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EEMAKD THE FOX IN SOUTH AFEICA ;

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HOTTENTOT FABLES AND TALES.

REYNARD THE FOX

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SOUTH AFRICA;

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CHIEFLY TRANSLATED FROM OEIGINAL MANrSCEIPTS

IK THE

LIBRARY

OF

HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

BY

W. H. I. BLEEK, Ph.D.

LONDON : TRUBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1864

l^Tke Might of Translation is reserved.^

LONDON :

WILLIAM STEVENS, PRINTEB, 37, BBLL YARD, TEUPLE BAB.

THIS BOOK BELONGS TO

CHILDREN IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE,

AND TO THEIE FEIEND

SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.

NOW IN NEW ZEALAND.

CONTENTS.

I. Jackal Fables.

PAGE

]. The Lion's Defeat .

1

2. Tlie Hunt of the Lion and Jackal .

8

3. The Lion's Share

5

4. The Jackal's Bride

9

5. The White Man and the Snake

11

6. Another Version of the same Fable

13

7. Cloud-Eating

14

8. Fish-Stealing ....

16

9. Which was the Thief .P

18

10. The Lion's Illness

19

11. The Dove and the Heron

21

12. The Cock ....

23

13. The Leopard and the Ram .

24

II. Tortoise Fables.

14. The Elephant and the Tortoise

15. The Giraffe and the Tortoise .

16. The Tortoises Hunting the Ostriches

CONTENTS.

Til. Baboon Fables.

17. The Jtxdgment of the Baboon .

18. The Lion and tlie Baboon

19. Tbe Zebra Stallion .

20. The Lost Child (a Tale) .

21. The Baboon Sbepberd (a Tale)

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33 37 39

42 44

lY. Lion Fables.

22. Tbe Flying Lion . . . . 45

23. The Lion who thought himself "Wiser than his

Mother . . . . .47

24. The Lion who took a Woman's Shape . . 50

25. A "Woman transformed into a Lion (a Tale) . 57

26. The Lion and the Bushman (a Tale) . . 59

V. Yariotjs Fables.

27. How a Kama "Woman otitwitted the Elephants . 61

28. A Bad Sister . . . .65

VI. Sun and Moon Fables.

29. "Why has the Jackal a long black Stripe on his

Back? ....

30. The Horse cnrsed by the Sun .

31. The Origin of Death

32. Another Yersion of the same Fable . . 71

33. A Third Yersion of the same Fable . . 72

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34. A roui-tli Yersion of the same Fable . . 73

35. A Zulu Version of the Legend of the " Origin of

Death" . . . . . 74

YII. Heitsi Eibip and other Legends.

36. Heitsi Eibip . . . .75

37. The Yictory of Heitsi Eibip . . . 77

38. Another Yersion of the same Legend . . 78

39. The Raisin-Eater . . . . 80

40. Origin of the Difference in Modes of Life between

Hottentots and Bushmen . . .83

Yin. HoTJSEHOLD Tales.

41. The Little Wise Woman . . . . 85

42. The Unreasonable Child to whom the Dog gave

its Desei-ts ; or, a Receipt for getting any one

to Sleep . . . . .90

PREFACE.

My dear Sir George,

In inscribing to you this little book, I do no more than offer tbat which is your due, as its ap- pearance is mainly owing to you. It was by your desire that I wrote, in 1861, to different Missionaries in South Africa, requesting them to make collections of Native Literature, similar in nature to those which, through your instrumentality, had been so abundantly rescued from oblivion in New Zealand. I then wrote, among others, to the Rev. Gr. Kronlein, Ehenish Missionary at Beerseba, Great Namaqua- land ; but it was not till after you had left us, on a new mission of honour and duty, that I received from him (at five different periods) the original manu- scripts from which most of the Fables given here are translated. He sent us, altogether, twenty-four

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Fables, Tales, and Legends, besides twelve Songs of Praise, thirty-two Proverbs, and twelve Piddles ; all in Hottentot (as taken down by liiui from the mouth of the Natives) and German, partly accompanied by explanatory notes, including fragments of the jNusa * Bushman language. Mr. Kronlein's manuscripts fill sixty-five pages, mostly in quarto, with double colimms.

You are aware that the existence of Fables among the Hottentots was already known to us through Sil* James Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa" (8vo., two vols., London, 1838), and that some interesting specimens of their literature had been given by him in that work ; but that Fables form so extensive a mass of traditionary Native literature amongst the Namaqua, has first been brought to light by Mr. Kronlein's communica- tions. The fact of such a literary capacity existing among a nation whose mental qualifications it has been usual to estimate at the lowest standard, is of the greatest importance ; and that their literary activity (in contradistinction to the general character

• Cisgariepian, from tlie Nama point of view, i e., to the North, of the Orange River.

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of Native literature among Negro nations) has been employed almost in the same direction as that which had been taken by our own earliest literature, is in itself of great significance.

Some questions of no trifling importance and in- terest are raised by the appearance of such an un- looked-for mine of literary lore, particularly as to the originality of these Fables. Whether they are indeed the real offspring of the desert, and can be considered as truly indigenous Native literature, or whether they have been either purloined from the superior white race, or at least brought into existence by the stim- ulus which contact with the latter gave to the Native mind (like that resulting in the invention of the Tshiroki and Yei alphabets) may be matters of dis- pute for some time to come, and it may require as much research as was expended upon the solv- ing of the riddle of the originality of the Ossianic poems.

But whatever may be the ultimate result of such inquiries, whether it will confirm our idea of the originality and antiquity of the main portion of these Hottentot Fables, and consequently stamp them with the character of the oldest and most primitive literary remains of the old mother tonofue of the Sexdenotinff

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nations, or whether they have only sprung up recently among the Hottentots from foreign seed — in either case the disposition of the Hottentots to the enjoy- ment of such Fables, and their easy growth on this arid soil, be it their native or adopted one — shows a much greater congeniality between the Hottentot and European mind than we find between the latter and any of the black races of Africa.

This similarity in the disposition of nations can in itseK indeed hardly be considered as a valid proof of common ancestry ; but if there be other grounds to make us believe that the nations in question, or at least their languages, are of common origin, it may render us more inclined to assume that such a simi- larity in their literary taste is derived also from the same source.

The great ethnological difierence between the Hot- tentots and the black nations of South Africa has been a marked fact from almost the earliest acquaint- ance of Europeans with these parts, and occasional stray guesses (for example, in R. Mofiat's " Mission- ary^ Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa," 1842, p. 6), have already for some time pouited to a North African origin for the Hottentots.

It is, however, only within the last dozen years

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that tliis has been established as a proved, and, I be- Keve to most observers, an, at first, astonishing fact. I well remember still the feeling of most curious interest with which I regarded Knudsen's translation of Luke's Gospel (vol. i., No. 15 of your Library), when, in April 1850, it was sent me by the then Inspector of the Rhenish Mission House, the E,ev J. C. Wall m arm, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the language was in any way akin to those of the surroimding black nations, and whether, on that ac- count, an already acquired acquaintance with any of the Hottentot dialects woidd render it easier for a Missionary to master one of the Negro or Kafir tongues.*

• I give here some extracts from Mr. "Wallmann's letter, dated Barmen, IStli April, 1850, whicb. was the only help of a grammatical or lexical nature then available for me in my study of this Nama translation of Luke's Gospel : —

" I transmit hereby Luke's Gospel in Namaqua, . . . which I can lend you, however, only for four weeks, as I have already previously promised it to some one else.

" Should your labours permit it, I wish to request you to make a little trial whether the Namaqua is somewhat related to the South African family of Languages. For the present a mere negative decision on this point is all that is wanted, and I shovild like to have very soon the opinion of some good philologist regarding it. Moffat

I had, however, at that time not the least idea of the results to which a knowledge of this language

states tliat when, lie gave specimens of Namaq.ua to a Syrian wlio came from Egypt, lie was told that he (the Syi-ian) had seen slaves in the market of Cairo who were of lighter colour than other Afiicans, and whose language resembled that of the Namaqua. MoiFat also says that some ancient authors have mentioned a nation in the interior of Africa who were very similar to the Hottentots. Moflfat seems himself, however, to ascribe little value to these accounts, for his guesses fall at once upon the Chinese. According to communications from our Mis- sionary Knudsen, the Namaqua language seems well formed. He mentions as personal pronouns : —

Tita saaz xyt> sada sako xy^^Ti

I thou he we you they

(sdts) i//eij)) i//eiku)

but to show the modifications which the pronouns undergo according to the gender, and whether the person (spoken to) is included or excluded (in the first person plural), the fol- lowing examples of inclusive or exclusive forms are given : —

" We are captains."

(incl.) Sake Jce l-aum-Jce') .^^ •■

(excl.) Sike ke kauauke J

(incl.) Sase ke kautase > ^

(excl.) Sise ke kautase J

(incl.) Sada ke tana-khoida'}

(excl.) Sida ke tana-khoida J

(incl.) Sakkom le kauaukJioma^) ^^^^ ^^^^^^i

(excl.) Sikhom ke kauaitkJwma J

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"would lead, me ; and being then mostly occupied with the study of the Setshuana and kindred languages — which seemed to ra.e of paramount interest for com- parative philology — I did not at first give undivided attention to the perusal of this curious volume. I remarked very soon, however, a striking similarity between the Hottentot signs of gender and those of the Coptic language ; but for some time I considered it as purely accidental, which may be seen from a letter of mine regarding this subject, published by Mr. "Wallmann, in " Berichten der Rheinischen Mis-

(incl.) Saam he ]cautama\ -, -, n (excl.) Siim he Jcautama J (incl.) Saam ke taim-k/ioima'} -, ■, (excl.) Siim ke tana-lchoima J

" The second person of the plural is said to have not more than half as many distinctions ; and the third person plural has only the following : —

X2/^u ke kauauga — mascul. xyte ke kautate — fem.

xyn

tana-khoina — com.

Xykha ke kauaukha — dual, mascul. xy''^<^ -^6 kautara — dual, fem. xyra ke tana-khoira — dual. com.

"Tou will therefore oblige me by looking into the Namaqua Luke, and by having the kindness to write me youi- opinion regarding it."

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sions-Gesellscliaft " (Reports of the Rhenisli Mission- ary Society, 1850, No. 24, if I am not mistaken in the number).

Soon, however, what were at first mere isolated facts, became links, in a chain of evidence, showing that all those Sexdenoting Languages which were then known to us in Africa, Asia, and Europe, are members of one large family, of which the primitive type has, in most respects, been best preserved to us in the Hottentot language.

It was even as early as the end of 1850 that I could write to Mr. Wallmann — " This language (the Hottentot) is to me at this moment of greater interest than any other. The facts, of which once before I have given you some account, have now so increased upon me, and ofier such strong analogies, that there is no fiu'ther doubt in my own mind that not only the Coptic but also the Semitic, and all other lan- guages of Africa (as Berber, the Galla dialect, &c., &c.) in which the distinction of the masculine and feminine gender pervades the whole grammar, are of common origin."

Part of the result of these researches was then pub- lished in my dissertation, " De Nominum Generibus Linguarimi African, Australis, Copticae, Semiticarum

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aliarumque Sexualium" (8vo., Bonn, Gth. August, 1851, vol. i., No. 1 of your Library).

I was at that time not aware — nor has it come to my knowledge till within the last few weeks — that on the 10th June, 1851, Dr. J. C. Adamsox, in com- municating to the Syro-Egyptian Society some obser- vations on the analysis of languages, with a special reference to those of South Africa, had stated *' That the signs of gender were almost identical in the Namaqua and the Egyptian, and the feminine affix might be considered as being the same in all three" * (Namaqua, Galla, and Old Egj^tian).

Another curious agreement on this point, by an apj)arently independent observer (Mr. J. R. Logan),!

• Report of tlie Correspondence and Paper read at the General Meeting of the Syro-Egyptian Society, Session of 1851 and 1852. Read at the Anniversary Meeting, held AprH 20th, 1852, 8vo. pp. 6, 8.

t " Ethnology of the Tndo-Pacific Islands." By J. R. Logan, Esq., Hon. Fellow of the Ethnological Society. Lan- guage, Part ii. " The Races and Languages of S.E. Asia, considered in relation to those of the Indo-Pacific Islands," Chapter v., sections i. to vi. [From the Journal of the In- dian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, June and December, 1853, to December, 1854.] Singapore : Printed by Jakob Baptist, 8vo., pp. 229, 294, sec. 6. The Semitico-African

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was pointed out to me by your Excellency. You also suggested this name of "Sexdenoting Languages." But it is superfluous for me to say any thing of what you have done for the advancement of African, as well as Australian and Poh-nesian, philology.

It has been justly remarked by our learned friend, Mr. Justice "Watermeyer, that the natural propen- sities of animals in all parts of the world being so much alike. Fables intended to portray them must also be expected to resemble each other greatly, even to their very details.

But we may well ask why it is that, so far as we know, the Kafir imagination seems not at all inclined to the formation of this class of fictitious tales, though they have otherwise a prolific Native literature of a more or less historic and legendary character. This contrast to what we find among the Hottentots ap- pears not to be accidental, but merely a natural con- sequence of that difierence of structure which dis- tinguishes these two classes of languages, embracing respectively the dialects of the Hottentots on the one

Languages, viz. : — 1. General Cliaracters, p. 229; 2. Egyptian, p. 248 ; 3. Hottentot, p. 248 ; 4. Sliemo-Hamitic, or Assyro- Berber, p. 259.

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hand, and those of the Kafirs and their kindred na- tions on the other ; in the former (the Hottentot), as in all other really Sexdenoting Languages, the grammatical divisions of the nouns into genders, which do not tally exactly with any distinction observed in nature, has been brought into a certain reference to the difference of sex ; and on that account this dis- tinction of sex seems in some way to extend even to inanimate beings, whereby a tendency to the per- sonification of impersonal objects is produced, which in itseK is likely to lead the mind towards ascribing reason and other himian attributes to irrational beings. This is the real orgin of almost all those poetical conceptions which we call Fables and Myths. Both are based on the personification of imper- sonal beings — the former by ascribing speech and reason to the lower animals, whilst the latter sub- stitute human-like agencies in explanation of celes- tial and other elementary phenomena in place of their real cause.

Mythology is, in its origin, most generally either a mere figure of speech or a poetical explanation suggested by the grammatical form or etjnnological meaning of words, indicating certain striking natural phenomena. In the primary stage of their produc-

tion, Myths may be supposed to have been always understood in their true original character ; and it is only when in the course of generations their real origin has been obscured, and they have become merely the petrified excrescences of a traditionary creed, that their apparent absurdity makes them at first sight almost inexplicable, particularly when found among nations of a high intelligence.

The humbler sisters of the Myths, the Fables based on the natural propensities of animals, are not obscured in their real character so easily as the former, and have, on that accoimt, more generally retained their simple usefulness as moral teachers ; so, though they may have preceded even M^-ths as to the date of their first conception, they yet outlive them as real and salutary elements of the best national literatures : not that Myths had not their own beneficial sphere in the education of mankind, as leading them on to higher abstract ideas, and even deeper religious thoughts, but their ver}'' power of exerting a much deeper in- fluence on the destinies of our race, made it essential that they should have a more transitory existence in the civilizing process of the Sexdenoting nations — who have to give up mythologies so soon as through them they have gained higher religious ideas — while

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Fables, whicli never claim so high a place among the elements of furthering the eliminating process of our species, remain always welcome to most classes of readers at certain periods of their intellectual deve- lopment.

Children, and also simple-minded grown-up people, whose taste has not been spoiled by the poison of over-exciting reading, will always be amused by the quaintly expressed moral lessons which they receive through every good Fable ; and the more thorough student of literature will also regard with pleasure these first innocent plays of awakening human imagi- nation. To all these the Hottentot Fables oifered here may not be unwelcome as a fresh store of original compositions, or even as old acquaintances who gain a new interest in different clothing and scenery.

To make these Hottentot Fables readable for the general public, a few slight omissions and alterations of what would otherwise have been too naked for the English eye were necessary, but they do not in any essential way affect the spirit of the Fables. Other- wise, the translation is faithful to the original, though not exactly literal.

It would of course be presumptuous to believe that

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we could here discuss full}' the originality or date of composition of these Fables, and all the many ques- tions involved therein.

The modem origin of some of the Fables, as, for instance, that of The Cock (12), Fish-Stealing (8), The Judgment of the Baboon (17), and The Curse of the Horse (30), is very evident ; others, e.g., The White Man and the Snake (o & 6), indicate clearly a European origin. Others, however, have strong claims to be regarded not merely as genuine products of the Hottentot mind, but even as portions of a tra- ditionary ^N'ative literature, anterior in its origin to the advent of Europeans.

That the latter is a true ^dew of the subject becomes perhaps the more conclusive by the inti- mate relations in which, among the Hottentots, Mj'ths still stand to Fables ; in fact, a true mytho- logy can hardly be said to exist among them ; for Myths (as that of The Origin of Death) are in reality as much Fables as Myths; but we may consider these as analogous to the first germs whence sprung those splendid m}i;hologies which have filled with deep devotional feelings the hearts of many millions among the most intelligent races of the earth.

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Tliis liiglier flight of the imaginative faculty which the Sexdenoting nations possess (through the stimulus of this personification of impersonal things, consequent upon the grammatical structure of their languages), and what it had been to them, be- comes the more evident if we compare their lite- rature with that of the Kafirs and other black tribes of South Africa.

As the grammatical structure of languages spoken by the latter does not in itself suggest personifica- tion, these nations are almost, as a matter of course, destitute of Myths as weU as Fables. Their literary efibrts are, as a general rule, restricted to narrating the doings of men in a more or less historical manner — whence we have a number of household tales, and portions of a fabulous history of these tribes and na- tions ; or their ancestor worship and belief in the supernatural give rise to horrible ghost stories and tales of witchcraft, which would be exciting if they were not generally told in svich a long-winded, prosy manner, as must make the best story lose its interest.

Of course for the comparative philologist, and for any one who takes an interest in observing the work- ing of the human mind in its most primitive stages,

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these pieces of Kafir and Negro native literature will also have tlieir own interest ; it is therefore to be hojjed that time and circiunstances may soon allow us to publish also the other portions of South African native literature extant in manuscript in your librar3\

Among these we have principally to mention, as new contributions (received after your departure), twenty-three pieces in o Tjd-herero, or the Damara language, as written down by natives themselves, copied by the Rev. J. Rath (Rhenish Missionary, for- merly in Damara Land, now at Sarepta Knils River), and accompanied with a German translation by him.*

• Ml*. Ratli's Manuscript consists of sixty-one pages, with double columns, foolscap folio. It contains the following pieces :—

1. The Spectre Sweethearts, pp. 1, 2.

2. The Lion Husbands, pp. 2, 5.

3. Tenacity of a Loving Mother's Care, pp. 5, 6.

4. The Girl who ran after her Father's Bird, pp. 6, 12.

5. The Handsome Girl, pp. 12, 15.

6. The Little Bushman Woman, pp. 17, 18.

7. Punishment of Imposition, pp. 19, 21.

8. The Spectre who Fell in Love with his Son's Wife,

pp. 22, 23.

9. The Lvmatic, p. 23.

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AmoBg tliese pieces tliere are seven ghost stories, four accounts of transformation of men or animals, eleven other liousehold tales, one legend, and one fable. This last piece (Ko. 11, pp. 27, 29) is probably of Hottentot origin. I have therefore thought it best to give it a place in this little book (No. 14), where it precedes that Hottentot Fable,to which its conclud-

10. The Girls who Escaped fi-om. the Hill Damai-as, pp.

24, 26.

11. Tlie Elephant and the Tortoise, pp. 27, 29.

12. The Two Wives, pp, 29, 33.

13. The Lion who took different Shapes, pp. 34, 35.

14. The Little Gii-1 left in the Well by her wicked Com-

panions, pp. 35, 38.

15. The Unreasonable ChUd to whom the Dog gave its

Deserts, pp. 39, 43.

16. Rntanga, p. 44.

17. The Ghost of the Man who was Killed by a Rhinoceros

in consequence of his Father's Curse, pp. 45, 47.

