Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review Volume 13 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... notes on grammar are either incorrect, or so vaguely expressed as to be of no use whatever to the student. For instance, the author says that Kitab, 'a book', and man, 'mother', are masculine nouns and do not change for the Plural number, having just before given Kitabon as the plural of Kitab. without any explanation of the difference between the nominative and the oblique cases. He also says "In Hindustani we form "Perfect Participle" by adding "hai" to the Past Tense." This ir his rule, and the only one, for explaining the construction of "Main ne Khaya hai = I have laten " When will Army Munshis becapableof teaching the grammar of their own language? (Seep. 103). Rev. Dr. William Miller, of Madras, is well known as a student of Shakespeare and is well fitted to show how the great thoughts of our national poet "may serve the permanent needs of men and the present needs of India." What "King Lear and Indian Politics" was meant to do for India, "Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Ruin of Souls," published last year, will do for all who may chance to read this admirable treatise. Starting with historical data and textual criticism, our author goes on to trace the masterly way in which Shakespeare pourtrays the action and reaction of the powers that make for right and wrong. 'For the Kingdom of evil presses its assaults on every man; and there comes to every man an hour which determines whether, as the completed outcome of his life, he is to be God's freeman or the devil's slave.' (See p. 228). We understand that Major Raverty intends very shortly to publish a third issue of his Afghan or Pus'hto works--his Dictionary, Grammar, and Selections, or Gulshan-i-Roh--revised and improved, which for ...