Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volume 68 - Issue 2

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Volume 68 - Issue 2 - April 1936

Reviews of Books

Elements of Astrology. By Abu'l-Rayhan Al-biruni The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology. Reproduced from Brit. Mus. MS. Or. 8349. With a translation by R. Ramsay Wright. 8¾ × 6, pp. xviii + 333. London: Luzac and Co., 1934. 42s. net.

An Introduction to the Books of the Old Testament. By W. O. E. Oesterley and Theodore H. Robinson. 9 × 5½ in., pp. xvi + 454. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: 1934. 10s. 6d.

The First Century of British Justice in India. By SirCharles Fawcett. 8¼ × 6, pp. xx + 269, maps 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. 15s.

Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. NO. 48. Explorations in Sind. Being a report of the exploratory survey carried out during the years 1927–8, 1929–1930, and 1930–1. By N. C. Majumdar. 13 × 10, pp. xii + 174, pls. 46, map 1. Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1934. 27s. 6d.

The Basic Conception of Buddhism. By Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya. Adharchandra Mookerjee Lectures, 1932. 9 × 5½, pp. x + 103. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1934.

Die Lehre der Jainas nach den alten Quellen dargestellt. Von W. Schubring. Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde. Band iii, Heft 7. 10 × 7, pp. 252. Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter and Co., 1935.

Bildwerk und Volkstum Vorderasiens zur Hethiterzeit. By A. Moortgat. Sendschrift der Deutschen Orient Gesellschaft, 8. 9 × 6, pp. 42, pls. 37. Leipzig: J. C. Heinrichs, 1934.

Un Ami de Stendhal, Victor Jacquemont. By Pierre Mays. 8 × 5, pp. xii + 642, ills. 8, map 1. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer et Cie.

Darius the Mede and the Four World Empires in the Book of Daniel. By H. H. Rowley. A Historical Study of Contemporary Theories. 8¾ × 6, pp. xxxiv + 195. Cardiff: University of Wales Press Board, 1935. 12s. 6d.

Libyan Sands: Travel in a Dead World. By Ralph A. Bagnold. 9 × 6, pp. 351, maps 4, ills. 36. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. 15s.

Byzantine Art. By D. Talbot Rice. 8½ × 6, pp. xiii + 255, pls. 48, maps 4. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. 12s. 6d.

Eranos Jahrbuch, 1933–4. Herausgegeben von Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn. 8½ × 6. Zürich: Rhein-Verlag, 1933, 1934.

The Third English Embassy to Poona, comprising Mostyn's Diary (September, 1772–February, 1774) and Mostyn's Letters (February–November, 1774). Edited by J. H. Gense and D. R. Banaji. 7½ × 5, pp. xv + 424. Bombay: Taraporevala and Sons, 1934. Rs. 10.

Inscriptions from Alishar and Vicinity. By Ignace J. Gelb. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications, vol. xxvii. Researches in Anatolia, vol. vi. 12 × 9½, pp. xv + 84, pls. lxii, figs. 5. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. London: Cambridge University Press, 1935. £1 7s.

The Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Development of Persian Poetry. By 'Umar Muḥammad Dāūdpotā. 10 × 7, pp. xv + 202. Bombay: The Fort Printing Press, 1934. 9s.

State Letters of Assyria. By Robert H. Pfeiffer. American Oriental Series, vol. vi. 10¼ × 7, pp. xii + 265. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriental Society, 1935.

Le Musée de Soueïda: Inscriptions et monuments figurés. Mission archéologique au Djebel Druze. By Maurice Dunand. Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique, tome xx. 11 × 9, pp. 117, pls. 36. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1934.

A History of the Levant Company. By Alfred C. Wood. 9 × 5½, pp. xviii + 263. London: Oxford University Press, 1935. 12s. 6d.

The Labyrinth. Further Studies in the relation between Myth and Ritual in the Ancient World. Edited by S. H. Hooke. 9 × 5¾, pp. xiv + 288, ills. 44. London: S.P.C.K., 1935. 12s. 6d.