This edition will be found a great improvement on those that preceded it. The author has taken care to avail himself of all such criticisms on particular passages in the previous editions as appeared to him to be just, and he has enlarged the work by more than a hundred pages of additional matter. The chapter on the “Villages and Rural Population of India,” and several other sections of the work, are quite new. “In this volume we have the thoughtful impressions of a thoughtful man on some of the most important questions connected with our Indian Empire.... An enlightened observant man, travelling among an enlightened observant people, Professor Monier Williams has brought before the public in a pleasant form more of the manners and customs of the Queen’s Indian subjects than we ever remember to have seen in any one work. He not only deserves the thanks of every Englishman for this able contribution to the study of Modern India--a subject with which we should be specially familiar--but he deserves the thanks of every Indian, Parsee or Hindu, Buddhist and Moslem, for his clear exposition of their manners, their creeds, and their necessities.”--_Times._ In Two Volumes, post 8vo, pp. viii.-408 and viii.-348, cloth, price 28s. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS RELATING TO INDIAN SUBJECTS. BY BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON, ESQ., F.R.S., Late of the Bengal Civil Service; Corresponding Member of the Institute; Chevalier of the Legion of Honour; Honorary Member of the German Oriental Society and the Société Asiatique; Member of the Asiatic Societies of Calcutta and London; of the Ethnological and Zoological Societies of London; and late British Minister at the Court of Nepal. _CONTENTS OF VOL. I._ SECTION I.--On the Kocch, Bódó, and Dhimál Tribes.--Part I. Vocabulary--Part II. Grammar.--Part III. Their Origin, Location, Numbers, Creed, Customs, Character, and Condition, with a General Description of the Climate they dwell in.--Appendix. SECTION II.--On Himalayan Ethnology.--I. Comparative Vocabulary of the Languages of the Broken Tribes of Népál.--II. Vocabulary of the Dialects of the Kiranti Language.--III. Grammatical Analysis of the Váyu Language. The Váyu Grammar.--IV. Analysis of the Báhing Dialect of the Kiranti Language. The Báhing Grammar.--V. On the Váyu or Háyu Tribe of the Central Himaláya.--VI. On the Kiranti Tribe of the Central Himaláya. _CONTENTS OF VOL. II._ SECTION III.--On the Aborigines of North-Eastern India. Comparative Vocabulary of the Tibetan, Bódó, and Gáró Tongues. SECTION IV.--Aborigines of the North-Eastern Frontier. SECTION V.--Aborigines of the Eastern Frontier. SECTION VI.--The Indo-Chinese Borderers, and their connection with the Himalayans and Tibetans. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Arakan. Comparative Vocabulary of Indo-Chinese Borderers in Tenasserim. SECTION VII.--The Mongolian Affinities of the Caucasians.--Comparison and Analysis of Caucasian and Mongolian Words.