Any suggestions by clients, with a view to increasing the usefulness of this list, are solicited, and will, where practicable, be adopted. To enable us to make this "List" as complete as possible, scholars are urged to send us full details of any work published, or in course of preparatior by them. We will then announce it, thus helping to make it more widely known than might otherwise be the case. REVIEWS, NOTES, NEWS. Information as to the present whereabouts of the two Manuscripts of which a description follows, is particularly desired: Menologium, commencant au 4. octobre jusqu'au 29 aout. Manuscrit chrétien arabe du XII siècle sur vélin. 198 folios. Sm. folio. Beau caractère Neskhi ancien, les dates en rouge. Le commencement et la fin manquent. Vitæ sanctorum. folios. Sm. folio. Manuscrit chrétien-arabe du XIV siècle sur vélin. 58 Beau caractère Neskhi ancien. La ponctuation en rouge. Au commencement et à la fin défectueux. The information should please be forwarded to Messrs. Luzac and Co. In his work "Im Kampfe mit der Zauberwelt des Hinduismus" Father Alfons Väth, S.J., gives us an able and sympathetic, but wisely critical, account of the career of an interesting and gifted personality. The subject of his biography, Bhavani Charan Banerji Upadhyaya, was by origin a Kanauj Brahman, and was born in Bengal in 1861. Highly gifted by nature and well educated in both oriental and western culture, he was early attracted towards Christianity; he received baptism in the Anglican Church in 1891, and in the same year he entered the Church of Rome at Karachi, adopting the name of Brahmabandhav, by which he was subsequently known. He now set himself the great task of winning India for the Catholic faith. His vigorous and able propaganda on behalf of Christianity in opposition to current Hindu teachings soon attracted attention and respect, which was increased by his adoption of the Hindu ascetic life, for he went about as a Sannyasi, bare-headed and bare-footed, and eating only vegetables. Before long his zeal led him to project the establishment of a monastic order of friars who should convert India by presenting Christianity in an Indian garb, and observing the rules of caste, and at the same time be began to gravitate perilously towards Vedantic ideas, into which he endeavoured to read the principles of Christianity. His rashness and obstinacy in urging this policy, together with the vehemence of his nationalistic and anti-British utterances, brought him into conflict with authority. The violent and dangerous tone of his political writings in the press during the Boer War and the troubles in China about the year 1900 and the irregularity of his religious doctrine made it impossible for the Church to countenance his activities. His journals "Sophia" and "The Twentieth Century were therefore forbidden by the ecclesiastical authorities. He now entered upon a new course of activity, for he had come under the influence of Rabindranath Tagore, which caused him to devote himself to Indian education and politics, and finally to propagate a higher form of Hinduism. After a journey in Europe in 1902-3, in which his philosophic and religious preaching made a considerable impression, especially in Oxford and Cambridge, he set himself to the task of educating India according to his ideas. In 1905 he projected a grand scheme of a "National College," on the basis of an improved Hinduism. It was never realised. He had now gravitated back towards the Hindu religion, though still nominally a Christian and observing some rites of the Church. On the 27th of October, 1907, he died in hospital after an operation, pending a trial for his political activities. Thus tragically ended the life of a singularly talented man, ruined by rashness and intemperate ardour. The latest publication of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series, forming No. 35, is the Sanskrit text of the “Mānava-grihya-sūtra" with the commentary of Ashṭāvakra, edited with introduction, indexes and notes by Ramakrishņa Harshaji Sastri, while an English preface is contributed by Professor B. C. Lele. The text of the Sutra has already been edited by F. Knauer, who published it with extracts from the commentary of Ashṭāvakra at St Petersburg in 1897; but the present edition is welcome, especially as the whole of Ashṭāvakra's work has not hitherto been accessible to students. The importance of the Sūtra as a document of early Brahmanic ritualism has long been recognised not only does it contain much matter of value for the study of ritual, but it gives some interesting prescriptions which deserve the attention of the folklorist. Ashṭāvakra's exposition, though perhaps not a work of first-class importance, is a learned and laborious production, which merits the study of the specialist. Altogether the volume will be useful, especially as it is provided with indexes of the verbal roots and of the words found in the text of the Sutra. A hearty welcome is due to the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archæology, of which the first issue, covering the publications of the year 1926, lies before us. Published by the Kern Institute in Leyden with the support of the Government of Netherlands India (and it is deeply to be regretted that the Governments of India and Ceylon have not thought fit to associate themselves with such a useful and scholarly enterprise), and edited by Professor J. Ph. Vogel, it is in every respect admirable. The introduction gives a summary account of the most important publications and discoveries of the year in the realm of Indian archæology, which in the present volume are the Indian Archæological Survey's excavations on the prehistoric "Indo-Sumerian" site of Mohenjo-Daro, Sir Aurel Stein's discovery of the site of Aornos on Pir-sar, east of the Swat River, Mr. Daya Ram Sahni's final identification of Kauśambi with the modern Kosam, the excavations at Nālandā, the conservation of the frescoes of Ajanta by the Government of Hyderabad, the discovery of inscriptions of an Ikṣvāku dynasty of the second or third century in Guntur District and of inscribed statues of two Pallava kings at Mamallapuram, Prof. Herzfeld's important surveys of Iranian archæological remains, and several other matters. After this comes the bibliography proper, which is divided into six main headings, the first being general and the rest comprising India, Ceylon, Further India, Indonesia, and adjoining territories, with subdivisions where necessary, which is followed by an index of writers' names and eleven remarkably fine plates. The whole work is admirably executed, and a very useful feature in the bibliography is the frequent addition to the titles of books and papers registered of short descriptions of them taken from reviews, etc. The magnificent "Linguistic Survey of India" is now practically completed by the appearance of the first part of Volume I, containing introductory matter, while the second part is announced as being in the press. We may therefore offer our hearty congratulations to Sir George Grierson on the accomplishment of his colossal task, which he has discharged with a skill and learning that are probably without parallel in the history of philological science. In the present volume are given firstly a review of the slow process |