18. The Trials of Hambeka, a Spirit risen from the Dead,

pp. 47, 50.

19. The Little Gii-1 who was teased by an Insect, p. 51.

20. The same as 16 (Rutanga) p. 52.

21. Conjugal Love after Death, p. 53.

22. The Bad Katjungu and the Good Kahavundye, pp.

54, 57.

23. The Wife who went after her Husband, pp. 57, 59.

24. The Little Giii Mui-dered by the Hill Damara, pp.

59, 61.

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ing portions bear such a striking resemblance. It is not unlikely that the beginning of this Hottentot Fable of The Giraffe and the Tortoise is missing. It - may hare been similar to the beginning of the corres- ponding one in Damara. As far as it goes the Hot- tentot Fable is however evidently more original than the o Tyi-herero text. As a specimen of o Tyi- herero household tales, I have given Rath's fif- teenth piece, the story of The Unreasonable Child to whom the Dog gave its Deserts.

You will also approve of my having added the Zulu legend of the Origin of Death, which in its mixtixre of Fable and Myth, and even in several details of its composition, shows a great analogy to the Hottentot treatment of the same subject, of which I am able to give here four different versions.

A second version of two or three other fables, and of one legend, has also been given from one of the two important manuscripts in German, re- garding the Hottentots and their language, pre- pared for you by Mr. Elnudsen.* The same manu-

• The title of Mr. Knudsen's first Manuscript is, " Siid- africa : Das Hottentot -Yolk ; Kotizzen (Manuscript) H. C. Knudsen." 4to., p. 12. Its contents ai-e, Bushman Land,

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script supplied also a legend of The Origin of Dif- ference in Modes of Life between Hottentots and Bushmen, which we do not yet possess in the Hot- tentot language.

To make our available stock of Nama Hottentot literature quite complete, three fables and four tales

p. 3 ; tlie clifFerent kinds of Rain, p. 3 ; Bethany (in Great Namaqualand), p. 3 ; tlie Damara, p. 4 ; tlie Grassy Plain, p. 4; tlie Diseases, pp. 4, 5; Bii-dsnests, p. 5; Marriage and "Wedding among tlie Namaqua, p. 5 ; Extent of Autto- rity among the Namaqua, p. 5 ; Similarity with the Jewish manner of Thinking, Counting, Eating, Drinking, Praying, Mode of Speech, and manner of Reckoning Relationship, p. 6 ; Heitsi Eibip or Kabip, p. 7 ; Origin of the Modes of Life of the Namaqua and Bushmen, pp. 7, 8; Coming of Age among the Hottentots, p. 8; Names of Hottentot Tribes and their probable Etymology, pp. 8, 9; Are the Hottentots of Egyptian or Phoenician Origin ? p. 9 ; Are the Hottentots of Jewish or Moabitic Origia ? pp. 9, 10 ; Appendix, pp. 11, 12.

Mr. Knudsen's second Manuscript has the following title, " Stoff zu einer Grammatik in der Namaquasprache (Manuscript), H. C. Knudsen." 4to. pp. 29. After a few general introductory remarks, and a short explanation of the Hottentot Alphabet, Mr. Knudsen treats of the dif- ferent Parts of Speech : — I. Nouns, pp. 3, 4 ; II. Adjectives, pp. 4, 5 ; III. Pronouns, pp. 5, 10 ; lY. Numerals, p. 11 ; Y. Yerbs, pp. 12, 24 ; Interrogative Sentences, pp. 25, 26 ; Concluding Remarks, pp. 26, 29.

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have been taken from Sir James Alexander's " Expe- dition," &c., and inserted here, with only few insigni- ficant verbal alterations.

The " Songs of Praise," given as notes to some of the Fables in this volume, are merely intended as specimens of Hottentot poetry. They can hardly be expected to amuse or interest the general reader — at least, not in the form in whi(,'h they appear here, though a Longfellow might be able to render some of them in a way that would make them at- tractive.

In the same manner the materials contained in these Hottentot Fables might be worked out similarly to Goethe's "Eeinecke Fuchs ;" and we should hereby probably gain an epical composition, which, though not ranking so high as the latter poem, would yet, as regards the interest of its subject-matter, far ex- ceed Longfellow's " Hiawatha " in adaptation to the general taste.

How much Native productions gain when repre- sented skilfully and properly, your admirable work on " Poljmesian Mythology " has shown. But you had sterner and more important work on hand, and so I have had to do this without you. That it does not appear in a still more imperfect form, I owe

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maiiily to tlie help of one wlio naturally takes the greatest interest in all my pursuits.

In writing the last lines of this Preface, the interest which I feel for these Hottentot Fables is almost fading away before those rich treasures of your library which have just arrived from England ; and as all our present efforts are of course given to the proper set^pjig of these jewels of our library, I can merely send, with grateful acknowledgments, our most fer- vent wishes for your well-doing, and our sincere hope of seeing you, at no distant day, again in the midst of us.

Believe me,

My dear Sir George,

Yours most faithfully,

W. H. I. BLEEK.

Capetown, April, 1863.

I. JACKAL FABLES

1. THE LION'S DEFEAT.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Su- Gr. Grey's Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 19, 20.)

THE wild animals, it is said, were once assembled at the Lion's. When the Lion was asleep, the Jackal persuaded the little Fox* to twist a rope of ostrich sinews, in order to play the Lion a trick. They took ostrich sinews, twisted them, and fastened the rope to the Lion's tail, and the other end of the rope they tied to a shrub. When the Lion awoke, and saw that he was tied up, he became angrj^ and called the animals together. When they had assembled, he said (using this form of conjuration) —

• The Kttle Fox, in Nama the IKamap, a small kind of Jackal, who is a swift runner. The Jackal's name is IGirip. (The / is the dental and the .' the cerebral click ; vide Notes to Fables 23 and 27, pp. 47, 62.)

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" "Wliat child of his mother and father's love, Whose mother and father's love has tied me ?"

Then answered the animal to whom the question was first put —

" I, child of my mother and father's love, I, mother and father's love, I have not done it."

All answered the same ; but when he asked the little Fox, the little Fox said —

" I, child of my mother and father's love, I, mother and father's love, have tied thee !"

Then the Lion tore the rope made of sinews, and ran after the little Fox. But the Jackal said —

" My boy, thou son of the lean Mrs. Fox, thou wilt never be caught."

Truly the Lion was thus beaten in running b}' the little Fox.

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2. THE HUNT OF THE LION AND JACKAL.

(The original, in tlie Hottentot language, is in Sii' Gr. Grey's Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 18, 19.)

THE Lion and the Jackal, it is said, were one day lying in wait for elands. The Lion shot (with the bow) and missed, hut the Jackal hit and sang out, "Hah! Hah!" The Lion said, "No, you did not shoot an3'thing. It was I who hit." The Jackal answered, " Yea, my father, thou hast hit." Then they went home in order to return when the eland was dead, and cut it up. The Jackal, however, turned back, unknown to the Lion, hit his nose so that the blood ran on the spoor of the elands, and followed their track thus, in order to cheat the Lion. When he had gone some distance, he returned by another way to the dead eland, and creeping into its carcase, cut out all the fat.

Meanwhile the Lion followed the bloodstained spoor of the Jackal, thinking that it was elands' blood, and only when he had gone some distance did he find out that he had been deceived. He then returned on the

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Jackal's spoor, and reached the dead eland, where, finding the Jackal in its carcase, he seized him by his tail and drew him out with a swing.

The Lion upbraided the Jackal with these words : " Why do you cheat me ?" The Jackal answered : " IS'o, my father, I do not cheat you ; you may know it, I think, I prepared this fat for you, father." The Lion said : " Then take the fat and bring it to your mother " (the Lioness) ; and he gave him the lungs to take to his own wife and children.

When the Jackal arrived, he did not give the fat to the Lion's wife, but to his own wife and children ,• he gave, however, the lungs to the Lion's wife, and he pelted the Lion's little children with the lungs, saying :

" You children of the big- pawed one ! You big-pawed ones I "

He said to the Lioness, " I go to help my father " (the Lion) ; but he went quite away with his wife and children.

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(From a German original Manuscript in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, viz., H. C. Knudseu's " Notes on tlie Hottentots," pp. 11, 12.)

THE Lion and tlie Jackal went togetlier a-hunting. They shot with arrows. The Lion shot first, but his arrow fell short of its aim ; but the Jackal hit the game, and joyfidly cried out, " It has hit." The Lion looked at him with his two large eyes ; the Jackal, however, did not lose Lis coimtenance, but said, " No, Uncle, I mean to say that you have hit." Then they followed the game, and the Jackal passed the arrow of the Lion without drawing the latter' s attention to it. When they arrived at a cross-way, the Jackal said, "Dear Uncle, you are old and tired; stay here." The Jackal went then on a wrong track, beat his nose, and, in returning, let the blood drop from it like traces of game. "I could not find anything," he said, " but I met with traces of blood. You had better go yourself to look for it. In the meantime I shall go this other way." The Jackal soon found the killed animal, crept inside of it, and devoured the best por-

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tion ; but his tail remained outside, and wlien tlie Lion arrived, lie got hold of it, pulled the Jackal out, and threw him on the ground with these words : " You rascal ! " The Jackal rose quicldy again, complained of thorough handling, and asked, "What have I then now done, dear Uncle ? I was busy cutting out the best part." "jSTow let us go and fetch our wives," said the Lion ; but the Jackal en- treated his dear Uncle to remain at the place because he was old. The Jackal went then away, taldng with him two portions of the flesh, one for his o-\vn wife, but the best part for the wife of the Lion. When the Jackal arrived with the flesh, the children of the Lion saw him, began to jump, and clapping their hands, cried out, " There comes Uncle with flesh !" The Jackal threw, grumbKng, the worst portion to them, and said, " There, you brood of the big-eyed one !" Then he went to his own house and told his wife im- mediately to break up the house, and to go where the killed game was. The Lioness wished to do the same, but he forbade her, and said that the Lion would himself come to fetch her.

When the Jackal, with his wife and children, had arriA^ed in the neighbourhood of the killed animal, he ran into a thorn bush, scratched his face so that it bled, and thus made his appearance before the Lion,

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to whom lie said, "All! wliat a wife you have got. Look here, how she scratched my face when I told her that she should come with us. You must fetch her yourself; I cannot bring her." The Lion went home very angry. Then the Jackal said, " Quick, let us build a tower." They heaped stone upon stone, stone upon stone^ stone upon stone ; and when it was high enough, everything was carried to the top of it. When the Jackal saw the Lion ap- proaching with his wife and children, he cried out to him, " Uncle, whilst you were away we have built a tower, in order to be better able to see game." " All right," said the Lion ; " but let me come up to you." " Certainly, dear Uncle ; but how will you manage to come up ? We must let down a thong for you." The Lion ties himself to the thong, and is drawn up ; but when he is nearly at the top the thong is cut by the Jackal, who exclaims, as if frightened, " Oh, how heavy you are. Uncle ! Go, wife, fetch me a new thong." (" An old one," he said aside to her.) The Lion is again drawn up, but comes of course down in the same manner. " ]N"o," said the Jackal, " that will never do ; you must, however, manage to come up high enough, so that you may get a mouth- ful at least. Then aloud he orders his wife to pre- pare a good piece, but aside he tells her to make a

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stone hot, and to cover it with fat. Then he drew up the Lion once more, and, complaining that he is very heavy to hold, he tells him to open his mouth, whereupon he throws the hot stone down his throat. When the Lion has devoured it, he entreats and requests him to run as quickly as possible to the water.

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(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grey's Libraiy, Gr. Krouleiu's Manuscript, pp. 7, 8.)

THE Jackal, it is said, married the Hyena, and carried off a cow belonging to ants, to slaughter her for the wedding ; and when he had slaughtered her, he put the cow- skin over his bride ; and when he had fixed a pole (on which to hang the flesh), he placed on the top of the pole (which was forked) the hearth for cooking, in order to cook upon it all sorts of delicious food. There came also the Lion to the spot, and wished to go up. The Jackal, therefore, asked his little daughter for a thong with which he could pvdl the Lion up, and he began to pull him up ; and when his face came near to the cooking-pot, he cut the thong in two, so that the Lion tumbled down. Then the Jackal upbraided his little daughter with these words : " Why do you give me such an old thong ?" And he added, " Give me a fresh thong." She gave him a new thong, and he pulled the Lion up again, and when his face came near the pot, which stood on

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the fire, he said, " Open your mouth." Then he put into his mouth a hot piece of quartz which had been boiled together with the fat, and the stone went down, burning his throat. Thus died the Lion.

There came also the ants running after the cow, and when the Jackal saw them he fled. Then they beat the bride in her brookaross dress. The Hyena, believing that it was the Jackal, said —

" You ta-^ni}^ rogue ! have you not plaj^ed at beating long enough P Have you no more loving game than this ?"

But when she had bitten a hole through the cow- skin, she saw that they were other people ; then she fled, falling here and there, yet she made her escape.

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5. THE WHITE MAN AND THE SNAKE.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, Gr. Kriinlein's Manuscript, pp. 5, 6.)

A White Man, it is said, met a Snake upon wliom a large stone had fallen and covered her, so that she could not rise. The White Man lifted the stone off the Snake, but when he had done so, she wanted to bite him. The White Man said, " Stop ! let us both go first to some wise people." They went to the Hyena, and the White Man asked him, "Is it right that the Snake should want to bite me, though I helped her, when she lay imder a stone and could not rise ?"

The Hyena (who thought he would get his share of the White Man's body) said : " If you were bitten what would it matter ? "

Then the Snake wanted to bite him, but the White Man said again : " Wait a little, and let us go to other wise people, that I may hear whether this is right."

They went and met the Jackal. The White Man said to the Jackal : " Is it right that the Snake wants

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to bite me, though I lifted up tlie stone wliicli lay upon her ?"

The Jackal replied: "I do not believe that the Snake coidd be covered by a stone and could not rise. Unless I saw it with my two eyes, I wovdd not believe it. Therefore, come let us go and see at the place where you say it happened whether it can be true."

They went, and arrived at the place where it had happened. The Jackal said: "Snake, lie dovvoi, and let thyself be covered."

The Snake did so, and the "WTiite Man covered her with the stone ; but although she exerted herself very much, she coidd not rise. Then the White Man wanted again to release the Snake, but the Jackal in- terfered, and said: "Do not lift the stone. She wanted to bite you ; therefore she may rise by her- seK."

Then they both went away and left the Snake under the stone.

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6. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME EABLE.

(From a Grerman original Manuscript in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," p. 11.)

A DuTCioL\N was walking by Hmself, and saw a Snake lying under a large stone. The Snake implored liis help ; but when she had become free, she said, "Now I shall eat you."

The Man answered, "That is not right. Let us first go to the Hare."

When the Hare had heard the affair, he said, " It is right." "No," said the Man, "let us ask the Hyena."

The Hyena declared the same, saying, " It is right."

" Now let us at last ask the Jackal," said the Man in his despair.

The Jackal answered very slowly and considerately, doubting the whole affair, and demanding to see first the place, and whether the Man was able to lift the stone. The Snake lay down, and the Man, to prove the truth of his account, put the stone again over her.

When she was fast, the Jackal said, " Now let her lie there."

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7. CLOUD-EATI>TG.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. G-rev's Library, G. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 30, 31.)

THE HYENA.

Thou -vvho niakest thj escape from the tiumilt !

Thou wide, roomy tree !

Thou who gettest thy share (though with trouble !)

Thou cow who ai-t strained at the hocks ! *

Thou who hast a plump round knee !

Thou the nape of whose neck is clothed with hau- 1

Thou with the skin diipping as if half -tanned !

Thou vrho hast a round, distended neck !

Thou eater of the Namaqua,

Thou big-toothed one !

THE Jackal and the Hyena were together, it is said, when a white cloud rose. The Jackal ascended upon it, and ate of the cloud as if it were fat.

When he wanted to come down, he said to the Hyena, "My sister, sis I am going to di'ide with

• " "WTien the Hyena first starts, it appears to be lame on the hind legs, or gone in the loins, as one would say of a horse." — L. Layakd.

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thee, catcli me well." So she caught him, and broke his fall. Then she also went up and ate there, high up on the top of the cloud.

When she was satisfied, she said, " My greyish brother, now catch me well." The greyish rogue said to his friend, "My sister, I shall catch thee well. Come therefore down."

He held up his hailds, and she came down from the cloud, and when she was near, the Jackal cried out (painfully jumpiag to one side), "My sister, do not take it ill. Oh me ! oh me ! A thorn has pricked me, and sticks in me." Thus she fell down from above, and was sadly hurt.

Since that day, it is said, that the Hyena's left hind foot is shorter and smaller than the rio^ht one.

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8. FISH-STEALI!s^G.

(From Sir James E. Alexander's "Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa," toI. ii. pp. 246, 247.)

THE HYENA.

(Addressing her young ones, on her return from a marauding expedition, with regai-d to the pei-ils she had encountered).

The fire threatens,

The stone threatens.

The assegais threaten,

The guns threaten,

Yet you seek food from me.

My children.

Do I get anything easily ?

OXCE upon a time a Jackal, who lived on the borders of the colony, saw a waggon returning from the sea- side laden with fish. He tried to get into the waggon from behind, but he coidd not ; he then ran on be- fore, and lay in the road as if dead. The waggon came up to him, and the leader cried to the driver, " Here is a fine kaross for your wife ! "

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" Throw it into the waggon," said the driver, and the Jackal was thrown in.

The waggon travelled on through a moonlight night, and all the while the Jackal was throwing the fish out into the road ; he then jumped out himself, and se- cured a great prize. But a stupid old Hyena coming by, ate more than her share, for which the Jackal owed her a grudge ; so he said to her, " You can get plenty of fish, too, if you lie in the way of a wag- gon as I did, and keep quite still whatever happens."

" So !" mumbled the Hyena.

Accordingly, when the next waggon came from the sea, the Hyena stretched herself out in the road.

" What ugly thing is this ?" cried the leader, and kicked the Hyena. He then took a stick and thrashed her within an inch of her life. The Hyena, accord- ing to the directions of the Jackal, lay quiet as long as she could ; she then got uj) and hobbled ofi" to tell her misfortune to the Jackal, who pretended to com- fort her.

" AVliat a pity," said the Hyena, " that I have not such a handsome skin as you !"

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9. WHICH WAS THE THIEF ?

(From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discoveiy into the Interior of Africa," toI. ii. p. 250.)

A JACKAL and a Hyena -went and hired themselves to a man to be his servants. In the middle of the night the Jackal rose and smeared the Hyena's tail with some fat, and then ate all the rest of it which was in the house. In the morning the man missed his fat, and he immediately accused the Jackal of having eaten it.

" Look at the Hyena's tail," said the rogue, " and you will see who is the thief." The man did so, and then thrashed the Hyena till she was nearly dead.

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10. THE LION'S ILLNESS.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. G-rey's Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 29, 30.)

THE Lion, it is said, was ill, and they all went to see him in his suffering. But the Jackal did not go, ^cause the traces of the people who went to see him did not turn back. Thereupon, he was accused by the Hyena, who said, " Though / go to look, yet the Jackal does not want to come and look at the man's sufferings."

Then the Lion let the Hyena go, in order that she might catch the Jackal ; and she did so, and brought him.

The Lion asked the Jackal : " Why did you not come here to see me ?" The Jackal said, "Oh no ! when I heard that my uncle was so very ill, I went to the witch (doctor), to consult him, whether and what medicine would be good for my uncle against the pain. The doctor said to me, ' Gro and tell your uncle to take hold of the Hyena and draw off her skin, and put it on while it is still warm. Then he

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will recover.' The Hj^ena is one who does not care for my uncle's sufferings."

The Lion followed his advice, got hold of the Hyena, drew the skin over her ears, whilst she howled ynt\i all her might, and put it on.

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11. THE DOVE AND THE HERON.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sii' Gr. Grey's Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 13, 14.)

THE Jackal, it is said, came once to the Dove, who lived on the top of a rock, and said, " Give me one of your little children." The Dove answered : " I shall not do anything of the kind." The Jackal said " Give it me at once ! Otherwise, I shall fly up to you." Then she threw one down to him.

