VEDISM.

Rig-Veda Sanhita: the Sacred Hymns of the

Brahmans. Translated and Explained by F. MAX MÜLLER, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of All Souls' College; Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford: Foreign Member of the Institute of France, etc., etc. Vol. I. HYMNS TO THE MARUTS, OR THE STORM-GODS. 8vo. pp. clii, and 264, cloth. 128. 6d.

Rig-Veda Sanhita.

A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns translated from the Original Sanskrit. By the late H. H. WILSON, M.A., F.R.S., etc., late Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford, Vols. I. to IV. 8vo. cloth. £3 178. [Vol. V. in the Press.

Original Sanskrit Texts, Illustrative of the Hindus,

their Religion and Institutions. Collected, Translated, and Elucidated by J. MUIR. Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., Ph.D, Vols. I. III. IV. Second Edition. Rewritten and greatly enlarged. 8vo. cloth. £2 128. Vols. II. and V. in the Press.

The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rig-Veda: con

taining the Earliest Speculations of the Brahmans on the meaning of the Sacrificial Prayers, and on the Origin, Performance. and Sense of the Rites of the Vedic Religion. Edited, Translated, and Explained by MARTIN HAUG, Ph.D., Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies in the Poona College, etc., etc. In 2 vols. crown 8vo. Vol. I. Contents: Sanskrit Text, with Preface, Introductory Essay, and a Map of the Sacrificial Compound at the Soma Sacrifice. Pp. 312 Vol. II. Translation with Notes. Pp. 544. 1863. £2 2s.

The Sâma-Vidhâna-Brâhmana, with the Commentary of Sayana. Edited, with Notes, Translation, and Index. By A. C. BURNELL, M.R.A.S., Madras Civil Service. [In 1 Vol., 4to. in preparation.

HINDUISM.

Buddha & His Doctrines. A Biographical Essay. By OTTO KISTNER. Imperial 8vo. pp. iv. and 32, sewed. 28. 6d. Handbook for the Student of Chinese Buddhism. By the Rev. E. J. EITEL, of the London Missionary Society. 8vo. [In the prem

Outline of Buddhism, from Chinese Sources. By

S. BEAL, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; a Chaplain in Her Majesty's Fleet, etc.

CONTENTS.1. Legendary Period. 2. Buddhism as a Religious System. 3. Early Scholastic Period. 4. Mystical Period. 5. Decline and Fall. [In preparation.

In One Volume, crown 8vo,

The Modern Buddhist; being the views of a

Siamese Minister of State on his own and other Religions. Translated with remarks by HENRY ALABASTER, Interpreter of H. B. M Consulate-General in Siam. In one volume. [In the prem

The Chinese Classics.

CONFUCIANISM AND TAUISM. With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical, Notes, Prolegomena, and copious Indexes. By JAMES LEGGE, D.D., of the London Missionary Society. In 7 Vols. Vol. 1, containing Confucian analects, the great learning, and the doctrine of the mean. Svo. cloth, pp. 526. 1861. £2 28.

Vol. 2, containing the works of Mencius. 8vo. cloth, pp. 634. 1961. £2 28,

Vol. 3, Part 1, containing the first parts of the Shoo-King, or the Books of T'ang; the Books of Yu; the Books of Hea; the Books of 3hang; and the Prolegomena. 8vo. cloth, pp. 291. 1865. £29. Vol. 3, Part 2, containing the fifth part of the Shoo-King, or the Books of Chow, and the Indexes. 8vo. cloth, pp. 453. 1865. £22.

the Hindus, by the late H. H. WILSON, M.A., F.R.S., etc. Collected and Edited by Dr. REINHOLD ROST. 2 vols. 8vo., pp. xiii. and 399, vi. and 416, cloth. 218.

planatory Notes. By JAMES LEGGE, D.D. Reproduced for the General Reader from the Author's Work, "The Chinese Classics," with the Original Text. Crown 8vo. pp. vi. and 338, cloth. 108. 6d.

and Tradition. Translated from the Original Sanskrit, and Illustrated by Notes derived chiefly from other Puranas. By the late HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, M.A., F.R.S. Thoroughly revised and edited, with Notes, by Dr. FITZ-EDWARD HALL. Vols. 1 to 4. 8vo. cloth. £2 28. [Vols. 5 and 6 in the Press.

