Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volume 60 - Issue 1

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Volume 60 - Issue 1 - January 1928

Notices of Books

Über die Semitischen und night indischen Grunplagen der Malaiisch-Polynesischen Kultur. VonE. E. W. Gs. Schroder. Buch. I. Der Ursprung des ältesten Elementes der austronesischen Alphabete. 11¼ × 9, pp. 88. Medan: Köhler & Co., 1927.

A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages. By Sidney Herbert Ray. 9¼ × 6¼, pp. xvi + 598, 6 maps. Cambridge: University Press (for the University of Melbourne in association with the Melbourne University Press), 1926.

Notes sur des Amulettes Siamoises. By M. Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis. 7½ × 5½. Annales du Musée Guimet. Bibl. de Vulgarization, T. 45. Paris, 1926.

A History of Siam. By W. A. R. Wood. 9 × 6. London, n.d.

An Asian Arcady. By Reginald le May. 10 × 6½. Cambridge, 1926.

My Journey to Lhasa. By Alexandra David-Neel. Demy 8vo. Illustrated with many photographs taken by the author. London: William Heinemann, 1927.

English-Türki Dictionary, Based on the Dialects of Kashgar and Yarkand. By G. Raquette. 10 × 7, ii + 139 pp. C. W. K. Gleerup, Lund, and O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig. 1927.

Tscheremissische Texte (Vol. I, Text; Vol. II, Übersetzung). By Ernst Lewy. 64 and 74 pp., 3 plates. Heinz Lafaire, Hanover. 1926.

Les Barbares: Des grandes invasions aux Conquêtes Turques du XIe Siécle. By Louis Halphen. 9 × 5½, 390 pp. Librairie Félix Alcan. Paris. 1926.

Oskar von Nledermayer. Afghanistan. Mit 246 Abbildungen in Kupfertiefdruck und 9 skizzen. Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1924. Sm. folio, xvi, 70, 246. £4.

An Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto. By DrGeorg Morgenstierne. viii, 120 pp. Oslo, 1927.

The Bhakta-Māla of Nābhā-jī, with the Ṭīkā of Priyā-dāsa, and with a commentary entitled the Bhakti-Sudhā-Svādu of ŚrīŚītārāma-śaraṇa Bhagawān Prasād (Rūp-kalā). pp. 996. Nawal Kishor Press, Lucknow, 1926. Rs. 3–12.

Journal of Francis Buchanan (afterwards Hamilton). Kept during the Survey of the Districts of Patna and Gaya in 1811–1812. Edited with Notes and Introduction by V. H. Jackson M.A., 10 × 6½, pp. xxxix + 250, with 4 plans, 2 plates, and map. Patna: Government, B. and O., Press, 1925.

A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy. Being a Systematic Introduction to Indian Metaphysics. By R. D. Ranade M.A., Director Academy of Philosophy and Religion, formerly Professor of Philosophy, Fergusson College, Poona. 10 × 7, pp. 438. Oriental Book Agency, Poona, 1926. Rs. 10.

Buddhism and its Place in the Mental Life of Mankind. By DrPaul Dahlke. London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. - Essays in Zen Buddhism. By Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. (First Series.) London: Luzac and Co., 1927.

Rulers of the Indian Ocean. By Admiral G. A. Ballard C.B., Duckworth, 21s. net.

West-Indonesien. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Von Professor Dr. Augustin Krämer. 12 × 9, pp. 104 (including xlv illustration plates and 2 maps). Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung [1927]. 16.50 marks.

Die Sonne und Mithra im Awesta. Auf Grund der awestischen Feuerlehre dargestellt von Johannes Hertel. (Indo-Iranische Quellen und Forschungen, Heft IX.) 8½ × 5½. xxviii + 318 pp. Leipzig: Haessel, 1927.

Die Yäšt's des Awesta. By Herman Lommel. pp. xii + 211, large 8vo. Ubersetzt und eingeleitet von Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1927.

Paul Kahle. Die Masoreten des Westems. [Texte und Untersuchungen zur Vormasoretischen Grammatik des Hebräischen I.] 8vo, xii, 89 66, . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1927. 14s.