He came back another day, and demanded another little child, and she gave it to him. After the Jackal had gone, the Heron came, and asked, " Dove, why do you cry ?" The dove answered him : " The Jackal has taken away my little children ; it is for this that I cry." He asked her, " In what manner can he take them?" She answered him: " A\Tien he asked me I refused him ; but when he said, ' I shall at once fly up, therefore give it me,' I threw it down to him." The Heron said, " Are you such a fool as to give your children to the Jackals, who cannot fly ?" Then, with the admonition to give no more, he went away.

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The Jackal came again, and said, " Dove, give me a little child." The Dove refused, and told him that the Heron had told her that he coidd not fly up. The Jackal said, " I shall catch him."

So when the Heron came to the banks of the water, the Jackal asked him : " Brother Heron, when the wind comes from this side, how will you stand ?" He turned his neck towards him and said, " I stand thus, bending my neck on one side." The Jackal asked him again, " When a storm comes and when it rains, how do you stand ?" He said to him : " I stand thus, indeed, bending my neck down."

Then the Jackal beat him on his neck, and broke his neck in the middle.

Since that day the Heron's neck is bent.

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12. THE COCK.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, Or. Er5ulein's Manuscript, p. 29.)

THE Cock, it is said, was once overtaken by the Jackal and caught. The Cock said to the Jackal, " Please, pray first (before you kill me) as the white man does." The Jackal asked, " In what manner does he pray ? Tell me." " He folds his hands in praying," said the Cock. The Jackal folded his hands and prayed. Then the Cock spoke again: " You ought not to look about you as you do. You had better shut your eyes." He did so ; and the Cock flew away, upbraiding at the same time the Jackal with these words : " You rogue ! do you also pray?"

There sat the Jackal, speechless, because he had been outdone.

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13. THE LEOPAED AND THE RAM.

(From Sii" James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 247, 250.)

A LEOPARD was returning liome from hunting on one occasion, when he lighted on the kraal of a Ram. Now the Leopard had never seen a Ram before, and accordingly, approaching submissively, he said, "Grood day, friend ! what may your name be ?"

The other, in his gruff voice, and striking his breast with his forefoot, said, "I am a Ram. Who are you ? "

" A Leopard," answered the other, more dead than alive ; and then, taldng leave of the Ram, he ran home as fast as he could.

A Jackal lived at the same place as the Leopard did, and the latter going to him, said, " Friend Jackal, I am quite out of breath, and am half dead with fright, for I have just seen a terrible -looking fellow, with a large and thick head, and, on my asking him what his name was, he answered roughly, " I am a Ram !"

"What a foolish Leopard you are!" cried the

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Jackal, to let such, a nice piece of flesh, stand ! Why did you do so ? But we shall go to-morrow and eat it together ! "

Next day the two set off for the kraal of the Ram, and as they appeared over a hill, the Eam, who had turned out to look about him, and was calculating where he should that day crop a tender salad, saw them, and he immediately went to his wife, and said, " I fear this is our last day, for the Jackal and Leopard are both coming against us. "What shall we do ? "

" Don't be afraid," said the wife, " but take up the child in your arms ; go out with it, and pinch it to make it cry as if it were hungry." The Ram did so as the confederates came on.

No sooner did the Leopard cast his eyes on the Ram, than fear again took possession of him, and he wished to turn back. The Jackal had provided against this, and made the Leopard fast to himself with a leathern thong, and said, "Come on !" when the Ram cried in a loud voice, and pinching his child at the same time, "You have done well, friend Jackal, to have brought us the Leopard to eat, for you hear how my child is crying for food !"

On hearing these dreadful words, the Leopard, notwithstanding the entreaties of the Jackal to let him loose, set off in the greatest alarm, dragging the

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Jackal after him oyer hill and valley, through bushes and over rocks, and never stopped to look behind him till he brought back himself and the half-dead Jackal to his place again. And so the Earn escaped.

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THE SPRINGBOK (GAZELLE).

Woe is me ! He is one who goes "WTiere tis motlier wo\ild not let liim ! Wlio rolls oS (the rocks), Eollinc' himself together like a book.

14. THE ELEPHANT AND THE TOETOISE.

(The original, in the o Tyi-herero or Damara langiiage, is in the Library of Sh Gr. Grey, J. Kath's Manuscript, pp. 27, 29.)

TWO tilings, tlie Elephant and the Rain, had a dis- pute. The Elephant said, " If you say that you nourish me, in what way is it that you do so ?" The E-ain answered, " If you say that I do not nourish you, when I go away, will you not die ?" And the Rain then departed.

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rain for me ?" The Vulture said, " I \rill not cast lots."

Then the Elephant said to the Crow, " Cast lots !" who answered, " Give the things with which I may cast lots." The Crow cast lots and lain fell. It rained at the lagoons, but they dried up, and only one lagoon remained.

The Elephant went a-hunting. There was, however, the Tortoise, to whom the Elephant said, " Tortoise, remain at the water !" Thus the Tortoise was left behind when the Elephant went a-hunting.

There came the Giraffe, and said to the Tortoise, " Give me water !" The Tortoise answered, " The water belongs to the Elephant."

There came the Zebra, who said to the Tortoise, "Give me water!" The Tortoise answered, "The water belongs to the Elephant."

There came the Gemsbok, and said to the Tortoise, "Give me water!" The Tortoise answered, "The water belongs to the Elephant."

There came the Wildebeest, and said, " Give me water !" The Tortoise said, " The water belongs to the Elephant."

There came the Eoodebok, and said to the Tortoise, " Give me water !" The Tortoise answered, " The water belongs to the Elephant."

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There came the Springbok, and said to the Tortoise, "Give me water !" The Tortoise said, "The water belongs to the Elephant."

There came the Jackal, and said to the Tortoise^ " Give me water!" The Tortoise said, " The water belongs to the Elephant."

There came the Lion, and said, " Little Tortoise, give me water !" When the little Tortoise was about to say something, the Lion got hold of it and beat it ; the Lion drank of the water, and since then the ani- mals drink water.

"When the Elephant came back from the himting, he said, " Little Tortoise, is there water ?" The Tor- toise answered, "The animals have drunk the water." The Elephant asked, " Little Tortoise, shall I chew you or swallow you down ?" The little Tortoise said, "Swallow me, if you please;" and the Elephant swallowed it whole.

After the Elephant had swallowed the little Tor- toise, and it had entered his body, it tore oif his liver, heart, and kidneys. The Elephant said, "Little Tor- toise, you kill me."

So the Elephant died ; but the little Tortoise came out of his dead body, and went wherever it liked.

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15. THE GIRAFFE AND THE TORTOISE.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 5.)

THE GIRAFFE.

Thou who descendest rivei* by river,** Thou burnt thombush {^aro) ! Thou blue one,*

Who appearest like a distant thomMll full of people sitting down.

THE GirafFe and the Tortoise, tliey say, met one day. The Giraffe said to the Tortoise, " At once I could trample you to death." The Tortoise, being afraid, remained silent. Then the Giraffe said, " At once I could swallow you." The Tortoise said, in answer to this, " Well, I just belong to the family of those whom it has always been customary to swallow." Then the Giraffe swallowed the Tortoise ; but when the latter was being gulped down, it stuck in the Giraffe's throat,

• " Because the Giraffe is said to give blue ashes when burnt." — Keonlein.

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and as the latter could not get it dowif, lie was choked to death.

When the Giraffe was dead, the Tortoise crawled out and went to the Crab (who is considered as the mother of the Tortoise), and told her what had hap- pened. Then the Crab said —

" The little Crab ! I coidd sprinkle it under its arm with boochoo,* The crooked-legged little one, I could sprinkle under its arm."

The Tortoise answered its mother and said —

" Have you not always sprinkled me. That you want to sprinkle me now ?"

Then they went and fed for a whole year on the remains of the Giraffe.

• In token of approval, according to a Hottentot custom.

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16. THE TOETOISES HUXTIXG THE OSTRICHES.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G. Kronlein's Manuscript, p. 8.)

ONE day, it is said, the Tortoises lield a council how they might hunt Ostriches, and they said, " Let us, on both sides, stand in rows near each other, and let one go to hunt the Ostriches, so that they must flee along- through the midst of us." They did so, and as they were many, the Ostriches were obliged to rim along through the midst of them. During this they did not move, but, remaining alwaj's in the same places, called each to the other, "Are you there?" and each one answered, " I am here." The Ostriches hearing this, ran so tremendously that they quite exhausted their strength, and fell down. Then the Tortoises assembled by-and-by at the place where the Ostriches had fallen, and devoured them.

III. BABOON FABLES

Heretse !

Heretse !

Thou thin-armed one,

Who hast thin hands !

Thou smooth bulrush mat,

Thou whose neck is bent.

Thou who art made so as to be lifted up (upon a tree),

Who liftest thyself tip.

Thou who wilt not die even behind that hill

Which is yet beyond those hills.

That lie on the other side of this far-distant hiU.*

17. THE JUDGMENT OF THE BABOON.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, of this little Namaqua- land Fable, is in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 33, 35.)

ONE day, it is said, the following story happened. The Mouse had torn the clothes of Itkler (the tailor),

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who then went to the Baboon, and accused the Mouse with these words : —

" In this manner I come to thee : — The Mouse has torn my clothes, but will not know anything of it, and accuses the Cat ; the Cat protests likewise her innocence, and says the Dog must have done it ; but the Dog denies it also, and declares the Wood has done it; and the Wood throws the blame on the Fire, and says, * The Fire did it ;' the Fire says, * / have not, the Water did it ;' the Water says, ' The Elephant tore the clothes ;' and the Elephant says,

• The Ant tore them.' Thus a dispute has arisen among them. Therefore I, Itkler, come to thee with this proposition : Assemble the people and try them, in order that I may get satisfaction."

Thus he spake, and the Baboon assembled them for trial. Then they made the same excuses which had been mentioned by Itkler, each one putting the blame upon the other.

So the Baboon did not see any other way of pimish- ing them, save through making them punish each other ; he therefore said —

" Mouse, give Itkler satisfaction."

The Mouse, however, pleaded not guilty. But the Baboon said, " Cat, bite the Mouse." She did so.

He then put the same question to the Cat, and when

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slie exculpated herself, tlie Baboon called to the Dog, " Here, bite the Cat."

In this manner the Baboon questioned them all, one after the other, but they each denied the charge. Then he addressed the following words to them, and said — "Wood, beat the Dog. Fire, burn the Wood. Water, quench the Fire. Elephant, drink the Water. Ant, bite the Elephant in his most tender parts." They did so, and since that day they cannot any longer agree with each other.

The Ant enters into the Elephant's most tender parts, and bites him.

The Elephant swaUows the Water. The Water quenches the Fire. The Fire consumes the Wood. The Wood beats the Dog. The Dog bites the Cat. And the Cat the Mouse. Through this judgment Itkler got satisfaction, and addressed the Baboon in the following manner: — " Yes ! Now I am content, since I have received satisfaction, and with all my heart I thank thee. Baboon, because thou hast exercised justice on my behalf, and given me redress."

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Then the Baboon said, " From to-day I will not any longer be called Jan, but Baboon shall be my name."

Since that time the Baboon walks on all fours, having probably lost the privilege of walking erect through this fooKsh judgment. (?)

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18. THE LION AND THE BABOON.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Su' Gr. Grey's Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 14, 15.)

THE BABOON.

Thou hollow-cheeked son

Of a hollow-cheeked one,

My hoUow-cheeked one !

Who hast two hip-bones,

High hip-bones, "With which thou sittest on the edge of the rock, Thou whose face appears Uke the edge of a rock.

THE Baboon, it is said, once worked bamboos, sitting on tbe edge of a precipice, and the Lion stole upon him. The Baboon, however, had fixed some round, glistening, eye-like plates on the back of his head. "When, therefore, the Lion crept upon him, he thought, when the Baboon was looking at him, that he sat with his back towards him, and crept with all his might upon him. When, however, the Baboon turned his back towards him, the Lion thought that he was seen, and hid himself. Thus, when the

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Baboon looked at him, he crept upon him. Whilst the Baboon did this, the Lion came close upon him. When he was near him the Baboon looked up, and the Lion continued to creep upon him. The Baboon said (aside), " Whilst I am looking at him he steals upon me, whilst my hollow eyes are on him."

When at last the Lion sprung at him, he lay (quicklj^) down upon his face, and the Lion jumped over him, falling down the precipice, and was dashed to pieces.

19. THE ZEBRA STALLION.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir Gr. Grej's Library, G-. Kronleiu's Manuscript, p. 17.)

THE ZEBRA.

Tlioii wlio art thrown at by the great (slieplierd) boys, Thou whose head the (kirrie's) throw misses !

Thou dappled fly,

Thou party-coloured one,

Who spiest for those,

That spy for thee !

Thou who, womanlike.

Art full of jealousy.

THE Baboons, it is said, used to disturb the Zebra Mares in drinking. But one of the Mares became the mother of a foal. The others then helped her to suckle (the yoimg stallion), that he might soon grow up.

When he was grown up, and they were in want of water, they brought him to the water. The Baboons,

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seeing this, came, as they formerly were used to do, into their way, and kept them from the water.

'V"hile the Mares stood thus, the Stallion stepped forward, and spoke to one of the Baboons, " Thou gum-eater's chUd !"

The Baboon said to the Stallion, " Please open thy mouth, that I may see what thou livest on." The Stallion opened his mouth, and it was milky.

Then the Stallion said to the Baboon, " Please open thy mouth also, that I may see." The Baboon did so, and there was some gum in it. But the Baboon quickly licked some milk off the Stallion's tongue. The Stallion on this became angry, took the Baboon by his shoulders, and pressed him upon a hot, flat rock. Since that day the Baboon has a bald place on his back.

The Baboon said, lamenting, "I, my mother's child, I, the gum-eater, am outdone by this milk-eater !"

THE ZEBRA.

Thou Ijari shrub {i. e., tough shrub, Dutch,

" critdorn "), , Thou who art of strong smell. Thou who rollest always in soft ground. Whose body retains the dust,

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Thou split kirrie of the slieplierd boys,

Thou split knob of a kirrie.

Thou who drivest away by thy neio-hing

The hunter who seeketh thee.

Thou who Grossest all rivers

As if they were but one.

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20. THE LOST CHILD.— [A Tale.]

(From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 23 1, 235.)

THE cliildren belonging to a kraal were pla}4ng at some little di.stance from tlie huts with bows and arrows ; in the evening they all returned home, save one, a boy of five or six years old, who lingered be- hind, and was soon surrounded by a troop of baboons, who carried him up a mountain.

The people turned out to recover the boy, and for days they himted after him in vain ; he was nowhere to be seen ; the baboons also had left the neighbour- hood.

A year after this had occurred, a mounted himter came to the kraal from a distance, and told the people that he had crossed at such a place the spoor of baboons, along with the footmarks of a child. The people went to the place which the hvmter had indi- cated, and they soon saw what they were in search of, ^'iz., the boy, sitting on a pianacle of rock, in com- pany -ndth a large baboon. The moment the people

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approached, the baboon took up the boy, and scam- pered off with him ; but, after a close pursuit, the boy was recovered. He seemed quite wild, and tried to run away to the baboons again ; however, he was brought back to the kraal, and when he recovered his speech, he said that the baboons had been very kind to him ; that they ate scorpions and spiders them- selves, but brought him roots, gum, and wild raisins, seeing that he did not touch the two first-named deli- cacies, and that they always allowed him to diink first at the waters.

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21. THE BABOOX SHEPHERD.— [A Tale.]

(From Sii' James E. Alexander's " Exjieclition of Discovery into the Interior of Afi-ica," vol. ii. pp. 229, 230.)

THE Namaquas say that, not long ago, a man had brought up a young Baboon, and had made it his shepherd. It remained by the flock all day in the field, and at night drove them home to the kraal, riding on the back of one of the goats, which brought up the rear. The Baboon had the milk of one goat allowed to it, and it sucked that one only, and guarded the milk of the others from the children. It also got a little meat from its master. It held the office ol' shepherd for twelve moons, and then was unfortu- nately killed in a tree by a Leopard.

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22. THE FLYING LION.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. Grey's Library, Gr. KrOnlein's Manuscript, pp. 3, 4.)

THE Lion, it is said, used once to fly, and at that time nothing coidd live before him. As he was im- willing that the bones of what he caught shoidd be broken into pieces, he made a pair of White Crows watch the bones, leaving them behind at the kraal whilst he went a-hunting. But one day the great Frog came there, broke the bones in pieces, and said, " Why can men and animals live no longer ?" And he added these words, " When he comes, tell him that I live at yonder pool ; if he wishes to see me, he must come there."

The Lion, lying in wait (for game), wanted to fly up, but found he could not fly. Then he got angry.

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thinking that at the kraal something was wrong, and returned home. When he arrived, he asked, " What have you done that I cannot fly ?" Then they an- swered and said, "Some one came here, broke the bones into pieces, and said, ' If he wants me, he may look for me at yonder pool !'" The Lion went, and arrived while the Frog was sitting at the water's edge, and he tried to creep stealthily upon him. When he was about to get hold of him, the Frog said, "Ho !" and, diving, went to the other side of the pool, and sat there. The Lion pm-sued him ; but as he could not catch him he returned home.

From that day, it is said, the Lion walked on his feet, and also began to creep upon (liis game) ; and the White Crows became entirely dumb since the day that they said, " Nothing can be said of that matter."

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23. THE LION WHO THOUGHT HIMSELF WISER THAN HIS MOTHER.

(Tlie original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. Grey's Library, G-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 31, 33.)

It is said that when the Lion and j gurikhoisip^ (the Only man), together with the Baboon, the Buffalo, and other friends, were playing one day at a certain game, there was a thunderstorm and rain at ±aro- xaams.-f The Lion and jgurikhoisip began to quarrel. "I shall run to the rain-field," said the Lion. jGurikhoisip said also, " I shall run to the rain-field." As neither would concede this to the other, they separated (angrily). After they had parted, the Lion went to tell his Mother those thmgs which they had both said.

• The / is the dental click, which is " somided by pressing the tip of the tongue against the front teeth of the upper jaw, and then suddenly and forcibly withdrawing it." —

TiNDALL.

t The ± is the palatal cHck, described ia note to Fable 24, p. 55, and x is the German cJi.

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His Mother said to him, " My Father ! that Man whose head is in a line with his shoulders and breast, who has pinching weapons, who keeps white dogs, who goes about wearing the tuft of a tiger's tail, be- ware of him !" The Lion, however, said, "Why need I be on my guard against those whom I know ?" The Lioness answered, " My Son, take care of him who has pinching weapons !" But the Lion would not follow his Mother's advice, and the same morning, when it was stOl pitch dark, he went to ^aroxaams, and laid himself in ambush. iGurikhoisip went also that morning to the same place. "When he had arrived he let his dogs drink, and then bathe. After they had finished they wallowed. Then also the man drank ; and, when he had done drinking, the Lion came out of the bush. The dogs surroxmded him, as his mother had foretold, and he was speared by Igurikhoisip. Just as he became aware that he was speared, the dogs drew him down agam. In this manner he grew faint. While he was in this state, Igurikhoisip said to the dogs, " Let him alone now, that he may go and be taught by his Mother." So the dogs let him go. They left him, and went home as he lay there. The same night ho walked towards home, but whilst he was on the way his strength failed him, and he lamented :

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" Mother ! take me up ! Grandmotlier ! take me up! Oh me ! Alas !" At the dawn of day his Mother heard his wailing, and said —

" My Son, this is the thing which I have told thee : —

Beware of the one who has pinching weapons.

Who wears a tiift of tiger's tail,

Of him who has white dogs !

Alas ! Thon son of her who is short-eared.

Thou, my short- eared child !

Son of her who eats raw flesh,

Thou flesh-devourer ;

Son of her whose nostrils are red from the

prey, Thou with blood-stained nostrils ! Son of her who drinks pit- water, Thou water-drinker !"

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24. THE LION WHO TOOK A WOMAN'S SHAPE.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, Gr. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 60, 65.)