The Sacred City of the Hindus: an Account of

Benares in Ancient and Modern Times. By the Rev. M. A. SHERRING, M.A., LL.B.; and Prefaced with an Introduction by FITZ-EDWARD HALL, Esq., D.C.L. 8vo. pp. xxxvi. and 388, cloth. With 10 Full-page Woodcut Illustrations from Photographs. 218.

MORALITY of "THE OLD PHILOSOPHER," LAU-TSZE. Translated from the Chinese, with an Introduction, by JOHN CHALMERS, M.A. Fcap. 8vo. pp. xx, and 62, cloth. 48. 6d.

MAHOMMEDANIS M.

The Dervishes; or Oriental Spiritualism. By

JOHN P. BROWN, Secretary and Dragoman of the Legation of the United States of America at Constantinople. In one volume, with twenty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. pp. viii. and 416, cloth. 14.

hacharyas in Western India. With a Steel Plate. 8vo. pp. xv. and 183, cloth. 128.

ZOROASTRIANISM.

A Lecture on an Original Speech of Zoroaster

(Yasna 45), with remarks on his age. By MARTIN HAUG, Ph. D. 870 pp. 28, sewed. 28.

Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and

RELIGION of the PARSEES. By MARTIN HAUG, Ph.D. Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies in the Poona College. 8vo. cloth, pp. 278. 318. 6d.

The Religion of the Zoroastrians, as contained in

their Sacred Writings. With a history of the Zend and Pehlevi Literature, and a Grammar of the Zend and Pehlevi Languages. By MARTIN HAUG, Ph. D., late Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies in the Poona College. 2 vols. 8vo. [In preparation.

BUDDHISM.

Buddhaghosha's Parables. Translated from

Burmese, by Capt. H. T. ROGERS, R.E. With an Introduction, containing Buddha's "Dhammapadam, or Path of Virtue." Translated from the Pali by F. MAX MÜLLER. 8vo. cloth, pp. clxxii. and 206. 12s. 6d.

Max Müller's Lecture on Buddhist Nihilism. Delivered before the General Meeting of the Association of German Philologists, at Kiel, 28th September, 1869. 18.

By Sir SYED AHMED. 18.

The Koran. Arabic Text, Lithographed in Oudh, A.H. 1284 (1867 C E.). 16mo. pp. 942, bound in red goat skin, oriental style, silver tooling. 78. 6d.

Now first imported from India. The printing, as well as the outer appearance of the book, is extremely tasteful, and the characters, although small, read very easily. As a cheap edition for reference this is preferable to any other, and its price puts it within the reach of every Oriental scholar.

The Life of Muhammed.

the Burmese, with Annotations. The Ways to Neibban, and Notice on the Phongyies, or Burmese Monks. By the Right Reverend P. BIGANDET, Bishop of Ramatha, Vicar Apostolic of Ava and Pegu. 8vo. sewed, pp. xi., 538, and v. 188.

Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist Pilgrims, from CHINA to INDIA (400 A.D. and 518 A.D.) Translated from the Chinese. By SAMUEL BEAL. B.A. Trin. Coll. Cam, a Chaplain in H.M.'s Fleet, a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Author of a Translation of the "Pratimoksha" and the "Amithaba Sutra," from the Chinese. Crown 8vo. pp. lxxiii. and 210, cloth, ornamental. 10s. 6d.

