more important religious systems of Asia, and they contain the most recent results of Oriental specialism. The first is concerned with the early Jaina Buddhism preceding Gautama, and with the spread of his teaching, especially westwards to Persia, and among the Daci near the Caspian, the philosophers of Syria, said by Aristotle to have come from India, and the Essenes and Therapeutæ among the Jews. This is specially interesting to those who are now concerned in tracing the influence of Buddhism on the monastic sects of Palestine and Egypt, and thus on Christianity. The second study is devoted to the eastward spread of Hindu and Buddhist influence in Indo-China, and to the migrations of the bold Malay sailors from India to Siam and Polynesia, to Madagascar, and even perhaps to Peru. The third treats of the history of Mazdeism and of the Zendavesta, and the fourth of the Vedas and Vedantic philosophy. In the fifth study, the semi-Buddhist system of Tao, taught by Laotze in Honan, is considered, and contrasted with the more practical teaching of Confucius. The writings of the latter wise teacher form the sixth subject; and perhaps no ancient teacher has inculcated wiser ideas as to human duty than are to be found in his works. Turning to Semitic religion. the author investigates the origin of Elohim worship, and its connection with the sacred trees of Hebrews and Canaanites, in his seventh article; while the eighth is concerned with the origin and meaning of the sacred name Jehovah, Jahveh, or Yahuah, and its diffusion, at least as early as the ninth century B.C., among the Syrians and Assyrians. The ninth article, on Sacred Books of the West,' is mainly concerned with the history of the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament, and of the hopeless corruption due to Origen's well-meant attempt to collate various manuscripts for a true text. The author is inclined to agree with those who set a high value on Septuagint variants, as compared with the Massoretic text, but points out that the originals of both Hebrew and Greek versions have probably been lost to us for ever. His critical views are in accord with those of the most recent German schools. The tenth study is a fair and interesting account of Mohammed and the Koran. The work closes with metrical synopses of the teaching (ethical and religious) of many philosophers, from the Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, and Persian down to the later Greeks and Jews. These are of much interest, and often of great moral beauty. The lesson which all agree in teaching is, that man's duty lies rather in practical work-in justice, mercy, and sympathy to others-than in speculation on the unknown, which all such philosophers agreed in thinking-like the author of the Book of Job-to be beyond human comprehension."-The Scotsman, June 3rd, 1897. Blanford (W. T.) ZOOLOGY AND GEOLOGY OF ABYSSINIA, 1867-1868, 8vo. folding plate, geological view and 8 coloured plates of BIRDS (pub. at 218), cloth, 78 6d 1870 Hitherto no Scientific work had been published on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia. The above will be welcome to Scientists and Sportsmen. Greg's Comparative Philology of the Old and New Worlds in relation to Archaic Speech, with copious Vocabularies, impl. 8vo. (pub. at £1. 11s 6d), cloth, 10s 1893 The comparative Vocabularies exhibit a marvellous amount of industry and intelligent research. All the learning of Prince Louis Lucian Bonaparte's Philological Library is represented by this One Volume. Collingridge, The DISCOVERY of AUSTRALIA, 1 vol. roy. 4to. numerous woodcuts and 12 large maps (published at 25s), cloth, 10s 6d Sydney, 1895 A wonderful compilation, comprising all the Documents, extracted from the Early Voyages, relating to Australasia. A boon to every lover of Voyages of Discovery and Adventure. A CATALOGUE OF RARE AND VALUABLE BOOKS OFFERED FOR SALE BY BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W. Africa: 1 THE African Trade the Support of the British Plantation Trade in America, sm. 4to., hf. morocco £ s. d. 1745 2 10 0 710 0 0.2 6 2 ANGAS (G. F.) 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"The usefulness of the book is further increased by the lists of weights and measures, civil and military grades, &c., which are prefixed to it."-A. H. SAYCE. The Academy, October 24th, 1896. "Not very long ago, in No. 1616, the Nation reviewed the Arabic-English portion of Socrates Spiro's dictionary of the spoken Arabic of Egypt. The English-Arabic volume of this important compilation goes to press during the present month, and, like the preceding part, will be issued from the printing office of El-Mokattam, the leading Arabic daily of Cairo. Its publication is rendered possible by liberal subscriptions, 300 2 16 0 1 4 0 Arabic-continued. made to supply the bureaux of the different Egyptian Ministries with copies of a book 51 VANDYKE (Edward) Kitāb Iktifā-u l-Kanū' bi-mā huwa matbu' min ajli Cairo, 1897 Practically the best and most useful of all Arabic-English dictionaries. 53 YAMAN, its early medieval History, by Najm Ad-din OMARAH Al-Hakami; also the abridged History of its Dynasties by Ibn Khaldoun, Arabic and English, with notes by H. C. KAY, 8vo. map, XXV, 358 pp. in English, and 144 of the Arabic Text (pub. at 17s 6d), cloth 1892 The famous Arabian poet and historian, Omarah, was beheaded at Cairo by order of Sultan Saladin, A D. 1173. Omarah has preserved for us the leading facts of Muhamedan History in his country down to his own time; he has preserved for us an exceedingly curious picture of Arab life and manners, as is only excelled by the tales of the Thousand and One Nights. 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