SO!ME women, it is said, went out to seek roots and herbs and other wild food. On their way home they sat down and said, "Let us taste the food of the field." Now they found that the food picked by one of them was sweet, while that of the others was bitter. The latter said to each other, " Look here ! this woman's herbs are sweet." Then they said to the owner of the sweet food, " Throw it away and seek for other " — (sweet- tasted herbs being apparently impalatable to the Hot- tentot). So she threw away the food, and went to gather more. Wlien she had collected a sufficient supply, she returned to join the other women, but coidd not find them. She went therefore down to the river, where the Hare sat lading water, and said to him, "Hare, give me some water that I may drink." But he replied, " This is the cup out of which my tmcle (the Lion) and I alone may drink."

She asked again : " Hare, di'aw water for me that

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I may cbink." But the Hare made the same reply. Then she snatched the cup from him and drank, but he ran home to tell his uncle of the outrage which had been committed.

The Woman meanwhile replaced the cup and went away. After she had departed the Lion came down, and, seeing her in the distance, pursued her on the road. When she turned round and saw him coming, she sang in the following manner : —

" My mother, she would not let me seek herbs. Herbs of the field, food from the field. Hoo !"

When the Lion at last came up with the Woman, they hunted each other round a shrub. She wore many beads and arm-rings, and the Lion said, " Let me put them on !" So she lent them to him, but he afterwards refused to return them to her.

They then hunted each other again round the shrub, till the Lion fell down, and the Woman jmnped upon him, and kept him there. The Lion (uttering a form of conjuration) said :

" My Aunt ! it is morning, and time to rise ; Pray, rise from me ! "

She then rose from him, and they hunted again after each other round the shrub, till the Woman fell down,

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and the Lion jumped upon her. She then addressed him :

" My Uncle ! it is morning, and time to rise ; Pray, rise from me ! "

He rose, of course, and they hunted each other again, till the Lion fell a second time. "WTien she jumped upon him, he said :

" My Aunt ! it is morning, and time to rise ; Pray, rise from me !"

They rose again and himted after each other. The Woman at last fell down. But this time, when she repeated the above conjuration, the Lion said :

" He Kha ! Is it morning, and time to rise ?"

He then ate her, taking care, however, to leave her skin whole, which he put on, together with her dress and ornaments, so that he looked quite like a woman, and then went home to her kraal.

Wlien this counterfeit woman arrived, her little sister, crying, said, " My sister, pour some milk out for me." She answered, " I shall not pour j^ou out an3" Then the child addressed their Mother : " Mama, do pour out some for me." The Mother of the kraal said, " Go to your sister, and let her give

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it to you !" The little child said again to her sister, "Please, pour out for me !" She, however, repeated her refusal, saying, " I will not do it." Then the Mother of the kraal said to the little one, " I refused to let her (the elder sister) seek herbs in the field, and I do not know what may have happened ; go there- fore to the Hare, and ask him to pour out for you."

So the Hare gave her some milk ; but her elder sister said, " Come and share it with me." The little child then went to her sister with her bamboo (cup), and they both sucked the milk out of it. "Whilst they were doing this, some milk was spilt on the little one's hand, and the elder sister licked it up with her tongue, the roughness of which drew blood ; this, too, the Woman licked up.

The little child complained to her Mother : " Mama, sister pricks holes in me, and sucks the blood." The Mother said, "With what lion's nature your sister went the way that I forbade her, and returned, I do not know."

Now the cows arrived, and the elder sister cleansed the pails in order to milk them. But when she ap- proached the cows with a thong (in order to tie their fore-legs), they all refused to be milked by her.

The Hare said, " Why do not you stand before the cow?" She replied, "Hare, call your brother, and

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do you two stand before the cow." Her husband said, " TVTiat has come over her that the cows refuse her ? These are the same cows she always milks." The Mother (of the kraal) said, " "What has happened this evening ? These are cows which she always milks without assistance. '\Yhat can have affected her that she comes home as a woman with a lion's nature ?"

The elder daughter then said to her Mother, " I shall not milk the cows." With these words she sat down. The Mother said therefore to the Hare, " Bring me the bamboos, that I may milk. I do not know what has come over the girl."

So the Mother herself milked the cows, and when she had done so, the Hare brought the bamboos to the young wife's house, where her husband was, but she (the wife) did not give him (her husband) anything to eat. But when at night time she fell asleep, they saw some of the Lion's hair, which was hanging out where he had slijjped on the woman's skin, and they cried, " Yerily ! this is quite another being. It is for this reason that the cows refused to be milked."

Then the people of the kraal began to break up the hut in which the Lion lay asleep. When they took off the mats, they said (conjuring them), " If thou art favourably inclined to me, 0 mat, give the sound ^ sawa' " (meaning, making no noise).

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To the poles (on which the hut rested) they said, " If thou art favourably inclined to me, 0 pole, thou must give the sound ^gara."*

They addressed also the bamboos and the bed- skins in a similar manner.

Thus gradually and noiselessly they removed the hut and all its contents. Then they took bimches of grass, put them over the Lion, and lighting them, said, " If thou art favourably inclined to me, 0 fire, thou must flare up, ' hoo boo,' before thou comest to the heart."

So the fire flared up when it came towards the heart, and the heart of the "Woman jumped upon the ground. The Mother (of the kraal) picked it up, and put it into a calabash.

The Lion, from his place in the fire, said to the Mother (of the kraal), "How nicely I have eaten your daughter." The Woman answered, " You have also now a comfortable place !" * * *

Now the Woman took the first milk of as many cows as calved, and put it into the calabash where her daughter's heart was ; the calabash increased in size, and in proportion to this the girl grew again inside it.

• 4= Indicates tlie palatal click, wLicli is sounded by pressing the tip of , the tongue, with as flat a surface as possible, against the termination of the palate at the gums, and withdrawing it suddenly and forcibly.

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One day, when the Mother (of the kraal) -went out to fetch -n-ood, she said to the Hare, " By the time that I come back you must have everything nice and clean." But dming her Mother's absence, the girl crept out of the calabash, and put the hut in good order, as she had been used to do in former days, and said to the Hare, " When mother comes back and asks, ' Who has done these things ?' you must say, ' I, the Hare, did them.' " After she had done all, she hid herself on the stage.*

When the Mother (of the kraal) came home, she said, " Hare, who has done these things ? They look just as they used when my daughter did them." The Hare said, "I did the things." But the Mother would not believe it, and looked at the calabash. Seeing it was empty, she searched the stage and found her daughter. Then she embraced and kissed her, and from that day the girl stayed with her mother, and did everything as she was wont in former times ; but she now remained unmarried.

• The stage is ttat apparatus in the backgroiuid of the hut (built of mats) opposite the door, upon which the Hottentots hang their bamboos, bags of skins, and other things, and luider which the women generally keep their mats.

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25. A WOMAK TEANSFOEMED INTO A LION.

[A Tale.]

(From Sii- James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into tlie Interior of Africa," vol. ii. pp. 197, 198.)

ONCE upon a time a certain Hottentot was travelling in company with a Bushwoman, carrying a child on her back. They had proceeded some distance on their journey, when a troop of wild horses appeared, and the Man said to the Woman, " I am hxmgry ; and as I know you can turn yourself into a Lion, do so now, and catch us a wild horse, that we may eat."

The Woman answered, " You will be afraid."

" No, no," said the Man ; "I am afraid of djdng of hunger, but not of you."

WTiilst he was yet speaking, hair began to appear at the back of the Woman's neck ; her nails gradually assumed the appearance of claws, and her features altered. She sat down the child.

The Man, alarmed at the change, climbed a tree close by. The Woman glared at him fearfully, and going to one side, she threw off her skin petticoat, when

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a perfect Lion rushed into the plain. It bounded and crept among the bushes towards the ■wild horses, and springing on one of them, it fell, and the Lion lapped its blood. The Lion then came back to where the child was crying, and the man called from the tree, " Enough, enough ! don't hurt me. Put off your lion's shape, I'll never ask to see this again."

The Lion looked at him and growled. " I'll remain here till I die," said the 3Ian, " if you don't become a woman again." The mane and tail then began to disappear, the Lion went towards the bush where the skin petticoat lay ; it was slipped on, and the woman, in her proper shape, took up the child. The Man descended and partook of the horse's flesh, but never again asked the "Woman to catch game for him.

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26. THE LION AND THE BUSHMAN.

[A Tale.]

(From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discoveiy into the Interior of Africa," vol. ii. p. 51.)

A BUSHMAN was, on one occasion, following a troop of zebras, and had just succeeded in wounding one with his arrows, when a Lion sprang out from a thicket opposite, and showed every inclination to dis- pute the prize with him. The Bushman being near a convenient tree, threw down his arms, and climbed for safety to an upper branch. The Lion, allowing the wounded zebra to pass on, now turned his whole attention towards the Bushman, and walking round and rotmd the tree, he ever and anon growled and looked up at him. At length the Lion lay down at the foot of the tree, and kept watch all night. To- wards morning sleep overcame the hitherto wakeful Bushman, and he dreamt that he had fallen into the Lion's mouth. Starting from the effects of his dream, he lost his hold, and, falling from the branch, he

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alighted heavily on the Lion ; on which the monster, thus unexpectedly saluted, ran off with a loud roar, and the Bushman, also taking to his heels in a dif- ferent direction, escaped in safety.

V.

VARIOUS FABLES,

THE ELEPHANT.

Thou tall acacia fall of branches,

Thou ebony tree with leaves spread round about.

27. HOW A NAMA WOMAN OUTWITTED THE ELEPHANTS.

(Tlie original, in tlie Hottentot language, is in Sii- Gr. Grey's Library, Q-. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 1, 3.)

AN Elephant, it is said, was married to a Nama Hot- tentot woman, whose two brothers came to her secretly, because they were afraid of her husband. Then she went out as if to fetch wood, and putting them within the wood, she laid them on the stage.* Then she said, " Since I married into this kraal, has a wether been slaughtered also for me?" And her blind mother-

• Vide Note to Fable 24, p. 56.

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in-law answered, " Umph ! things are said by tlie wife of my eldest son, whicli she never said before."

Thereupon the Elephant, who had been in the field, arrived, and smelling something, rubbed against the house, "Ha," said his wife, "what I should not have done formerly, I do now. On what day did you slaughter a wether for me?" Then the mother-in- law said to him : " As she says things which she did not say (before), do it now."

In this manner a wether was slaughtered (for her), which she roasted whole, and then, in the same night (after supper), asked her mother-in-law the following questions: — "How do you breathe when you sleep the sleep of life ? (light sleep, half-conscious.) And how when you sleep the sleep of death ?" (deep sleep.)

Then the mother-in-law said, " Umph, an evening full of conversation ! When we sleep the sleep of death, we breathe thus : ' sid sili /' and when we sleep the sleep of life we breathe thus : ' Xou Idivaba ! Xou !dwaba!' "*

Thus the wife made ever^-thing right whilst they fell asleep. Then she listened to their snoring, and

• X is the German ch, and .' the cerebral click of the Hottentot language, which is " sounded by sending up the tip of the tongue against the roof of the palate, and with- di'awing it forcibly and suddenly." — Tindall.

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when they slept thus, sui mi, she rose and said to her two brothers, " The sleep of death is over them, let us make ready." They rose and went out, and she broke up the hut* (to carry away all that she could), and took the necessary things, and said, " That thing which makes any noise wills my death." So they kept altogether quiet.

When her two brothers had packed up, she went with them between the cattle, but she left at home one cow, one ewe, and one goat, and directed them, saying to the cow, " You must not low as if you were by yourself alone, if you do not wish for my death ;" and she taught the ewe and the goat the same.

Then they departed with all the other cattle, and those who were left behind lowed during the night as if they were manj^, and as they lowed as if they were still all there, the Elephant thought, " They are all there." But when he rose in the morning, he saw that his wife and all the cattle were gone. Taking his stick into his hands, he said to his mother, " If I fall the earth will tremble." With these words he followed them. When they saw him approaching, they ran fast to the side, against a piece of rock (at a

• Hottentot litits being merely made of skins stretched over a frame, are cari-ied about by tbe people in their wanderings.

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narrow spot), and slie said, " We are people, beliind whom a large (travelling) party comes. Stone of my ancestors ! divide thyself' for us." Then the rock divided itself, and when they had passed through it, it closed again (behind them).

Then came the Elephant, and said to the rock, " Stone of my ancestors ! divide thyself also for me." The rock di-ided itself again, but when he had entered, it closed upon him. Thus died the Elej)hant, and the earth trembled. The mother at her hut said then, " As my eldest son said, it has happened. The earth shakes."

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28. A BAD SISTER.

(The original, iu the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G. Kronlein's Manuscript, pp. 15, 16.)

COPPER and "Weather, it is said, were man and wife, and begat a daughter, who married amongst other people.

Her three brothers came to visit her ; and she did not know them (as such), though the people said, "Do not you see they are your brothers ?" She deter- mined to kill them at night. They had, however, a Guinea-fowl to watch them.

When the Copper- Weather relative crept near, in order to kill the men, the Guinea-fowl made a noise to put them on their guard. They were thus warned of the danger ; but afterwards they fell asleep again. Then she stole again upon them. The Guinea-fowl made a noise, but broke the rope by which it had been fastened, and ran home. She then killed her brothers. When the Guinea-fowl came near home it wept : —

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" The Copper-TVeatlier relative has killed her brothers ! Alas ! she has killed her brothers !"

The -vrife heard it, and said to her husband —

" Do not you hear what the bird weeps for ? You who sit here upon the ground working bamboos."

The man said, " Come and turn yourself into a mighty thunderstorm, and I will be a strong wind."

So they transformed themselves accordingly, and when they came near to the kraal (where their sons had been killed), they combined and became a fire, and as a fiery rain they burnt the kraal and all its inhabitants.

VI. SUN AND MOON FABLES.

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29. WHY HAS THE JACKAL A LONG

BLACK STEIPE ON HIS BACK?

(The original, in tlie Hottentot language, is in Sir Q-. Grey's Library, Gr. KronleinJ^s Manuscript, p. 16.)

THE Sun, it is said, was one day on earth, and the men who were travelling saw him sitting by the way- iiiM<^"S''Hi. side, but passed him without notice. The Jackal, however, who came after them, and saw him also sitting, went to him and said, " Such a fine Kttle child is left behind by the men." He then took the Sun up, and put it into his awa-skin (on his back). When it burnt him, he said, " Get down," and shook himself ; but the Sun stuck fast to his back, and burnt the Jackal's back black from that day.

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30. THE HORSE CUESED BY THE SUN.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, of tliis little Nama- qualaud Fable, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G. Kronleiu's Manuscript, p. 53.)

IT is said that once the Sun was on earth, and caught the Horse to ride it. But it was unable to bear his weight, and therefore the Ox took the place of the Horse, and carried the Sun on its back. Since that time the Horse is cursed in these words, because it could not carrj^ the Sun's weight : —

" From to-day thou shaltf have a (certain) time of

dpng. This is thy curse, that thou hast a (certain) time of

d}-ing. And day and night shalt thou eat. But the desire of thy heart shall not be at rest, Though thou grazest till morning and agaia until

simset. Behold, this is the judgment which I pass upon thee,"

said the Sun.

Since that day the Horse's (certain) time of dying commenced.

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31. THE ORIGIN OF DEATH.

(The original, in the Hottentot langiiage, is in Sir Or. Grey's Library, G. Eronleiu's Manuscript, pp. 33, 34.)

THE Moon, it is said, sent once an Insect to Men, saying-, " Go thou to Men, and teU them, ' As I die, and djdng live, so ye shall also die, and dying live.' " The Insect started with the message, but whilst on his way was overtaken by the Hare, who asked : " On what errand art thou bound ?" The Insect answered : "I am sent by the Moon to Men, to tell them that as she dies, and dying lives, they also shall die, and dying live." The Hare said, " As thou art an awkward runner, let me go " (to take the message). "With these words he ran off, and when he reached Men, he said, " I am sent by the Moon to tell you, * As I die, and dying perish, in the same manner ye shall also die and come wholly to an end.' " Then the Hare returned to the Moon, and told her what he had said to Men. The Moon reproached him angrily, saying, " Barest thou tell

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the people a thing which I have not said ?" With these words she took up a piece of wood, and struck him on the nose. Since that day the Hare's nose is sHt.

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32. ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME FABLE.

(From H. C. Knudsen's " Gross-Namaqualand," 12mo., Bai-men, 1848, pp. 27, 28.)

THE Moon dies, and rises to life again. The Moon said to the Hare, " Go thou to Men, and tell them,

• Like as I die and rise to life again, so you also shall die and rise to life again.' " The Hare went to the Men, and said, " Like as I die and do not rise to life again, so j'ou shall also die, and not rise to life again.' When he returned, the Moon asked him, " What hast thou said ?" " I have told them, * Like as I die and do not rise to life again, so you shall also die and not rise to life again.' " " What," said the Moon, " hast thou said that ?" And she took a stick and beat the Hare on his mouth, which was slit by the blow. The Hare fied, and is still fleeing."*

• "We are now angry witli tlie Hare," say the old Namaqua, "because lie brought such a bad message, and therefore we dislike to eat his flesh." — Knudsen.

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33. A THIRD YERSIOy OF THE SAME FABLE.

(From an original Manuscript in English, by Mr. Jolm Priestley, in Sir G. Gi-ey's Library.)

THE Moon, on one occasion, sent the Hare to the earth to infoi-m Men that as she (the Moon) died away and rose again, so mankind should die and rise again. Instead, however, of delivering this message as given, the Hare, either out of forgetfulness or malice, told mankind that as the Moon rose and died away, so Man should die and rise no more. The Hare, having retui'uod to the Moon, was questioned as to the message delivered, and ttie Moon, having heard the true state of the case, became so enraged with him that she took up a hatchet to split his head ; falling short, however, of that, the hatchet fell upon the upper lip of the Hare, and cut it severely. Hence it is that we see the " Hare-lip." The Hare, being duly incensed at having received such treatment, raised his claws, and scratched the Moon's face ; and the dark parts which we now see on the surface of the Moon are the scars which she received on that occasion.

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34. A FOURTH YERSION OF THE SAME FABLE.

(From Sir James E. Alexander's " Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa," vol. i. p. 169.)

THE Moon, they say, wished to send a message to Men, and the Hare said that he would take it. " Hun, then," said the Moon, " and tell Men that as I die and am renewed, so shall they also be renewed." But the Hare deceived Men, and said, " As I die and perish, so shall you also."*

• Old Namaquas will not tlierefore toucli Hare's flesh.; but the young men may partake of it ; that is, before the ceremony of making them men is performed, which, merely consists in slaughtering and eating an ox or a couple of sheep. — ^Alexander.

35. A ZULU VERSIOX OF THE LEGEND OF THE "OEIGIN OF DEATH."

(From Manuscript, "Zulu Legends," No. 214 of Sir Gr. Grey's Library, vol. i. part i. p. 107.)

GOD ( Unhilunkuln) arose from beneath (tlie seat of the spiritual world, according to the Zulu idea), and created in the beginning* men, animals, and all things. He then sent for the Chameleon, and said, " Go, Chame- leon, and tell Men that they shall not die." Tlie Chameleon went, but it walked slowly, and loitered on the way, eating of a shrub called Bukwebezane.

When it had been away some time, God sent the Salamander after it, ordering him to make haste and teU Men that they shoidd die. The Salamander went on his way with this message, outran the Chameleon, and, arri^-ing first where the Men were, told them that they must die.

• Ohlangeni. Vide Colenso's " Zulu-Englisli Dictionary." p. 179.

VII. HE IT SI EIBIP

AND OTHER LEGENDS.

36. HEITSI EIBIP.

(From a German original Manuscript in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," p. 7.)