Buddhism in Tibet: Illustrated by Literary Docu

ments and Objects of Religious Worship. With an Account of the Buddhist Systems preceding it in India. By EMIL DE SCHLAGINTWEIT, LL.D. With a folio Atlas of 20 Plates, and 20 Tables of Native Prints in the Text. Royal 8vo. pp. xxiv. and 404. £2 28.

ZULUS. In their own words. Translated into English, with Notes, By the Rev. CANON CALLAWAY, M.D. Vol. I. 8vo. pp. vii. and cloth. 168.

Reynard the Fox, in South Africa; or, Hottentot

Fables and Tables, chiefly Translated from Original Manuscripts in the Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B. By W. H. L BLEEK, Ph.D, 8vo. cloth. 38. 6d.

AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY.

The Myths of the New World. A Treatise on the

Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America. By DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D. Crown 8vo. pp, viii. and 308, cloth. 10. 64.

O-Kee-Pa. A Religious Ceremony: and other

Customs of the Mandans. By GEORGE CATLIN. With Thirteen
Coloured Illustrations. Small 4to. pp. vi. and 52, cloth. 148.
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Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press for Thirty Years. Progress of American Journalism from 1840 to 1870. With Portrait, Illustrations, and Appendix. By Augustus Maverick. Hartford, Conn.: A. S. Hale & Co. 1870. London: Trübner & Co.

The volume before us is really more a history of American Journalism for thirty years than a life of Mr. Raymond, and as such of much greater interest than the monotonous life of a writer for the press must necessarily be. The following quotations will serve to show what the author tells us about the late editor of the New York Times :-" One mile and a half from the centre of the little post village of Lima is the old homestead upon which Henry J. Raymond was born, Jan. 24, 1820. His active mind-too active at timesbegan to take form at the age of three, when he read simple lessons fluently, to the boundless delight of doting parents and admiring friends. At the age of five he was a speaker, for in the winter of 1824-5, while under the teaching of Mr. Fosdick, he appeared in the public exhibition of the scholars as the reciter of two pieces; one of which was a satire upon lawyers, couched in terms severe but simple, as befitted a youth of such tender years. At the age of eight he had begun to attend Mr. Hutton's classical school in the village of Lima, studying the elementary lessons during the summer, and remaining at home in the winter months. Henry J. Raymond was among the first students who entered the new Genessee Wesleyan Seminary in 1832. His age was 12, and he had profited so well by the instruction previously received in smaller schools that he was perfectly qualified to undertake a broader course of study. His most intimate schoolmate in the seminary was Alexander Mann, through whose urgent solicitation Raymond subsequently went to college. Emerging from the seminary, Raymond began to cast about for employment. His common-sense way of looking at the affairs of life suggested the reflection that it was his duty to contribute towards the expense of his own support; and

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accordingly he obtained a place in a country store. The pay was at the rate of 75 dollars a year-not an extravagant reward for the intelligent service performed-but the lad did not like the business, and not long afterwards he and trade parted company for ever. In his sixteenth year he began to teach, procuring the charge of a district school, for three months, in Wheatland, Genessee County, fifteen miles northwest of Lima. In country phrase he "boarded round," taking such accommodations of food and lodging as the universal custom of the day afforded to impecunious young teachers, but thriving under circumstances which were not altogether agreeable. The pay was small, and he was very young to hold the place of pedagogue; many of his scholars excelled him in size and weight, as well as in age; and his path was not strewed with roses. But he had a strong will, and his experience in teaching was not a failure.

In the following summer, his school contract having expired, he returned to the homestead in Lima; and on the Fourth of July made his first appearance as a poet. The celebration of the National Anniversary in Lima that year was exceptionally grand. The patriotic citizens, determining that the Fourth" should be honoured with all due observance, devoted much thought and time to the celebration; and, in response to a pressing invitation, young Raymond wrote an ode, which was sung by the village choir with immense spirit, to the accompaniment of a swelling chorus.

