THE

CALCUTTA REVIEW.

VOL. II.

OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1844.

No man, who hath tasted learning, but will confess the many ways of profiting by those, who
not contented with stale receipts, are able to manage and set forth new positions to the world:
and were they but as the dust and cinders of our feet, so long, as in that notion, they may yet
serve to polish and brighten the armoury of truth; even for that respect they were not utterly to
be cast away."-MILTON.

CALCUTTA:

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1844.

CONTENTS

OF

No. III. VOL. II.

ART. I. THE KULIN BRAHMINS OF BENGAL.

1. Genealogical account of the Kulins, by Dhrubánanda

Misra, Sanscrit, unpublished.

. 1

2. Kula-sará-sindhu, by Raghunandan Tarkabágish, San-

scrit, unpublished.

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

3. Mukhuti-kula-varaná, Sanscrit, unpublished.

4. A Historical Fragment, Sanscrit verse, unpublished.

5. Sankarmála, by Bhrigurama, Sanscrit, unpublished.

6. Kankálir Abhishámpa, or the malediction of Kankáli, by

Ram Chunder Turkálankar.-Ratnakar Press,

Calcutta.

ART. II.-MILITARY DEFENCE OF OUR EMPIRE

IN THE EAST.

1. The Science of National Defence, with reference to India,

accompanied by a Map, &c. &c.-by Frederick Cor-

byn. Calcutta: Thacker and Co.

2. The East India Register, for 1844. London, Allen

and Co.

3. Allen's Map of India, from the latest surveys. London,

1844.

ART. III. THE JESUITS' MISSIONS IN INDIA.

1. Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, 26 tomes. Paris,

1780-1783.

2. Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, &c. Collection faisant

suite aux LETTRES EDIFIANTES. Lyon.

3. Memoires Historiques presentés (en 1744,) au Souverain

Pontife Benoit XIV. Par le R. P. Norbert. Besançon

1747; et, Luques, 1745. Avec la permission des

Supérieurs.

ib.

32

ib.

ib.

73

ART. IV.-ADDISCOMBE.

1. Rules and Regulations of the Honorable East India

Company's Seminary at Addiscombe, 1834.

2. Ditto ditto, 1844.

3. The Military Annual, London, 1844.

121

. ib.

4. Peregrine Pultuney; or Life in India, 3 vols. 8vo. Lon-

don, 1844.

ART. V.--THE SEIKHS AND THEIR COUNTRY.

1. Journal of a march from Delhi to Peshawur, and from

thence to Cabool with the Mission of Colonel Wade,

including Travels in the Punjab, a visit to the City

of Lahore, and a narrative of Operations in the

Khybur Pass in 1839, by Lieut. W. Barr: post 8vo.

cloth, with six illustrations. London, 1844.

2. Map of the Western Provinces of Hindustan; the Pun-

jab, Rajpootanah, Scinde, Cabool, &c. cloth, in a

case, W. H. Allen and Co. London, 1844.

ART. VI. SIR W. H. MACNAGHTEN.

1. General Register of the Hon'ble East India Company's

Civil Servants on the Bengal establishment, from

1790 to 1842, comprising the dates of their respective

appointments, &c. &c., compiled from authentic sources,

under the direction of the Hon'ble H. T. Prinsep,

by Ramchunder Doss.-Calcutta, printed at the

Baptist Mission Press, 1844,

2. Papers relating to Afghanistan. London, 1838,

3. The Military operations at Caubul, which ended in the

retreat and destruction of the British Army, January,

1842, &c. &c.-By Lieut. Vincent Eyre, Bengal

Artillery. London, 1843,

MISCELLANEOUS CRITICAL NOTICES.

1. Discourses read at the Meetings of the Hindu Theophilan-

thropic Society-Calcutta, 1844,

2. Proposed Fever Hospital, in connection with the Medical

153

ib.

209

ib.

ib.

. 266

College, Calcutta. By Fred. J. Mouat, M. D., . . 277

3. Narrative of a Mission to India and the countries

bordering on the Persian Gulph, &c. by M. Fontanier

-Vice Consul of France at Bassorah, London, 1844, 286

4. Sketches of Oriental Heads. By Charles Grant, No.

14, Calcutta; Thacker and Co., 1844,

295

ART. I.-THE STATE OF INDIGENOUS EDUCATION

IN BENGAL AND BEHAR.

1. Second Report on the state of Education in Bengal.-

District of Rajsahi, 1836. Published by order of

Government,

2. Third Report on the state of Education in Bengal and

Behar, &c. 1838. By William Adam. Published

by order of Government,

301

ART. II.-ROMANCE AND REALITY OF INDIAN

ib.

LIFE.

1. Sale's Translation of the Koran-Bath, 1795,

2. Bernier's Travels, translated by John Steuart, Cal-

cutta, 1826,

377

ib.

3. Bernier's History of the late revolution of the Empire

of the Great Mogul-Englished out of French.

London, 1671. Calcutta, 1824,

4. History of Nadir Shah, by James Fraser. 2d Edition.

London, 1742,

5. Life of Nadir Shah.

Extracted from an Eastern M.S.

translated into French. By William Jones, Esq.

London, 1773,

6. Observations on the Mussulmans of India. By Mrs.

Meer Hassan Ali. London, 1832,

ib.

ib.

ib.

ib.

7. Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. By

E. W. Lane. London, 1836,

ib.

8. A Memoir of Central India, by Major General Mal-

colm. London, 1825,

9. Urquhart's Spirit of the East.

ib.

Henry Colburn.

Lon-

don, 1838,

ib.

10. Dow's History of Hindostan. London, 1812,

11. Account of the Kingdom of Caubul. By the Honora-

ble Mountstuart Elphinstone. London, 1839,

12. The History of Persia by Sir John Malcolm. Murray.

London, 1815,

ib.

ib.

ib.