HEITSI EIBIP, or Kabip, was a great and celebrated sorcerer among tlie Namaqua. He could tell secret tilings, and prophesy what was to happen afterwards. Once he was travelling with a great number of people, and an enemy pursued them. On arriving at some water he said, "My grandfather's father, open thyself that I may pass through, and close thy- self afterwards." So it took place as he had said, and they went safely through. Then their enemies tried to pass through the opening also, but when they were in the midst of it, it closed again upon them, and they perished.*

• Kmtdsen, who teard this legend from the Hottentot Petrus Friedrik, was afterwards informed that Seitsi Eibip

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Heitsi Kabip died several times, and came to life again. Wten tlie Hottentots pass one of his graves they throw a stone on it for good luck.*

Heitsi Eibip coidd take many different forms. Sometimes he appeared handsome, very handsome, or his hair grew long down to his shoidders ; at other times it was a sain short.

was not the person meant in this tale. It looks very much like the end of our 27th Fable, of the "Woman who outwitted the Elephants.

• Sir James E. Alexander, in his " Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa," vol. i. p. 166, speaking of the people at Wai-m Bath, or Nisbett Bath, says : — " These Namaquas thought that they came fi-om the East. In the country there is occasionally found (besides the common graves covered with a heap of stones) large heaps of stones, on which had been thrown a few bushes ; and if the Xama- quas are asked what these are, they say that Heije Eibib, their Great Father, is below the heap ; they do not know what he is like, or what he does ; they only imagine that he also came fi-om the East, and had plenty of sheep and goats ; and when they add a stone or branch to the heap, they mutter, ' Give us plenty of cattle.' "

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37. THE VICTOEY OF HEITSI EIBIP.

(From a G-erman original Manuscript in Sir Gr. Grey's Library, H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," p. 7.)

AT first they were two. One had made a large hole in the ground, and sat by it, and told passers-by to throw a stone at his forehead. The stone, however, rebounded and killed the person who had thrown it, so that he fell into the hole. At last Heitsi Eibip was told that in this manner many people died. So he arose and went to the man, who challenged Heitsi Eibip to throw (a stone) at him. The latter, however, declined, for he was too prudent ; but he drew the man's attention to something on one side, and while he turned roimd to look at it, Heitsi Eibip hit him behind the ear, so that he died and fell into his own hole. After that there was peace, and people lived happily.*

• Sir James Alexander, in liis " Expedition of Discovery into tlie Interior of Afi-ica," vol. ii. p. 250, states : — " On tlie 3rd of August tlie waggon went on to Aneip, or Wet Foot, and I went out of the way with Jan Buys, and two or three men, to see a hole, which was supposed to be inhabited by Heije Eiblh, and was the wonder of the country."

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38. AXOTHER YERSIO^^ OF THE SA^IE LEGEND.

(The original, in tlie Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G. Ki-onleia's Manuscript, p. 36.)

ALL men wlao came near to that hole were, it is said, pushed down into it by the ± Ga ^gorip* (the pusher into the hole), as he knew well where it lay. "Whilst he was thus employed, there came the Heiisi Eibip, called also Heigeip, and saw how the ±Ga ^gorip treated the people.

Then these two began to hunt each other roimd the hole, saying —

" Push the Heigeip down !" " Push the ±G« ±gorip down !" "Push the Heigeip down!" " Push the ±Gd ^gorip down !"

"With these words thej' himted each other round for some time ; but at last the Heigeip was pushed

• The ± is tlie palatal click, described in Note to Fable 24, p. 55 ; and indicates the nasal pronunciation of a syllable.

TEi: VICTORY OF HEITSI JEIBIP. "9

down. Then lie said to the hole, "Support me a little," and it did. Thus, being supported, he came out ; and they hunted each other again with the same words : —

" Push the Heigeip down !"

" Push the ± Ga ^gorip down !"

A second time the Heigeip was pushed down, and he spoke the same words : " Support me a little," and thus got out again.

Once more these two hunted after each other, till at last the ± Ga ^gorip was pushed down, and he came not up again. Since that day men breathed freely and had rest from their enemy, because he was van- quished.

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39. THE EAISIX-EATER.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G-. Grey's Library, G. Kronleiu's Manuscript, pp. 3i, 35.)

IT is said tliat wlien Heitsi Eibip was trarelling about witli his family, tliey came to a valley in which the raisin-tree was ripe, and he was there attacked by a severe illness. Then his young (second) wife said, " This brave one is taken ill on account of these raisins ; death is here at the place." The old man {Heitsi Eibip), however, told his son / Urisip* (the whitish one), " I shall not live, I feel it ; thou must, therefore, cover me when I am dead with soft stones." And he spoke further, " This is the thing which I order you to do : — ' Of the raisin-trees of this valley' ye shall not eat. For if ye eat of them I shall infect you, and ye Avill surely die in a similar way.' "

His young wife said, " He is taken ill on account of the raisins of this yalley. Let us bmy him quickly, and let us go."

• The .' is the cerebral click described in Note to Fable 27, p. 62.

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So lie died there, and was covered flatlj^ with soft stones according as he had commanded. Then they went away from him.

"When they had moved to another place, and were unpacking there, they heard always from the side whence they came a noise as of people eating raisins and sing-ino:. In this manner the eatinjj and sins'ins'

" I, father of lUrisip, Father of this unclean one, I, who had to eat these raisins, and died, And dying live."

The young wife perceived that the noise came from the side where the old man's grave was, and said, " ./ Urisip ! Go and look !" Then the son went to the old man's grave, where he saw traces which he recog- nised to be his father's footmarks, and returned home. Then the young wife said, " It is he alone ; therefore act thus : —

"Do so to the man who ate raisins on the windward

side, Take care of the wind that thou creepest upon him

from the leeward ; Then intercept him on his way to the grave,

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And -n-lien thou hast caught him, do not let him go."

He did accordingly, and they came between the grave and Heitsi Eibipyvho, when he saw this, jvmiped down from the raisin-trees, and ran quickly, but was caught at the grave. Then he said :

" Let me go ! For I am a man who has been dead that I may not infect you !" But the yoimg wife said, " Keep hold of the rogue !" So they brought him home, and from that day he was fresh and hale.

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40. OEIGIN OF THE DIFFERENCE IN MODES OF LIFE BETWEEN HOTTEN- TOTS AND BUSHMEN.

(From a G-erman original Manuscript in Sir Gr. G-rey's Library, H. C. Knudsen's " Notes on the Hottentots," pp. 7, 8.)

IN the beginning there were two. One was blind, the other was always hunting. This hunter found at last a hole in the earth, from which game proceeded, and killed the young. The blind man, feeling and smelling them, said, " They are not game, but cattle."

The bKnd man afterwards recovered his sight, and going with the hunter to this hole, saw that they were cows with their calves. He then quickly built a kraal (fence made of thorns) round them, and anointed himself, just as Hottentots (in their native state) are still wont to do.

When the other, who now with great trouble had to seek his game, came and saw this, he wanted to anoint himself also. "Look here!" said the other, " you must throw the ointment into the fire, and after- wards use it." He followed this advice, and the flames

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flaring up into his face, burnt him most miserably ; so that he was glad to make his escape. The other, however, called to him : " Here, take the kirri (a knobstick), and run to the hills, to hunt there for honey."

Hence sprung the race of Bushmen.

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VIII. HOUSEHOLD TALES.

41. THE LITTLE WISE WOMAN.

(The original, in the Hottentot language, is in Sir G. Grey's Library, G-. Kronleia's Manuscript, p. 53.)

A GIEL, it is said, went to seek for onions. As she arrived at ino place where they grew, she met with some men, one of whom was blind {i.e., half-blind, having only one eye). As she dug (for the onions) the men helped her, digging also. When her sack was fuU, they said to her, " Go, tell the other girls, that many of you may come." So she went home and told her companions, and early the next morning they started. But a little girl followed them. The other girls said, "Let the little girl go back." But her elder sister protested against this, saying, " She runs by herself, you need not put her into your awa-skin."

So they went all together, and having reached the onion- ground, began to dig. Now the little girl saw

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traces of feet, and said to the one wlio had guided tliem th-ither, ""Wonderful! whence so many traces ? "Were you not alone here ?" The other replied, " I walked about and looked out; therefore they must of course be many." The child, however, did not be- lieve that if the other girl had been alone the traces coxild be many, and felt uneasy ; for she was a wise little woman. From time to time she rose (from her work) and peeped about, and once, while doing this, foimd by chance an ant-eater's hole. Still further spying about, she perceived some men, but they did not see her. She then retiu-ned and continued dig- ging with the other girls, without, however, saying anything. But in the midst of their work she always rose and looked about her. So the others asked her, ""Why do you always spy about you, and leave off dio-o-ing? "What a girl!" But she continued her work in silence. "When she rose from it again, she saw the men approaching. As they drew near the One- eyed blew through a reed pipe the following air : —

" To'day there shall blood flow, blood flow, blood flow !"

The little girl understood what was blown on the reed. She said to the elder ones, whilst they were dancing, " Do you also understand the tune that is blown on the reed ?" But they only said, " "What a

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child she is !" So she mixed in the dance with the others ; but managed while so doing to tie her sister's caross-cloak to her own, and in this manner they danced on, till it became very noisy, and then they found an opportunity to slip away.

On their way out the little sister asked, " Do you understand the reed — I mean what is blown on it ?" She answered, "I do not understand it." Then the little girl explained to her that the tune on the reed said, " To-day blood shall flow !" "When they walked along, the little girl let her elder sister go first, and herself followed, walking backwards, and carefully stepping in her sister's traces, so that they thus left only one set of footmarks, and these going in a contrary direction. In this manner they arrived at the ant-eater's hole.

But the men killed all those girls who had remained dancing with them. When the eldest of those who had escaped heard their wailing, she said, " Alas, my sisters !" But the younger one answered her, " Do you think you would have lived if you had remained there ?"

Now "One-eye" was the first to miss the sisters, and said to the other men, " Where may the two hand- some girls be who danced with me ?" The others replied, " He lies. He has seen with his eye (satiri-

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cally meaning he had seen wrongly). But "One-eye" insisted that " two girls were truly missing." Then they went to find their spoor, but the traces had been rendered indistinct enough to puzzle them.

When the men arrived at the ant-eater's hole, they could not see that the footmarks went further, so they spied into the hole, but saw nothing. Then " One- eye " looked also, and he saw the girls, and cried, " There they sit." The others now looked again, but still saw nothing ; for the gii-ls had covered them- selves with cobwebs.

One of the men then took an assegai, and piercing through the upper part of the hole, hit the heel of the larger girl. But the little wise woman took hold of the assegai, and wiped off the blood. The elder sister was about to crj', but the little one warned her not.

When " One-eye " spied again, the little girl made big eyes at him. He said, "There she sits." The others looked too, but as they could see nothing they said (satirically), "He has only seen with his eye."

At last the men got thirsty, and said to " One-eye,'' " Stay you hero, and let us go to drink, and when we have returned you may go also."

When " One-eye " was left alone there, the little girl said (conjuring him) :

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" You dirty son of your father, Are you there ? Are you alone not thirsty ? Oh, you dirty child of your father ! Dirty child of your father !"

" I am indeed thirsty," said " One-eye," and went away.

Then the two girls came out of the hole, and the younger one took her elder sister on her back, and walked on. As they were going over the bare, tree- less plain, the men saw them, and said, " There they are, far off," and ran after them.

When they came near, the two girls turned them- selves into thorn trees, called " Wait-a-bit," and the beads which they wore became gum on the trees. The men then ate of the gum and fell asleep. Whilst they slept, the girls smeared gimi over the men's eyes and went away, leaving them lying in the sim.

The girls were already near their kraal, when " One-eye " avroke, and said : " Oh, the disgrace ! fie on thee ! Our eyes are smeared over ; fie on thee, my brother !"

Then they removed the gum from their eyes, and hunted after the girls ; but the latter reached home in safety, and told their parents what had happened.

Then all lamented greatly, but they remained quietlv at home, and did not search for the other girls.

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42. THE UNREASONABLE CHILD TO WHOM THE DOG GAVE ITS DESERTS;

OK, A RECEIPT FOR PUTTING ANY ONE TO SLEEP.

(The original, in the o Tyi-herero or Damara language, is in Sir G-. Grey's Library, J. Ratli's Manuscript, pp. 39, 43.)

THERE was a little girl who had an e'ingi (pro- nounced a-inghi, some kind of fruit). She said to her Mother, " Mother, why is it that you do not say, ' My first-born, give me the e'inr/i ?' Do I refuse it ?"

" Her Mother said, " My first-born, give me the e'ingi." She gave it to her and went awa}', and her Mother ate the e'ingi.

"When the child came back, she said, " Mother, give me my e'ingi ?" but her Mother answered, " I have eaten the e'ingi .'"

The child said, " Mother, how is it that you have eaten my e'ingi, which I plucked from our tree ?" The Mother then (to appease her) gave her a needle.

The little girl went away and found her Father sew- ing thongs with thorns ; so she said, " Father, how is it that you sew with thorns ? Why do not you say,

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' My first-born, give me your needle ?' Do I refuse ?" So her Father said, " My first-born, give me your needle." She gave it to him and went away for a while. Her Father commenced sewing, but the needle broke ; when, therefore, the child came back and said, " Father, give me my needle," he answered, "■ The needle is broken ;" but she complained about it, say- ing, " Father, how is it that you break my needle, which I got from Mother, who ate my e'ingi, which I had plucked from our tree ?" Her Father then gave her an axe.

Going farther on she met the lads who were in charge of the cattle. They were busy taking out honey, and in order to get at it they were obliged to cut down the trees with stones. She addressed them: " Our sons, how is it that you use stones in order to get at the honey ? "^^Tiy do not you say, ' Our first-born, give us the axe ?' Do I refuse, or what do I ?" They said, " Our first-born, give us the axe." So she gave it them, and went away for some time. The axe broke entirely. "When she came back she asked, "Where is the axe ? Please give it me." They answered, " The axe is broken." She then said, " How is it that you break my axe, which I had re- ceived from Father who had brokep my needle, which I got from Mother who had eaten my e'ingi, which I

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had plucked from our tree ?" But they gave her some honey (to comfort her).

She went her way again, and met a Kttle old woman, eating insects, to whom she said, " Little old woman, how is it that you eat insects? Why don't you say, * My first-born, give me honey ?' Do I refuse or not ?" Then the Kttle old woman asked, "My first-born, give me honey." She gave it her and went away ; but presently returning, said, " Little old woman, let me have my honey !" Now the old woman had managed to eat it all during her absence, so she answered, " Oh ! I have eaten the honey !" So the child complained, saying, "How is it that you eat my honey, which I received from the lads of our cattle, from our children who had broken my axe, which had been given me by Father who had broken my needle, which was a present from my Mother who had eaten up my e'ingi, that I had plucked from our tree ?"

The little old woman gave her food, and she went away. This time she came to the pheasants, who scratched the ground ; and she said, " Pheasants ! how is it that you scratch the ground ? Why do not you say, * First-born, give us food ?' Do I refuse, or what do I?" They said, "First-born, give." So she gave to them, and went away. When she came

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back and demanded her food again, they said, " "We have eaten the food." She asked, " How is it that you eat my food, which I had received from a little old woman who had eaten up my honey, that I had got from the lads of our cattle who had broken my axe, which had been given me by my Father who had broken my needle, which was a present from my Mother who had eaten my e'ingi, which I had plucked from our tree ?" The pheasants, flying up, pulled out each one a feather and threw them down to the little girl.

She then, walking along, met the children who watched the sheep. They were plucking out hairs from the sheep-skins. So she asked them, " How is it that you pull at these skins ? Why do not you say, 'First-born, give us the feathers?' Do I refuse, or what do I ?" They said, " First-born, give us the feathers." She gave them and went away, but all the feathers broke. When she retui'ned and said, " Give me my feathers," they answered, " The feathers are broken." Then she complained, " Do you break my feathers which I received from the pheasants who had eaten my food, which had been given me by a little old woman ?" They gave her some milk.

She went again on her way, and found their own

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handsome dog gnawing bones. She said, " Our dog, how is it that you gnaw these bones?" The dog answered, " Give me milk." She gave it him, and he drank it all. Then she said to the dog, "Give me back my milk." He said, " I drank it." She then repeated the same words which she had spoken so often before ; but the dog ran away, and when she pursued him, he scampered up a tree. She climbed up after him, but the dog jumped do^vn again on the other side. She wanted to do the same, but could not. Then she said, " Our dog, please help me down." He answered, " Why did you pursue me ?" and ran away lea^-ing her up the tree.

"That is enough," say the Damara.

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FIRST LESSONS IN THE MAORI LANGUAGE,

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Barlow. Il Grak Rifiuto, What it WAS, Who made it, and how fatal to Dante Allighieri. A dissertation on Verses 58 to 65 of the Third Canto of the Inferno. By H. C. Barlow, M.D., Author of ' ' Franoisca da Rimini, her Lament and Vindication"; " Lettera- tura Dantesca," etc., etc., etc. 8vo. Pp. 22, sewed, Is. lSf52.

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TRAND de Born. By H. C. Barlow, M.D. Svo. Pp. 35, sewed. Is. 1802. Barijstorft' (D.) a Key to Shaks- peare's Sonnets. Translated from the German by T. J. Graham. Svo.

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is handsomely got up, and will be found worthy

Master Oiclglass,' produced by the same pub- lishers."— Spectator.

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" The humour of these ridiculous adventures is thoroughly genuine, and very often quite ir- resistible. A more amusing volume, indeed, is rarely to be met with, while the notes in the Appendix display considerable erudition and research. In short, whoso would keep up the good old kindly practice of making Christmas presents to one's friends and relatives, may go far o field and never fall in with a gift sn accept- able as a copy of the ' Strange Surprising A d- ventares of the Venerable Gooroo Simple.'"— Allen's Indian Mail.

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ing through it very pleasant to peruse. — Illustrated London Ifetvs.

" The story is irresistibly funny, and is aided by fifty illustrations by Alfred Crowquill. The book is got up with that luxury of paper and

woodcuts. It is no less admirably got up. and beautifully bound, and it will be most acceptable to a large 2>ortion of the public."— Observer. Groves. John Grove.s. A Tale of the

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of the times of Albert Durer and his great bro- ther artists, have enabled the author to lay before us a forcibly-drawn and highly-finished picture of art and household life in that wonder- fully art-practising aud art-reverencing oldcity ofGermanv.-— -K/ns.

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power, and one or two of the characters arc con- ceived and executed with real genius."— .Pr»- sjiective Seview.

'• Both stories contain matter of thought and reflection which would set up a dozen common- place circulating-library productions." — l>a-

" It is not often now-a-days that two works of such a rare degree of excellence in their class are to be found in one volume ; it is rarerstill to find two works, each of which contains matter for two volumes, boimd up in these times in one cover." - Observer.

" The above is an extremely pleasing book. The story is written in the antiquated form of letters, but its simpli> ity and eood ta.ste redeem it from the tediousness anH appearance of egotism which generally attend that style of composition." — £c^>nomist. " Well written and interesting.— J5ai(» JVni«. " Two very pleasing and elegant novels. Some passages dis'play descriptive powers of a liigh order. — Britannia.

Heine. Selections from the Poetry OF Henrich Heine. Translated by John AcKERLos. 12mo. Pp. viii. and 66, stiff cover. 1854. Is.

Pictures of Travel. Translated

from the German of Henry Heine. Bv Charles G. Leland. Crown Svo., Pp. 472. 1856. 7s. 6d. Historical Sketches of tlie Old Painters. By the Author of " Three Experiments of Living," etc. Svo. sd. 2s. *That large class of readers who are not ac- customed to refer to the original sources of in- formation, will find in it interesting notices of men of whom they may have known little else than the names, and who are daily becoming more the subjects of our curiosity and admira- tion."—CAri'^tian Examiner. HorrockS. Zeno. a Tale of the Italian War, and other Poems. To which are added Translations from Modern German Poetry. By James D. HoRROCKS. 12mo. Pp. vii. and 286, cloth. 1854. 5s. Howitt. The DIisseidorf Artists' Album. T-wenty-seven superb Litho- tiut Illustrations, from Drawings by Achenbach, Hubner, Jord.an, Lessing, Leutze, Schadow, Tideraand, etc. With Contributions, original and translated, by Mary Howitt, Anne Mary Howitt, Francis Bennoch, etc. Edited by Mary Howitt. 4to, elegantly bound in cloth, ISs. ;or, in fancy leather binding, .£1 Is. Hunibolflt (Alex. Von). Letters to Varnhaoen Von Ense. Authorised English Translation, with Explanatory Notes, aud a full Index of Names. In 1 vol. Svo., handsomely bound in cloth, pri 12s.