With the writing of the Fourth of July ode, in 1836, virtually ended Raymond's residence in Lima. In the following August he entered the Freshman Class of the University of Vermont, in Burlington, and his College life began.

Shortly after leaving college Mr. Raymond went to New York and became connected with the New Yorker, the Tribune, and afterwards with the Courier and Enquirer. A peculiar combination of political events in the year 1848 led Mr. Thurlow Weed to contemplate a final retirement from

suitable to the learned and the unlearned. He says every man can produce a system that admirably suits himself, but unhappily it is generally found that his system is clear to nobody else.-The Redwood Library.-Five thousand dollars have been offered to the authorities of this library, for the purchase of books, by Mr. George Gibbs, of Newport, R.I., provided they can raise the same amount for that purpose. He also offers ten thousand dollars on the same conditions, for enlarging and improving the library building.-The Bronson Library-At a meeting held at Waterbury, Conn., a vote was passed to insure the library for twelve thousand dollars, and to print one thousand copies of the catalogue as soon as the books now expected have arrived. The Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn.-Mr. Trumbull, the librarian, reports 20,054 now in this library, and averages the cost of 17,635 of them at two dollars forty-three cents. per volume. He advocates the keeping of the library open in the evenings, but thinks that at the same time the cost of doing so, which would be about two thousand dollars a year would be too heavy, unless the wealthy inhabitants of the city come forward and bear the cost.-The Boston Public Library. The trustees are about to form a collection of Frankliniana, as a memorial to the fame of Benjamin Franklin. Anything relating to the celebrated printer, from a single sheet to the most voluminous edition of his works, will find a place in this collection, to which they solicit contributions. By the report just issued, the library now contains 153,000 volumes, 8,689 having been added last year.-The Public Library of Cincinnati.-This library, which commenced operations in 1802, was the first library in the then Western States.-Mr. Lewis Kerr being the first librarian appointed. Mr. W. F. Poole, late of the Boston Athenæum, and author of the celebrated "Index to Periodical Literature," has just become chief of the same institution.-The St. Louis Public School Library is said to contain upwards of 20,000 volumes, and each pupil reads an average of fifteen volumes per annum,

COLLEGES, INSTITUTIONS, SOCIETIES, &C., OF THE UNITED STATES. The University of California.-The Board of Regents of this fine university have decided on abolishing all fees, and making its benefits free to all comers who are properly qualified, no matter what their nationality.-The Maine Historical Society's next volume will be "Richard Hakluyt's Particular Discourse concerning the greate necessitie and manifold comodyties that are like to grow to this Realme of Englande by the Westerne discoveries lately attempted, written in the yere 1584, at the request of Mr. Walter Raleigh, before the comynge home of his two Barkes" (from Virginia, &c.). This is an unpublished MS. of Hakluyt's, and Dr. Leonard Woods will be the gentleman who will edit it and see it safely through the press. -The Iowa State Historical Society issues a quarterly volume of "Annals," under the editorship of J. W. Huff, M.D.-Metropolitan Art Museum, New York.-It is proposed to found an institution under this name, to be in character something like the South Kensington Museum. The Union League Club Art Committee, of which G. P. Putman, Esq. is Chairman, have the matter in hand.

ENGLISH AUTHORS AND AMERICAN PUBLISHERS.-To the Editor of the Times (London).-SIR,-The enclosed correspondence will throw some light on the relations of English authors to American publishers.

As things are at present there is no legal obstacle to prevent a dishonest Englishman from selling the copy of an unpublished poem which he has been allowed to borrow or has purloined to a Transatlantic publisher, and simply pocketing the proceeds. One bar only remains the right feeling of the American public and of the American publishers. Those of your readers who will glance at the two letters which I enclose will blush for their countrymen, but will not despair of their cousins on the other side. For obvious reasons, the name, address, and a single clause in No. 1 are suppressed.-I am, Sir, your obedient servant, January 20, B.

No. 1.

