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ALBERUNI: India. An Account of the Religion, Philosophy,Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws,and Astrology of India, about A.D. 1030. By Dr. Edward C. Sachau.
ARNOLD (Sir E.): Indian Poetry and Indian Idylls.Containing ‘The Indian Song of Songs,’ from the Sanskrit of the GitaGovinda of Jayadeva; Two Books from ‘The Iliad of India’ (Mahabharata);‘Proverbial Wisdom,’ from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa,and other Oriental Poems.
BARTH (Dr. A.): The Religions of India. AuthorisedTranslation by Rev. J. Wood.
BIGANDET (B. P.): Life or Legend of Gaudama, theBuddha of the Burmese; With Annotations, the Ways to Neibban, andNotice on the Phongyies or Burmese Monks.
BEAL (Prof. S.): Life of Hiuen-Tsiang. By the ShamansHwui Li and Yen-Tsung. With a Preface containing an Account ofthe Works of I-Tsing.
BEAL (Prof. S.): Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of theWestern World. Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen-Tsiang.
BOULTING (Dr. W.): Four Pilgrims. I., HiuenTsiang; II., Sæwulf; III., Mohammed ibn abd Allah; IV., LudovicoVarthema of Bologna.
COWELL (Prof. E. B.): Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha: or,Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy. By MadhavaAcharya. Translated by Prof. E. B. Cowell, M.A., and Prof. A. E.Gough, M.A.
DOWSON (Prof. J.): Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythologyand Religion, Geography, History, and Literature.
EDKINS (Dr. J.): Chinese Buddhism: A Volume ofSketches, Historical and Critical. New and Revised Edition.
ROCKHILL (W. W.): The Life of the Buddha and theEarly History of his Order. Derived from Tibetan works in the Bkah-hgyurand Bstan-hgyur. Followed by notices on the early history ofTibet and Khoten.
HAUG (Dr. M.): Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings,and Religion of the Parsis.
WEBER (Dr. A.): History of Indian Literature. Translatedby John Mann, M.A., and Theodore Zachariae, Ph.D. FourthEdition.
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History traces the evolution of the social structurein which the community exists to-day. There arethree chief factors at work in this evolution; racialdescent, culture drift, and transmission of language:the first of these physiological and not necessarilyconnected with the other two, whilst those two arenot always associated with each other. In the evolutionof the social structure the factor of first importanceis the