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W. King. )2mo. Pp. 56, sewed. Is. 1853. liOS Cabin (The) ; or. The World

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cl. 1844. 2s. 6d. Massey (Gerald.) Havelock's March j

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cloth, price 5s.

" Among the bands of young poets who in our day have fed on the fiery wine of Festus, or beaten time to the music of ' Pippa Pas^es.' few have been so healthful and robust in the midst

of imitation as Mr. Massey 'Robert

Blaise ' is no less good ; and, indeed, all the sea pieces have the dash and saltness of the ocean in them. They well deserve to be read, and, if read, are sure to be admired. . . . Readers who find this vein of reading in their own humoiu:— and there must be many such— will get the volume for themselves. Mr. Massey's poetry shows growth. Some of the finest

may be found in this volume. August 17, 1861.

" The e-tception that we make is in favour of Gerald Massey. He has iu him many of the elements of a true poet." — Patriot, August 22, 1861.

" Gerald Massey has been heard of ere now as a poet. He has written verses with such touches of nature in them as reach the heart at once. Himselfa child of labour, he has felt the labourer's suflerings, and uttered the labourer's plaint ; but uttered in such tones as throughout the din of the mills were surely recognised as poetry."— r;<e Kation, September 21, 1861.

" Gerald Massey has a large and increasing public of his own. iHe is one of the most musical, and the most pure in thought, of all

and moon. Everybody can read Mr. Massey, and he is worthy of being read by everybody. His words flow with the freedom and im- petuosity of a cataract." — Xiw(/d'« Weekly, August 25, 1861.

Mayne. The Lost Friend. A Cri- mean Memory. And other Poems. By C'OLBODRN Mayne, Esq. 12mo. Pp. viii. and 134, cloth. 1857. 3s. 6d. Moi'iey. Sunrise in Italy, etc. Re- veries. By Henry Morley. 4to. Pp. 164, cloth. 1848. 7s. Od. Munch. William and Rachael Rus- sell ; A Tragedy, iu Five Acts. By Andre.\s Munch. Translated' from the Norwegian, and Published under the Special Sanction of the Poet. By John HeyligerBurt. 12mo. Pp. 126. London, 1862. Ss.6d. Munchausen (Baeon), ike Travels and Surprising Adventures of. With Thirty original Illustrations (Ten full- page coloured plates and twenty wood- cuts), by Alfred Crowquill. Crown 8vo. ornamental cover, richly gilt front and back, 7s. 6d.

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" A mos delightful book Very few-

know the name of the author. It was written by a German in England, during the last century, and published in the English language. His name was Kudolph Erich Raspe. We shall not soon look upon Ms like again."— Boston Post. Owl^Iass (Master Ttll), TJie Marvel- lotis Adventures and Rare Conceits of. Edited, with an Introduction, and a Critical and Bibliographical Appendix, by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, F.S.A., with six coloured full-page Illustra- tions, and twenty-six Woodcuts, from original designs by Alfred Chowquill. Price 10s. 6d., bound in embossed cloth, richly gilt, with appropriate design ; or neatly half-bound morocco, gilt top, uncut, Roxburgh style. " Tyll'sfame has gone abroad into all lands ; this, the narrative of his exploits, has been pub- lished in innumerable editions, even with all manner of learned glosses, and translated into Latin, English, French, Dutch. Polish, etc. We may say that to few mortals has it been granted to earn such a place in universal history as Tyll : for now, after five centuries, when Wallace's birthplace is unknown, even to the Scots, and the Admirable Crichton still more rapidly is grown a shadow, and Edward Long- shanks sleeps unregarded, save by a few anti- quarian English, Tyll's native village is pointed out with pride to the traveller, and his tombstone, with a sculptured pun on his name —namely, an Owl and a Glass, still stands, or pretends to stand, at Mollen, near Lilbeck, where, since 1350, his once nimble bones have been at rest."— TAomas Carlyle's Essays, vol. ii. pp. 287, '288-

" A book . for the antiquary, for the satirist, and the historian of satire ; for the boy who reads for udventure's sake ; for the grown per- son, loving every fiction that has a character in it. . . . Mr. Mackenzie's language is quaint, racy, and antique, without a tiresome stillness. The book, as it stands, is a welcome piece of English reading, with hardly a dry or tasteless morsel in it. We fancy that few Christmas books will be put forth more peculiar and cha- racteristic than this comely English version of the ' Adventttres of Tyll Owlglass.'" — Athenceuni.

" A volume of rare beauty, finely printed on tinted paper, and profusely adorned with chromo-lithographs and woodcuts in Alfred Crowquill's best manner. Wonderful has been the popularity of Tyll Eulenspiegel . ... surpassing even that of the * pilgrini's Pto- gress.*'^ — Spectator.

Preciosa; ATale. Fcp. 8vo. Pp.326, cloth, 7s. 6d. 1852.

" A bridgeless chasm seems to stand between us and the unexplored world of feeling. We do not hesitate to say that there are passages in it which, for the power of transporting the reader across the intervening depth, and of clothing in an intelligible form the dini creation of passion- ate imagination, have scarcely a rival in English prose." — Morning Chronicle.

" Marked by qualities wMch we are accus- tomed to associate with the maturity of a writer's powers." — Guardian

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is full of siglis and lovers' aspirations, with many charming fancies and poetic thoughts. It is Petrarch and Laura over again, and the numeroiis quotations from the Italian inter- spersed, together with images suggested by the passiouate melodies of the great composers, pretty clearly indicate the burden which runs

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execution we have the right to speak in terms of unqualified 'praise."— Weekly Dispatch.

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Proverbs and Sayings. Illustrated by Diisseldorf Artists. Twenty chromo- lithographic Plates, finished in the highest style of art. 4to,bds, gilt, 128. Read (Thomas Buchanan). Poems. Illustrated by Kenny Meadows. 12nio. cloth, 6s. Reade (Charles). The Cloister and THE Hearth ; a Taleof the .Middle Ages. In four volumes. Third edition. Vol.1., pp. 3<pO ; Vol. II., pp. 370 ; Vol. III., pp. 328; Vol. IV., pp. 43.5. £\ lis. Od.

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Love me Little, Love me

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three volumes, Svo. Vol. I., pp. 300 ; Vol. II., pp. 238; Vol. III., pp.232. £1 Is. Reynard the Fox ; after the Gem, an FtrsioH of Goche. By Thomas J. Ar- nold, Esq. " Fair jester's humour and ready wit Xeveroflend, though smartly they hit." With Seventy Illustrations, after the designs of Wilhelm Von Kaulbach. Royal Svo. Printed by Clay, on toned pajjer, and elegantly bound in em- bossed cloth, with appropriate design after Kaulbach ; richly tooled front and back. Price 16s. Best full morocco, same pattern, price 24s. ; or, ne:Uly half-bound morocco, gilt top, uncut edges, Roxburgh style, price ISs. " The translation of Mr. Arnold has been held more truly to represent the spirit of OOthe'a great poem than any other version of the legend.

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'■ Of all the numerous Christmas works which have been lately published, this is likely to be the most ac<*ptable, not only as regards the binding, the print, and the paper, which are excellent, but also because it is illustrated with Kaulbach's celebrated designs. "^CouritAowrH/,

Schefer. The Bi.^hop's Wife. ATale of the Pap,acy. Translated from the German of Leopold Schefer. By MR.S. J.R. Stodaut. !2mo. cloth, 2s. Cd.

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Stevens (Brook B.) Seasoning fob a Seasoner: or. The Xew Gradus ad Parnassum ; a Satire. Svo. Pp. 48. 3s.

Swanwlck. Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Translated -with Introductory Remarks. By Anna Swanwick. Svo. Pp. xvi. and 290, cloth. 1S40. 6s.

Tegner (F.) The Frithjof Saga ; a

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Whipple. Literature and Life. Lectures by E. P. Whipple, Author of " Essays and Reviews." Svo. Pp.114, sewed. 1851. la.

IrTilSon. The Village Pearl: A Domestic Poem. With Miscellaneous Pieces. By John Crauford Wilson. l'2mo. Pp. viii. and 140, cloth. 1852. 3s. 6d.

W'iiickelniann. The Hlstory of Ancient Akt among the Greeks. By John Winckelmann. From* the Ger- man, by G. H. Lodge. Beautifully Illustrated. Svo. Pp. viii. and 254, cloth, 12s. 1850. "That Winckelmann was well fitted for the

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ith, but never more so than when seen in the

garb of antiquity The work is of

■ no common order,' and a careful study of the great principles embodied in it must necessarily ti nd to form a pure, correct, and elevated taite. " —Eclectic Review.

" The work is throughout lucid, and free from the pedantry of technicality. Its clearness con- stitutes its gnat charm. It does not discuss anyone subject at great length, but aims at a general view of Art, with attention to its minute developments. It is, if we may use the phrase, a Grammar of Greek Art, a sine qua ium to all who wou" ■ ■ ■ ■ '

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*' Winckelmann is a stanfiard writer, to whom most students of art liave been more ur less in- debted. He possessed extensive information, a refined taste, and great zeal. His style is iilain, direct, and speeitie, so that you are never at a loss for his meaniuij. Some very good outlines, representing fine tyi)es of Ancient Greek Art, illustrate the text, and the volume is got up in a style worthy of its subject."— 5p<!<:«ittor.

" To all lovers of art, this volume will fur- nish the most necessary and safe guide in study- ing the pure principles of nature and beauty in

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** The mixture of the philosopher and aa-tist in Winckelmann'3 mind gave it at once an ele

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Wise, Captain Brand, nf tho " Centi- pede;" a Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies : His Loves and Exploits, together with some Account of the Sin- gular Manner in which he departed this Life. By Lieut. H. A. Wise, U.S.N. ^12mo. Pp. 304. 6s.

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ISeniscta. Travels of Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon : who, iu the latter end of the twelfth century, visited Poland, Russia, Little Tartary, the Crimea, Ar- menia, Assyria, Syria, the Holy Land, and Greece. Translated from the He- brew, and published, together with the original on opposite pages. By Dr. A. Benisch ; with Explanatory Notes, by the Translator and William F. Ains- WORTH, Esq., F.S.A., F.G.S., F.R.G.S. 12mo. pp. viii. and 106. 5s.

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Falkener (Edward). A Description of some Important Theatres and other Remains in Crete, from a MS. History of Caudia, by Onorio Belli, in 1580. Being a Supplement to the " Museum of Classical Antiquities." Illustrations and nine Plates. Pp. 32, royal8vo. cloth. 5s. 6d.

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Turkey, and their Destiny. Pp. 370, 8vo, cloth. 93.

Kohl. Travels in Canada, and

THROUGH THE STATES OF NEW YORK

AND Pennsylvania. By I. J. Kohl. Translated by Mas. Percy Sinnett. Revised by the Author. Two vols., post ivo. Pp. xiv. and 794, cloth, 2 Is.

Krapf. Travels, Researches, and Mis- sionary Labours, during an Eighteen Years' Kesidence ou the Eastern Coast of Africa. By the Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Krapf, late Missionary iu the service of the Church Missionary Society iu Eastern and Equatorial Africa; to which is prefixed a concise Account of Geogra- phical Discovery in Eastern Africa, up to the present time, by J. E. Raven- stein, F.R.G.S. In demy 8vo., with a Portrait, two Maps, and twelve Plates, price 21s., cloth.

" Dr. Krapf and his colleagues have largely contributed to the most important geograplUL-al discovery of modern times— namely, that the centre of Africa is not occupied, as was formerly thougkt, by a chain of mountains, but by a series of great inland lakes, some of which arehundreds of miles in length. Hardly any one discovery has thrown so much light on the formation of the earth's surface as this."— Samrda!/ Review.

" Dr. Krapf's work is superior in interest to to tlie well-known narrative of Motfatt; in some parts', it is equal iu novelty to the most attractive chapters of Barth and Livingstone. Dr. Krapf travels well, and writes as a traveller should write,andseldom claims any indulgence from the reader."— A themeum.

" Scarcely any pages in Livingstone exceed in interest some of Dr. Krapf s adventures. The whole volume, so full of interest, will well repay the most careful perusal."— Litarary Gazette.

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Hebrew AND English Lex- icon OF the Old Testament, including the Biblical Chaldee, from the Latin. By Edward Robinson. Fifth Edition. Svo, cloth. £1 5s.

SrKiAC.

Uhlemann'S SyriacGrammar. Trans- lated from the German by Enoch Hut- chinson. Svo, cloth. 18s.

Latin.

Ahn's (Dr. F.) New, Practical, and Easy Method of Learning the Latin T^an- guage. [In the Fress

Harkness (Albert, Ph. D.) Latin Ollendorff. Being a Progressive Ex- hibition of the Principles of the Latin Grammar. 12mo, cloth. 5s.

Greek.

Ahn'S (Dr. F.) New, Practical, and Easy Method of Learning the Greek Lan- guage. [/« the Press

Kendrick (AsahelC.) Greek Ollen- dorff. A Progressive Exhibition of the Principles of the Greek Grammar. 8vo, half calf. 6s.

Kiihner (Dr. Raph). Grammar op the Greek Language lor the use of High Schools and Colleges. Translated from the German by B. B. Edwards and S. H. Taylor. Fourth Edition. Svo, cloth. 10s. 6d.

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Kiiliner (Dr. Raph). An Elementaey

Grammar of the Greek Language.

Translated by Samuel H.Taylor. One

vol. Thirteenth edition. 8vo, cloth. 9s.

Modern Greek.

Felton (T>r. C. C.) Selections from Modern Greek Writers, in Prose and Poetry. With Notes. 8vo, cloth. 6s.

Sophocles (E. A.) Romaic or Modern Greek Grammar. 8vo, half-bound. 78. Gd.

Italian.

Ahn'S (Dr. F.) New, Practical, and Easy Method of Learning the Italian Lan- guage. Firsthand Second Course. One vol. ]2mo. 33. 6d.

Key to ditto. 12mo. Is.

milhouse (John). New English and Italian Pronouncino and Explana- tory Dictionary. Vol. I. English- Italian. Vol. II. Italian-English. Two vols, square 8vo, cloth, orange edges.

Dialoghi Inglesi ED Ita-

LIANT. 18mo, cloth. 28.

Camerini (E.) L'Eco Italiano ; a Practical Guide to Italian Conver- sation. With a Vocabulary. 12mo. cl, 4s. 6d.

German.

Ahn'.s(Dr.'F.) New, Practical, and Easy Method of Learning the German Lan- guage. First and Second Course. Bound in one vol., 12mo, cloth. 3s.

Practical Grammar of the

German Language (intended as a Se- quel to the foregoing Work), with a (jrammatical Index and a Glossary of all the German Words occurring in the Work, l-imo, cloth. 4s. Gd.

Key to ditto. 12mo, cloth.

Is. 6d.

— ■ Manual of German and

English Conversations, or Vade Mecum for English Travellers. 12mo, cloth. 2s. 6d.

Poetry of Germany. A

Selection from tho most celebrated Poets. 12mo. sewed. 3s.

Triibner'S Series op German Plays, FOR Students of the German Lan- ouage. With Grammatical and Ex- planatory Notes. By F. Weinmann, German Master to the Royal Institu- tion School, Liverpool, and G. Zimmer- mann, Teacher of Modern Lan- gu:ige3. No. I. Der Vetter. Comedy in three Acts, by Roderick Benedix. [In the Prus.

Oehlschlager'8 German-English and Engli.sh-German Pocket Diction- ary. With a Pronunciation of the German Part in English Characters. 34mo, roan. 43.

Wolfram (Ludwio.) The German Echo. A F.aithful Mirror of German Every-day Conversation. With a Vo- cabulary by Henry Skelton. 12mo, cloth. 3s.

French.

Ahn's (Dr. F.) New, Practical, and Easy Method of Leaiiiiug the French Lan- guage. In Two Courses, 12mo, sold separately, at Is. 6d. each.

The two Courses, in 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, price 3s.

Manual of French and

English Conversation. 12mo. cloth. 2s. Gd.

Le Bruil'8 (L.) Materials for Trans- l.\ting from English into French ; being a Short Essay on Translation, followed by a Graduated Selection in Prose and Verse, from the best English Authors. 12mo, cloth, price 4s.

Fruston (F. de La.) Echo Francjais. I A Practical Guide to French Conversa- tion. With Vocabulary. 12mo, cloth. ' 3s. i

Nugent'.s Improved French and Eng- ' LisH and English and French Pocket
Dictionary. 24mo, cloth. 3s. fid. \

Van Laun. Lemons Graduees de Tra- 1 bucTioN ET de Lecture ; or. Graduated | Lessons in Translation and Reading, with Biographical Sketches, Annota- , tionsou History, Geography, Synonyms i and Style, and a Dictionary of Words and Idioms. By Henry Van Laun. 12mo. Pp. vi. and 476. 6s. 1862.

Cornet (Julius). A Manual of Rus- sian AND English Conversation. 12mo. 33. 6d.

Reiff (Cn. Ph.) Little Manual of THE RU.SSIAN Language. 12mo, sewed, 28. 6d.

Dutch.

Aiin. A Concise Grammar op the Dutch Language ; with a Selection from the best Authors, in Prose and Poetry. By Dr. F. Ahn. Translated from the Tenth Original German Edi- tion, and remodelled for the use of En^^lish Students. Bv Henry Van Laun. 12mo. Pp. 170, cloth, 3s. 6d. Portuguese.

A Practical Grammar of Por- tu^ue^canil Enslisii, exhibiting in a Series of Exercises, in Double Translation, the Idiomatic Structure of both Languages, as now written and spoken. Adapted to Ollendorff's Sys- tem by the Rev. Alexander J. D. D'Or-sey, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Professor of the Eng- lish Language in that University. In one vol. 12mo, cloth, boards. 7s.

Truhner <£■ Co., 60, Paternoster Row.

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Colloquia.! Portuguese, or The

Words and Phrases of Every-Day LiFE. Compiled from Dictation and Couversatiou, for the use of English Tourists and Visitors in Portugal, The Brazils, Madeira, and the Azores. With a Brief Collection of Epistolary Phrases. Second edition, considerably enlarged and improved. In one vol. 12mo, cloth, boards. 33. 6d.

Spanish.

Ahn (Dr. F.) A New Practical and

Easy Method of Learning the Spa- nish Language. Post 8vo. [/ntlie Press

Key to ditto. Post 8vo.

sewed. [In the Press

Cadena (Maeiano Velasquez de laV As Easy Introduction to Spanish Conversation: containing all that is necessary to make a rapid progress in it ; particularly designed for those who have little time to study, or are their own instructors. ISmo. Pp.l60,cloth.23.

A New Spanish Reader;

consisting of Passages from the most approved Authors in Prose and Verse. With a copious Vocabulary. (Sequel to the Spanish Grammar xipou the Ollen- dorflf Method. 8vo. Fp.352,cloth. 6s. Bd.

A DiCTION.-iRY OF THE SPA- NISH and English Langu.4.ges. For the use of young Learners and Travellers. In Two Parts. I. Spanish-English; II. English-Spanish. Crown 8vo. Pp. 860, roan. lOs. 6d.

Cadena (Bamon Palenzuela y Juan DE la C). Metodo para aprender a

LEER, ESCRIBIR Y HAELAR EL InGLES,

segun el sistema de Ollendorff. Con un

tratado de Pronuuciacion al principio, y uu Ap^udice importante al fin, que sirve de complemeuto & la obra. Un tomo en 8vo. de 500 pSgina^. 12s.

Cadena. Clave al mismo. En 8to. 6s.

Hartzenbu.sch (J. E.) and I.,ein- niins; (H.) Eco de Madrid : a Prac- tical Guide to Spanish Conversation. Post Svo. Pp. 240, cloth. 5s.