New York, Dec. 3rd, 1869. GENTLEMEN,-I have just arrived from England, where I received a commission to dispose of a serious (sic) of 12 small poems by Alfred Tennyson, P.L. of Great Britain. They have never been published, but have been printed privately by Sir at his private press, where only

six copies were printed. The lowest price for these 12 poems, together with a MS. volume containing various emendations, is £250 sterling. These poems are known to about a dozen people only. Corroborative evidence will be given in writing if desired as to the poems having been written by A. Tennyson, and also as to their being still unpublished. Please address Street, New York.

No. 2.

Boston, Dec. 6, 1869. DEAR SIR, We are in receipt of your letter of December 3, in which you say you are in possession of certain unpublished poems of Mr. Tennyson's, which you are willing to dispose of for the sum of £250 sterling. We are perfectly aware of the existence of these poems, but we are also aware that they should not be given to the public, they having been written for a strictly private reason. Within two months a member of our firm has personally conversed with Mr. Tennyson upon this very point, and we therefore know precisely what his feeling is.

Under no circumstances could we enter into negotiations for their publication. More than this, we feel certain that only by a breach of confidence on the part of some person could they have found their way to the American market.

As Mr. Tennyson's authorised publishers and representatives in America, we must remonstrate in the strongest terms against any publicity being given to the poems; and we trust, upon this view of the case being presented to your mind, you will discontinue proceedings in the matter. We shall be glad to hear that you conclude to withdraw them from publication.

We are, dear Sir, your obedient servants, FIELDS, OSGOOD & Co. PAPER PULP IN A NOVEL FORM-Jefferson Evarts, of Madison, has taken out a patent for paper coffins. The paper is prepared of the requisite thickness, saturated in oil, baked, japanned, and polished, and thus becomes hard, will resist acid, and is thought to be imperishable.

NEW BOOKS, ETC.-The juvenile public will be delighted to hear that Messrs. Hurd and Houghton will issue all of Hans Christian Anderson's works, including "Wonder Stories for Children," with 120 illustrations; and "Stories and Tales," also illustrated. The same firm have ready "Mother Goose Melodies," with the eighteen elegant full-paged illustrations by H. L. Stephens which appeared in the Riverside Magazine, together with ten smaller illustrations by Gaston Fay; the music to the melodies will be by Charles Moulton. Messrs. Hurd and Houghton announce besides, Dr. Hugh Davy Evans's "Christian Doctrine of Marriage."-In Southern literature we are promised a new edition of Gilmore Simms's works, which will be published by Mr. Widdleton, while Mr. Carleton has issued "The Living writers of the South," by Prof. James Wood Davidson.-The first portion of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Life of Jesus the Christ has been issued under the title of "The Overture of Angels.""The American Saints in their Territory" is the title of a forthcoming book by Mr. J. H. Beadle, who had a very narrow escape with his life from the said Mormon saints.-United States Typography is to shortly have an addition to its literature by the publication of Chief Justice Breese's "History of Illinois from its earliest times, including the Jesuit Explorations and Discoveries;" and W. H. Gray's (of Astoria) "History of Oregon," both books being in preparation for the press.In Educational History two books are announced "The History of the Public School Society of the City of New York," by William Oland Bourne, illustrated with the portraits of the presidents of the Society, and containing a full account of all the controversies respecting the distribution of the Common School Fund. The second one is "The School History of New Jersey," by J. R. Sypher and E. A. Apgar, which will no doubt be a valuable work."The Andes and the Amazon" are again to have a chronicler and delineator, in the person of Prof. Orton, whose book will be published by Harper, Bros.

PERIODICALS, ETC.-The Children's New Church Magazine is the title of a new illustrated (Swedenborgian) juvenile, issued by the New Church Society: it is a marvel of cheapness considering the creditable way it is got up.-The American Sovereign, which is rather a curious title for a journal published in a republic, is to treat on rural affairs and social science.-The Ailantic Monthly for February, in an