Morentln (M. de). a Sketch on the Comparative Beauties of the French AND SPANLSii Languages. Part I., Svo, pp. 38, sewed. Is. 6d. Part II., Svo, pp. 60, sewed, 2s

Velasquez and Simonnc. A New

Method to Read, Write, and Speak the Spanish Language. Adapted to Olleudorflf's System. Post Svo. Pp.558, cloth. 6s.

Key to ditto. Post Svo. Pp.

174, cloth. 4s.

Atan's (Dr. F.) German Commercial Letter-Writer, with Explanatory In- troductions in English, and an Inde.x of Words in French and English. 12mo, cloth, price 4s. 6d.

French Commercial Let- ter-Writer, on the same Flan. 12mo, cloth, price 4s. 6d.

Spanish do. [/a (he Press

Italian do. [In tlie Press

liCvy (Matthias). The History of Shorthand Writing ; to which is ap- pended the System used by the Author, cr. Svo, cloth. 5s.

Taylor's System of Shorthand Writing. Edited by Mathias Levy. Crown Svo. Pp. 16, and three plates, stiff cover, Is. Cd. 1862.

Theology.

American BIMe Union. Revised Version op the Holt Scriptures, viz . : Book, of Job. The common English Version, the Hebrew Text, and the Revised Version. With an Introduc- tion and Notes. By T. J. Conant. 4to. Pp. XXX., and 166. 7s. 6d. Gospel by' Matthew. The Common English Version and the Received Greek Text ; with a Revised Vei-sion, and Critical and Philological Notes. By T. J. Conant, D.D. Pp. xl. and 172. With an Appendix on the Meaning and Use of Bap tizein. Pp. 106. 4to. 8s. Gospel according to Mark. Trans- lated from the Greek, on the Basis of the Common English Version, with Notes. 4to. Pp. VI. and 134. 5s.

Gospel by John. Ditto. 4to. Pp. xv-

and 172. 5s. Acts of the Apostles. Ditto. 4to.

Pp. IV. and 224. 6s. Epistle to the Ephesians. Ditto. 4to.

Pp. VI, and 40. 3s. 6d. Epistles of Paul to the Thessalo-

NiANs. Ditto. 4to. Pp. vin. and 74.

4s. fid. Epistles of Paul to Timothy and

Titus. Ditto. 4to. Pp. vi. and 78.

2s. 6d. Epistle of Paul to PHiLEMON.Ditto.4to.

sewed. Pp. 404. Is. 6d. 12mo. cloth, 2s. Epistle to the Hebrews. Pp. iv. and • 90. 4to. 4s. Second Epistle of Peter, Epistles of

John and Jude and the Revela- tion. Ditto. 4to. Pp.254. 5s.

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into the primitive meaning of the Anticlirist and Man of Sin ; and an ex- amination of the argument of the Fifteenth Chapter of Gibbon. By Sara S. Uesnell. 12mo. Pp. 130., cloth, 28. 6d. Hennell. An Essay on the Scepti- cal Tesdenct of Butler's "Axalooy." By Sara S. Hessell. 12mo. Pp. 66. in paper cover. Is.

Thoughts in Aid of Faith,

Beei!>ton. The Temporalities of the Established Church as they are and as they might be ; collected from authentic Public Records. By William Beestox. 8vo. pp. 36, sewed. 1850. Is.

Bible. The Holy Bible. First divi- sion the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses, according to the authorized i version, with >'ote.s, Critical, Practical, and Devotional. Edited by the Rev. Thomas Wilson, 51. A., of Corpus Christi College. Cambridge. 4to. Part I. pp. vi. and S4 ; part II. pp. 85 to 176; part III. pp. 177 to 275, sewed. 1853-i. each pt. 5s., the work comf)l. 20s.

Campbell. Kew Religious Thoughts. By Douglas Campbell. Post 8vo. Pp. xii. and 425, cloth. 1860. Ss. Cd.

Conant (T.J.,D.D.) The Meaning and Use of Baptizein Philologically AND Historically Investigated. 8vo. Pp. 164. 2s. 6d.

Confessions (The) of a Catholic Priest. Post 8vo. Pp. V. and 320, 1858. 73. 68.

Crosskey. A Defence of Kelioion. By Henry W. Crosskxy. Pp. 48. 12mo., sewed. Is. 1854.

FOXton. The Priesthood and the People. By Fp.ederick J. Foxton, A.B., Author of " Popular Christianity," etc. 8vo. sewed, price Is. Od.

Froude. The Book of Job. By J. A. Froude, M.A., late fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Reprinted from "The Westminster Review." Xew Series, No. VII., October, 1853. 8d.

Fulton. The Facts and Fallacies of THE Sabbath Question considered Sceiptcrally. By Henry Fulton. 12mo. Pp. 108, cloth, limp. 1868. Is. 6d.

Gerrlnus. The Mission of the Ger- man Catholics. By G. G. Gervinu.s, Professor of History in the University of Heidelberg. Translated from the German. Post 8vo., sewed, Is. 1846.

Giles. Hebrew Records. An Historical Enquiry concerning the Age, Author- ship, and Authenticity of the Old Testament. By the Rev. Dr. Giles, late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Second Edition. Svo. Pp. 366, cloth. 1853. 10s. 6d. j

Henncll The Early Christian an- | throu^'houtiVexquisiteiy gentle and refine^

TICIPATInN OF AN APPROACHING End OF " ' ' " "

the Would, and its bearing upon the Chanicter of Christianity as a Divine Revelation. Including an investigation j

Gathered chiefly from recent works in Theology and Philosophy. By Saba S. Hennell. Post 8vo. Pp. 427, cloth. IDs. 6d. HitCbCOCk (Edward, D D.. LL.D.). Religious Lectures on Pecoliab Phenomena of the Four Seasons. Delivered to the Students in Amiiurst College, in 1845-47-48-49. Pp. 72, 12mo., sewed. Is. Hunt. The Religion of the Heart. A Manual of Faith and Duty. By Leigh Hunt. Fcap. Svo. 6s. Professor Newman lias kindly permitted Mr. Chapman to print the following letter addressed to him : —

"Mr. Leigh Hunt's little book ha< lieen very acceptable to me. I think there is in it all that tenderness of wisdom which is the peculiar pos- session and honour of advanced years. I pre- sume he regards his b(x>k as only a contribution to the Church of the Future, and the Liturpieal part of it as a mere sample. I feel with him that we cannot afford to abandon the old prin- ciple of a 'public recognition of common reli- gious sentiments ;' and 1 rejoice that one like him has taken the lead in pomting out the direc- tion in which we must look.

(.Signed) F. W. Neitmas."

" To the class of thinkers who arc feelers also, to those whose soul is larger than mere logic can compass, and who habitually endeavour, on the wings of Imagination, to soar into regions which transcend reason, this beautiful book is ad- dressed. ... It cannot be read even as a book (and not accepting it as a ritual) without hu- manizing andf enlarging the reader's mind."— Leader.

" The ' Religion of the Heart' is a manual of aspiration, faith, and duty, conceived in the

t book to

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toned sensibility that shuns all contact with

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a tone of gentle kindliness, may let his heart Open to receive all that ijart (the main part) of Mr. Hunt's religion, which is, in truth, the purest Christianity."— £a:amt)ier.

Mann. A Few Thoughts for a Young Man. a Lecture delivered before the Boston Jlercautile Library Association, on its 29th Anniversary. By Horace Mann, First Secretary of the Massa- chusetts Board of Education. Second Edition. Pp. 66, 16mo., sewed, 6d.

Newman. A History of the He- brew Monarchy from the Administra- tion of Samuel to the Babylonish Captivity. By Francis William New- man, formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Author of "The Soul; its Sorrows and Aspirations," etc. Second Edition. 8s. 6d.

Parker. Ten Sermons on Religion. By Theodore Parker. Post 8vo. cloth. 8s.

COXTEXTS :

I. Of Piety, and the relation thereof to

Manly Life. n. Of Truth and the Intellect.

III. Of Justice and the Conscience.

IV. Of Love and the Affections.

V. Of Conscious Religion and the Soul.

VI. Of Conscious religion as a Source of

Strength.

VII. Of Conscious Religion as a Source of Joy.

VIII. Of the Culture of the Religious Powers.

IX. Of Conventional and Natural Sacraments.

X. Of Communion with God. " We teel that in borrowing largely from his (Parker's) pages to enrich our columns, we are earning the reader's gratitude."— icader.

Theism, Atheism, and the

Popular Theology. Sermons by Theo- dore Parker, author of " A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion," etc. A portrait of the author engraved on steel is prefi.xed. Price 9s.

The aim of this work is defined hy its author at the beginning of the first Discourse as follows: — " I propose to speak of Atheism, of the Popular Theo- logy, and of pure Theism. Of each first, as a Theory of the Universe, and then as a Principle of Practical Life ; first as Speculative Philosophy, then as Prac- tical Ethics." " To real thinkers and to the ministers of the

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, while

their repul: from the better conception of divine things, of

shown to arise, in natural development, the tran- quil security of religious trust, guidance, and comfort in all social duty, and the clear hope of the world to come."— Westminster Revk w.

Parker. Bread Cast upon the Wa- ters. By Sowers or Thought for the Futdre. With four Sermons by Theodore Parker. 12mo. Pp. 104, sewed, Is. 1860.

Theodore Parker's Ex-

perience as a Minister, with some account of his Early Life and Educa- tion for the Ministry. Third thousand, 12mo. Pp. SO, sewed, Is. 1860. The Public Function of

Woman. A Sermon preached at the Music Hall, March 27, 1853. By Theodore Parker. Post 8vo., sewed, Is. 1855.

PriaulX. Questiones Mosaic^e, or the First Part of the Book of Genesis, compared with the remains cf Ancient Religions. By Osmond De Beadvoir Priaulx. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Svo. Pp. vii. and 548, cloth. 1364. 12s.

Rilllcy (Henry J., Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Duties in Newton Theological Institute). Sacred Rheto- ric; or, Compcsition and Delivery of Sermons. To which ai'e added. Hints ON Extemporaneous Preaching. By Henry Ware, Jun., D.D. Pp. 234. 12mo., cloth, 2s. 6d.

Sinionides (Constantine, Ph. D.) Fac'-similes op Certain Portions of the Gospel of St.' Matthew, and op THE Epistles of St. James and St. JuDE, Written on Papyrus in the First Century, and preserved in the Egyptian Museum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., Liver- pool ; with a Portrait of St. Matthew, from a fresco Painting at Mount Athos. Edited and Illustrated, with Notes and Historical and Literary Prolegomena, containing confirmatory Fac-similes of the same portions of Holy Scripture, from Papyri and Parchment MSS. in the Monasteries of Mount Athos, of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, of St. Sabba, in Palestine, and other sources. Folio. £\ lls.ed.

Tayler. A Retrospect of the Reli- gious Life of England ; or, the Church, Puritanism, and Free Inquiry. By J. J. Tayler, B.A. New Revised Edi- tion. Large post Svo. 7s. 6d. " This wor js written in a chastely beautiful style, manifests extensive reading and careful research, is full of thought, and decidedly ori- ginal in its character It is marked also by the modesty which usually characterises true merit."

"Mr. Tayl ris actuated by no sectarian bias, and we heartily thank hitn tor this addition to our religious literature.'' — Westn>})iswr licvicw.

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national mind, described with the clearness and force of Mr. Tayler, furnish inexiaustible mate-

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rial for reflection. Mr. Tayler regards all parties in turn from an equitable [joint of view, is tole- rant towards intolerance, and admires zeal and excuses fanaticism wherever he sees honesty. Nay, he openly asserts tliat the religion of mere reason is not the religion to produce a practical eflect on a people ; and therefore regards his own class only as one element in a better princi- ple church. The clear and comprehensive grasp with which he marshals his facts, is even less admirable tlian the impartiality, nay, more than that, the general kindliness with which he re- flects upon them."— A*oniin«r.

Thorn. St. Paul'.s Eftstles to the CoRiNTHiA>-s; Au Attempt to convey their .Spirit and Significance. By the Rev. John- Hamiltox Thom. Post Svo. cloth. 7.S. "A volume of singularly free, suggestive, and

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Twenty-live Ycar.s' Conflict in the Cliurch, and it8 Remedy,

, 12ino. Pp. viii. and 70, sewed. 1855. Is. 6d.

Philosophy.

An Exposition of Spiritualism ;

comprising two Series of Letters, and a Review of the "Spiritual Magazine." Ko. 20. As pubUshed in the " Starand Dial " With Introduction, Notes, and Appendix. By Sceptio. 8vo. Pp.330, cloth, 68. Atkinson antl Martineau. Let- ters OS THE Laws of Max's Xature AND Developmext. Bv Hexrv George Atkinson. F.G.S., and Harriet Mar- tineau. Post Svo. Pp. xii. and 390, cloth. 1851. 58.

" Of the many remarkable facts related in this book we can say little now. What rather strikes us is the elevating influence of an ac- knowlcdL-ment of mmtery m anv form at all. In spite ofall that we have said, there is a tone in Mr. Atkinson's thoughts far above those of most of us who live in slavery to daily experience. The world is awfol to him— truth is sacred. However wildly he has wandered in search of it, truth is all for which he cares to live. If he is dogmatic, he is not vain : if he is drving up the fountain of life, yet to him life is holv. He docs not care for fame, for wealth, for rank, for reputation, for anything except to find truth and to live beautifully iiy it: and all this be- cause he feels the unknown and terrible forces which are busy at the warp and woof of the marvellous existence-"— i^rfis«-'s ilagazine.

** A book, from the reasonings and conclusions of which, we are bound to express our entire dissent, but to which it is impossible to deny the rare merit of strictest honesty of purpose, as an investigation into a subject of the highest im- portance, upon which the wisest of us is almost entirely ignorant, begun with a sincere desire to penetrate the mystery and ascertain the truth, pursued with a brave resolve to slirink from no results to which that inquiry might lead, and to state them, whatever reception they might have from the world."— Cridc.

"A curious and valuable contribution to psj'chological science, and we regard it with interest, as containing the best and fullest deve- lopment of the new theories of mesmerism, clairvoyance, and the kindred hvpothescs. The book is replete with profound reflections thrown out incidentally, is distinguished bv a peculiar elegance of stvlcand, in the hands of a calm and philosophical theologian mav ferve as a useful preiis of the most formidable difficulties he has to contend against in the present day."— Weekly

" The letters are remarkablefor the analytical powers whicli characterise them, and «-iIl he eagerly read by all those who appreciate the value of the assertion, that 'the proper study of mankind is man.' The range of reading which thev embody is no less extensive than the sin- cerity as well as depth of thought and earnest-

ness in the search atter truth, which are their principal features. Without affectation or pedantn.', faults arrived at by so easy a transi- tion, they are marked by simplicity "of diction, by an ease and grace of languat-e and expression that give to a subject, for the most iiart intricate and perplexing, an inexpressible charm."— Week-hj Dispatch.

Awas I Hind ; or, a Voice from the Ganges. Being a Solution of the true Source of Christianity. By an Indian Officer. Post Svo. Pp. xix. and 222, cloth, 5s. 1861. Baconi, Franciscl, Verulamien- sis Sermonf.s Fideles, sive interiora rerura, ad Latinam orationem emenda- tiorem revocavit pUilologus Latinus. 12rao. pp.xxvi. and 272. 1861. 3s. Channin^. SELF-CrLTiRE. ByWiL- I liam E. Chanxing. Post Svo. Pp. 56, I cloth. Is. 1844. Conite. The Catechism of Positht; Relioion. Translated from the French I of Augiiste Comte. By Richard I Coxoreve. 12mo. Pp. vi. and 428, I cloth, 6s. 6d. 1858. I — ^———- The Positive Philosophy j OF AuGCSTE CoMTE. Translated and Condensed by Harriet Martixeao. ! 2 vols. Large post Svo, cloth. 16s. ' •■ A work of profound science, marked with great acnteness of reasoning, and conspicuous for the highest attributes of intellectual power."— Edin'iurtjh Review.

"The 'Cours de Philosophic Positive' is at once a compendious cyclopa?dia of science anil an exhibition of scientihc method. It defines rigo- rously the characteristics of the several orders of phenomena with which the particular sciences are concerned, arranges them in an ascending scale of complexity and speciality, beginning witli mathematics and ending with social phy- sics or sociology, and assigns to each science Its proper raethod'in accordance with the nature of the phenomena to be investigated. . . . Because it is not merely a cyclonxdia of scientific facts, but an exhibition of the methods of human knowlcd^-e and of the relations between its dif- ferent branches, M. Comte calls his work philo- sophy : and because it limits itself to wliat can be proved, he terms it positive philosophy."— Spectntiir.

" The world at large has reason to be grateful to all concerned in this publication of the upii* mngnum of our century. . . . Miss Martineau has confined herself rigorously to the ta«k ot translating freelv and condensing the work, adding nothing of illustration or criticism, so that the reader has Comte's views presented aa

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Comte promulgated them. ... In the whole range of philosophy we know of no such success- ful abridgment."— icader.

"A wonderful monument of ratiocinative skill."— ^coteman.

doctrines,"— Economist. Cousin (Victor). Elemekts of Psy- chology : included in a Critical Exaini- iiation of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, and in additional pieces. Translated from the French, with an Introduction and Notes, by Caleb S. Henry, D.D. Fourth improved edition, revised according to the Author's last corrections. Crovfn Svo. Pp. 568. 1S61. cloth, 7s.

The Philosophy of Kant-

Lectures by Victor Cousin. Translated from the French To which is added, a Biographical and Critical Sketch of Kant's Life and Writings. By A. G. Henderson. Large post Svo, cloth. 9s. Duncanson. The Providence of God manifested in Natural Law. By John Duncanson, M.D. Post Svo. Pp. V. and 3.'i4, cloth. 1S61. Ts. Emerson. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. First Series, embodying the Corrections and Editions of the last American edition ; with an Introduc- tory Preface by Thomas Carlyle, re- printed, by permission, from the first English Edition. Post Svo. 2s.

Essays by Ralph Waldo

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On the Nature of the Scholar,

AND its Manifestations. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated from the German by William Smith. Second Edition. Post Svo. Pp. vii. and 131, cloth, 33. 1S48.

" With great satisfaction we welcome this first English translation of an author who occupies the most exalted position as a profotmd and original thinker; as an irresistible orator in the cause of what he believed to be the truth; as a thoroughly honest and heroic man. . . The appearance of any of his works in our language is, we believe, a perfect novelty. . . . These orations are admirably fitted for their purpose; so grand is the position taken by the lecturer, and so irresistible their eloquence."— JBia?7uner. " This work must inevitably arrest the atten- tion of the scientific physician, by the grand spirituality of its doctrmes, and the pure mora- lity it teaches. . . Shall we be presumptuous f we recommend these views to our professional

brethren ? or if we say to the enlightened, the thoughtful, the serious. This— if you be true schol.irs— is i/owr Vocation ? We know not a hi^'tier moralitv than this, or more noble priuci- ples than thcst: they are full of truth."— 23rt<i«7» and Foreiyn Medico- Chirurgical Review.

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I " We accept these lectures as a true and most I admirable delineation of the present age; and I on this ground alone we should bestow on them I our heartiest recommendation ; but it is because they teach us how we may rise above the age, I that we bestow on them our most emphatic praise.

** He makes us think, and perhaps more sub- limely than we have ever formerly thought, but it is only in order that we may the more nobly act.

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"' The Vocation of a Scholar .... is distinguished by the same high moral tone, and manly, vigorous expression ' which characterize all Fichte's works in the German, and is nothing lost in Mr. Smith's clear, unembarrassed, and thoroughly English translation."— i>owy/a5 Jer- rold^s Newspaper.

" We are glad to see this excellent translation of one of the best of Fichte's works presented to the public in a very neatform. . . . No class needs an earnest and sincere spirit more than the literary class : and therefore the ' Vocation of the Scholar ' the ' Guide of the Human Race,' written in Fichte's most earnest, most com- manding temper, will be welcomed in its English dress by public writers, and be bene- ficial to the cause of truth."— Eco7iomist.

The Vocation of Man. By

Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated from the German by William Smith. Post Svo. Pp. xii. and 198, cloth, 4s. 1848.

" In the progress of my present work, I have taken a deeper glance into religion than ever I did before. In me the emotions of the heart proceed only from perf'ect intellect ual clearness; it cannot be but the clearness I 'have now at- tained on this subject shall also take possession of my heart."— i^icA«e's Correspondence.

'"The Vocation of Man' is, as Fichte truly says, intelligible to all readers who are really able to understand a book at all; and as the liistory of the mind in its various phases of doubt, knowledge, and faith, it is of interest to all. A book of this stamp is sure to teach you much, because it excites thought. If it rouses you to combat his conclusions, it has done a good work; for in that very effort you are stirred

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" This is Fichte's mnst poimlar work, and ie everv way remarkable." — Atlajg.

" tt appears to us the boldest and most em- phatic attempt that has yet been made to ex- plain to man his restless and unconquerable de- sire to win the True and the EteTnaV—Sentinel. Fictate. The Way towards a Blessed Life ; or, the Doctrine of Religion. By Johavn Gottlieb Fichte. Translated by William Smith. Post 8vo. Pp. viii. and 221, cloth, 53. 1849.

Memoir of Johastj Gottlieb

Fichte. By Wflliam Smith. Second Edition. Post 8vo. Pp. 168, cloth, 4s. 1848.

" A Life of Fichte, full of nobleness

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of which is executed with great judgment and 6deiitv."— Prospective Jtevieui.

•MVe state Fichtc's character as it is known and admitted by men of all parties among the Germans.when we say that so robust an intel- lect.a soul so calm, so lofty, massive, and immo- veable, has not mingled in philosophical dis- cussion since the time of Luther .... Fichte's opinions may be true or false; but his character as a thinker can be slightly valued only by such as know it ill; and as a man.approved by action and suflfering, in his life and in his death, he ranks with a class of men who were common only in better ages than ours."— ,S(ale of German Literature, by Thomas Carlyle. Foxton. Popular Christianitt ; its Transition State, and Probable De- velopment. By Frederick J. Foxton, A.B., formerly of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Perpetual Curate of Stoke Prior and Docklovy, Herefordshire. Post 8vo. Pp ix. and 226, cloth. 1849. 53. " Few writers are bolder, but his manner Is singularly considerate towards the very opinions that he combats — his language singularly calm and measured. He is evidently a man who has his purpose sincerely at heart, and indulges in no writing <or effect. But what most distin- guishes him Irom many with whom he may be compared is, the positiveness of his doctrine. A prototype for his volume may be found in that of the American, Theodore Parker— the "Dis- course of Religion." There is a great coinci- dence in the train of ideas. Parker is more co- pious and eloquent, but Foxton is far more explicit, definite, and comprehensible in his meaning."— .Spec toi(or.

" He has a penetration into the spiritual de- sires and wants of the age possible only to one who partakes of them, and he has uttered the most prophetic fact of our religious condition, with a force of conviction, which itself gives confidence, that the fact is as he sees it. His iMiok appears to us to contain many just and profound views of the religious character of the present age, and its indications of progress. He often touches a deep and fruitful truth with a power and fulness that leave nothing to be <Xt- emd."— Prospective Review, Nov., 1849.

" It contains many passages that show a warm appreciation of the moral beauty of Christianity, written with considerable power."— /ngi/iVcr.

"... . with earnestness and eloquence."— Critic.

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Hlckok. A System of Moral Sctekcb. By Lawress P. Hickok, D.D., Author of " Rational Psychology." Royal Svo. Pp. viii. and 432, cloth. 1853. 128.

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What is Truth? PostSvo. Pp. 124, cloth. 1854. 38.

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Alphabetical Index.

Afghan (or Pushto).

Amharic.

Anglo-Saxon.

Arabic.

Arabic Ligatures.

Aramaic.

Archaic Charactera.

Armenian.

Assyrian Cimeiform.

Bengali.

BohL-mian (Czechian).

Bugis.

Burmese.

Canarese (or Cama- taca).

Chinese.

Coptic.

Croato-Glagolitic.

Cuflc.

Cyrillic (or Old .Sla- vonic).

Czechian (or Bohe- mian).

Danish.

Demotic.

Estrangelo.

Ethiopic.

Etruscan.

Georgian.

Gothic. Greek. Greek Ligatures.

Greek (Archaic). Gujerati (or Guze-

rattee). Hieratic. Hieroglyphics. Hebrew.

Hebrew (Archaic). Hebrew (Rabbinical). Hebrew (Judseo-Ger-

Hebrew(currenthand).

Huugarian.

Hlyrian.

Irish.

Italian (Old).

Japanese.

Javanese.

Lettish.

Mantshu.

Median Cuneiform.

Modern Greek (or

Romaic). Mongolian. Numidian. Old Slavonic (or

Cyrillic). Palmyrenian. Persian.

Persian Cuneiform. Phoeniciau, Polish.

Pushto (or Afghan). Romaic (or Modern

Greek).

Russian Syriac.

Runes. Tamil.

Samaritan. Telugu.

Sanscrit. Tibetan.

Seriian. Turkish.

Slavonic (Old). Wallachian. Sorbian (or Wendish). Wendish (or Sorbian).

Swedish. Zend.

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Lndewig (Hermann E.) The Litera- ture of American Aboriginal Lan- guages. With Additions and Correc- tions by Professor Wm. W. Turner. Edited by Nicolas TrUbner. 8vo, fly and general Title, 2 leaves; Dr. Lude- wig's Preface, pp. v. — viii ; Editor's Preface, pp. iv — xii ; Biographical Me- moir of Dr. Ludewig, pp. xiii, xiv ; and Introductory Bibliographical Notices, pp. xiv— xxlv, followed by List of Con- tents. Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bib- liotheca Glottica, alphabetically ar- ranged, with Additions by the Editor, pp. 1—209 ; Professor Turner's .-iddi- tions, with those of the Editor to the same, also alphabetically arranged, pp. 210—246; Index, pp. 247—256 ; and list of Errata, pp. 257, 258. One vol. hand- somely bound in cloth, price 10s. 6d. This work is intended to supply a great want, now that the stuily of Ethnologrj- has proved that exotic lanimapes are not mere curiosities, hut es- sential and interesting parts of the natural history of man, fonuing one of the most curious links in the great chain of national atlinities, definiuj^ as they do the reciprority existing between man and the" soil he lives upon. No one can venture to write the hist)ry of America without a knowledge of her aboriginal languages ; and unimportant as such researches may seem to men engaged in the mere bustling occupations of life, they will at least acknowledge that these records of the ])ast, like the stem-lights of a departing ship, are the last glimmers of savage life, as it becomes ab- sorbed or recedes before the tide of civilization. Dr. Ludewig and Pruf. Turner have made most di- ligent use of the public and private collections in America, access to all of which waa most liberally granted to thorn. This has placed at their disposal the labours Of the American Missionaries, so little known on this side of the Atlantic that they may be looked upon almost in the light of untrodden ground. But English and Continental libraries have also been ransacked : and Dr. Ludewig kept up a constant and active correspondence with scholars of *' the Fatherland," as well as with men of similar tastes and pursuits in France, Spain, and Holland, detennined to leave no stone unturned to render his labours as complete as possible. The volume, perfect in itself, is the first of an enlarged edition of Vater's " Linipiarum totiiis orbU In- dex." 'Tlie work has been notice<l by the press of both Continents, and we may be permitted to refer particularly to the following

. OPiinoNS OF THE Pbess. " This work, mainly the production of the late Herr Ludewig, a German, naturalized in America, is devoted to an account of the literature of the aboriginal languages of that country. It gives an alphabetical list of the various tribes of whose lan- guages any record remains, and r<*ers to the works, papers, or manuscripts, in which such information may be found. The work has evidently been a labour of love : and as no pains seem to have been spared by the editors. Prof. Turner and Mr. TrUb- nci-, in rendering the work as accurate and com- plete as possible, those who are most interested in its contents will be best able to judge of the labour and assiduity bestowed upon it by author, editors, and publisher."— ^Ittcntciim, 5th April, 1858.

" Tliis is the first instalment of a work which will be of the greatest value to philologists ; and is a compendium of the aboriginal languages of the American continents, and a digest of all the known literature bearing upon those languages. Mr. TrUbncr's band has lawn engaged pn.«.sini, ami in hii) preface he lays claim to about one-sixth ot the

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whole ; nnd we have no doubt that the encourage- l with which this portion of the work will be received by scholars, will be such as to inspire Mr. TrUbuer with sufficient confidence to persevere in his arduous and most honourable task." — The Critic, 15th Dec., 18S7.

' Few would believe that a good octavo volume would be necessary to exhaust the subject ; yet so " " , and this handsome, useful, and curious volume, carefully compiled by Mr. Ludewig, as- 'sted by Professor Turner, and edited by the care- ful hand of Mr. Triibner, the well-kuown pub- lisher, will be sure to find a place in many li hraT\es."—Benfs Advertiser, 6th Nov., 1857.

" The lovers of American linguistics will find in

10 work of Mr. TrUbner scarcely any point

iiitted calculated to aid the comparative phi- iguages of t'

• Oalway Mercury, 30th Jan., 1868.

' Only those deeply versed in philological studies can appreciate this book at its full value. It shows ' ' t there are upwards of seven hundred and fifty alwriginal American languages." — Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 185S.

" The work contains an account Of no fewer than seven hundred different aboriginal dialects of Ame- rica, with an introductorj- chapter of bibliographical information ; and under each tUalect is an account of any prrammars or other works illustrative of it." — The BookeJIer, Jun. 1858.

" Wc have here the list of monuments still exist- ing, of an almost innumerable series of languages and dialects of the American Continent. The greater part of Indian grammars and vocabularies exist only in MS., and were compiled chiefly by Missionaries of the Christian Church: and to Dr. Ludewig and Mr. TrUbner, we are, therefore, the more indebted for the great care with which they have pointed out where such are to be found, as well as for enumerating those which have been printed, either in a separate shape, in collections, or in vovages and travels, and elsewhere."— Leader, 11th Sept. 1858.

" X have not time, nor is it my purpose, to go into a review of this admirable work, or to attempt to indicate the extent and value of its contents. It is, perhaps, enough to say, that apart from a concise but clear enumeration and notice of the various general philological works which treat with greater or less fulness of American languages, or which incidentally touch upon their biblio- graphy, it contains not less than 256 closely- printed octavo pages of bibliographical notices of grammars, vocabularies, etc., of the aboriginal languages of America. It is a peculiar and Valuable feature of the work that not only the titles of printed or published grammars or vocabularies are given, but also that unpublished or MS. works of these kinds are noticed, in all cases where they are known to exist, but which have disappeared among the debris of the suppressed convents and religious establishments of Spanish Axaence"—E.GSqmer, in a paper read hefore the American Ethnolo- gicatSociety, 12th Jan., 1858.

" In consequence of the death of the author be- fore he had finished the revisal of the work, it has been carefully examined by competent scho- lars, who have also made many valuable addi- tions.' - American Publishers' Circular, 30th

titles

" It contains 256 closely-printed pages of printed books and manuscripts, and notices Of American aboriginal languages, and embraces re- ferences to nearly all ihat has been written or pub- lished respecting them, whether in special works or incidentally in books of travel, periodicals, or proceedincrs of learned societies." — New York Herald, 26th Jan., 1858.

" The manner in which this contribution to the bibliography of American languages haa been ex-

ecuted, both by the author, Mr. Ludewig, and the able writers who have edited the work since his death, is spoken of in the highest terms by gen- tlemen most conversant with the subject." — American Historical Magazine, Vol. II., No. 5, May, 1858. ** Je terminerai en annon^ant le premier volume

g^nerale. Je veux parler de la Bibliotheca Glot- tica, ouvrage devant renfermer la liste de tous les dictionnaires et de toutes les grammaires des langues connues, tant imprinit^s que manuscrits. LV'diteur de cette pr^cicuse bibliograpbie est M. Nicolas TrUbner, dont le nom est houorablement connu dans le monde oriental. Le premier volume est consacr^ aux idiomes Americaines ; le second doit traitor des langues de I'lnde. Le travail est fait avec le soin le plus consciencieux, et fera honneu tik M. Nicolas TrUbner, surtout s'il pour- suit son oeuvre avec la m§me ardeur qu'il amise ^ le commencer." - L. Leon de liosny. Revue de VOrient,FevrieT, 1858.

" Mr. TrUbner's most important work on the bibliography of the aboriginal languages of Ame- rica is deserving of all praise, as eminently useful to those who study that branch of literature. The value, too, of the book, and of the pains which its compilation must have cost, will not be lessened by the consideration that it is first in this field of lin- guistic literature." -PeiermartTi's Geographische Mittheilungen, p. 79, Feb., 1858.

" Undoubtedly this volume of TrUbner's Bib- liotheca Glottica ranks amongst the most valuable additions, which of late years have enriched our bibliographical literature. To us Germans it is most gratifying, that the initiative has been taken by a German bookseller himself, one of the most intelligent and active of our countrymen abroad, to produce a work which has higher aims than mere pecuniary profit, and that he too, has la- boured at its production with his own hands ; because daily it is becoming a circumstance of rarer occurrence that, as in this case, it is a book- seller's primary object to serve the cause of lite- rature rather than to enrich him8elf."-i'. Tromel, Borsenblatt, 4th Jan., 1858.

"In the compilation of the work the editors have availed themselves not only of the labours of Vater, B.arton, Duponceau, GaUatin, De Souza, and others, but also of the MS. sources left by the missionaries, and of many books of Which even the litirary of the British Museum is deficient, and fur- nish t'lio fullest account of the literature of no less than 526 hm^-iKi-es. The value of the work, so ne- cessary to, the study of ethnolog}-, is greatly en- hanced /jv the addition of a good Index."— £erJmcr National-Zeitung, 22nd Nov., 1857.

" The name of the author, to all those who are acqiminted with his former works, and who know the thoroughness and profoimd character of his in- vestigations, is a sufficient guarantee that this work

Petzholdfs A»zeiger,JsLn., 1858.

" The chief merit of the editor and publisher is to have terminated the work carefully and lucidly in contents and form, and thus to have established a new and largely augmented edition of ' Vater's Linffuarum totius orbis Index,' after Professor Jtllg's revision of 1847. In order to continue and complete this work the editor requires the assist- ance of all those who are acquainted with this new branch of science, and we sincerely hope it may be accorded tohiia."— Magazin fur die Literatur des Attslandes, No-dS, 1858.

" As the general title of the book indicates, it will bo extended to the languages of the other continents, in case it meet with a favourable recep- tion, which we most cordially wish it." A . F. Pott, Preussischi Jakrbucher, "Vol. II., part I,

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" Cette compilation savante est sann contredit, le travail bibliographique le plus important que notro ^poque ait vu surj^ir sur les nations inili;;t»n'-9 de I'Ami'rique."— .VouueHea Annates des Voyages, Avril, 1859.

" La Bibliotheca Glottioa, dont M. Nicolas Trlibner, a commence la publication, est un des livres les plus utiles qui aient jauiais ete redi^es Dour faciliter I'etude de la philologie comparee, Le premier tome de cette grand bibiiographie liu- guiatique comprend la liste textuelle de toutea les ^ammaires, de tous les dictionnaires et des voca- bulaircs m^me les moins etendus qui cat ^te im- primis dans les differents dialectes des deux Ame- riques ; en outre, U fait connaltre les ouvrages nianuscrits de la meme nature renferm^s dans les principales biblioth&ques publiques et particulijrcs. Ce travel a dd necessiter do lon^nies et patientea recherches ; aussi m^rite-t-il d'attirer tout particu- li^rement I'attention des philolOh'ues. Puissent les autrea volumes de cette biblioth^que etre redij^es avec le raSme soin et se trouver bientat entre les mains de tons les savanta auxquels ils penvent rendre des services inappreciables."— ijetme Atne- ricaint et Orientate, No. I., Uct. 1858.

** To every fresh addition to the bibliography of language, of which we have a most admirable spe- cimen in this work, the thoughtful Uiijniist will ever, as the great problem of the unity of human speech approaches towards its full solution, turn with increasinp satisfaction and hope.

" But Mr. Nicolaa Trtlbner, however, has per- haps, on the whole, done the highest service of all to the philologer, by the publication of " The Li- terature of American Abori;^nal Lan^ages," He has, with the aid of Professor Turner, greatly en- larged, and at the same time most skilfully edited, the valuable materials acquired by his deceased friend H. Ludewig. We do not, indeed, at this moment, know any similar work deserving of fiill comparison with it- In its ampli important works of reference,

of .careful record of the most recent facta in the literature of its sub- ject, it, as might have been expected, greatly sur- passes JUlg's ' Vater,' valuable and trustworthy though that learned German's work undoubtedly is."— A'ortA British Review, No. 59, February,

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GoldstUcker, Mr. Watts (of the Museum), Pro- fessor A. Fr. Pott (of Halle), Dr. Julius Petzholt (of Dresden), Hofrath Dr. Grasse (of Dresden), M. F. F. de la Figaniere (of Lisbon), E. Edwards (of Manchester), Dr. Max MUller (of Oxford), Dr. Buschmann (of Berlin), Dr. JUlg (of Cracow), and other linguistic scholars.

Triibner (Nicolas).. Trubner's Bib- liographical Guide to American Li- terature : a Classed List of Books published in the United States of Ame- rica, from 1817 to 1857. With Bibliogra- Ehical Introduction, Notes, and Alpha- etical Index. Compiled and Edited by Nicolas Trubner. In One vol. 8vo, of 750 pages, hall-bound, price I8s. This work, it is believed, is the first attempt

cording to the generally received bibliographical canons. The Librarian will welcorrie it, no doubt, as a. companion volume to Brunet, Lowndes, and Ebert; whilst, to the book- seller, it will be a faithful guide to the Ameri- can branch of English Literature — a branch which, on account of its rapid increase and rising importance, Itegius to force itself daily more aud more upon his attention. Nor will

the work be of less interest to the man of letters inasmuch aa it comprises complete Tables of Con- tents to all the more prominent CoUectiuns of the Americans, to the Journals, Memoirs, Proceedings, and Transactions of their learned Societies— and thus furnishes an intelligible key to a department of American scientiac activity hitherto but imper- fectly known and understood in Europe. 0PXN10S.S OF THE PbESS.

" It has been reserved for a foreigner to have compiled, for the benefit of European readers, a really trustworthy guide to Anglo-American literature. This honourable distinction has been fairly won )>y Mr. Nicholas TrUbner.the intelli- gent and well-known publisher in Patemuster- row. That gentleman haa succeeded in makin" a very valuable additon to bibliographical knowledge, in a quarter where it was much wanted."— P«ivers«J Review, Jan., 1859.

*' ' Trubners Bibliographical Guide to Ameri- can Literature' deserves praise for the great care with which it ia prepared, and the wonderful amount of information contained in its pages. It is compiled and edited by Mr. Nicholas TiUbner, the publisher, of Paternoster Row. It comprises a classified list of books published in the United States during the last forty years, with Bibliographical Introduction, Notes, land Alphabetical Index. The introduction is very elahorate and full of facts, and must be the work of a gentleman who haa spared no pains in making himself master of all that is important in connection with American literature. It cer- tainly supplies much information not generally known in Jiurope." — Morning Star, January Slat, 1859.

" Mr. TrUbner deserves much credit for being the first to arrange bibliography according to the received rules of the art. He began the labour in 1855, and the first volume was published in th.at year : constituting, in fact, the earliest attempt, on this side of the Atlantic, to cata- logue American books. The present volume, of course, is enlarged, and is more perfect in everv respect. The method of classification is exceed- ingly clear and useful.

In short, it presents the actual state of litera- ture, aa well as the course of its development, from the beginnin;;. Into the subject-matter ot this section we shall have to look hereafter ; we are now simply explaining the composition of Mr. TrUbner's most valuable and useful book." —Spectator, February 5, 1859.

" Mr. TrUbner's book is by far the most com- plete American bibliography that has yet ap- peared, and displays an amount of patience and research that does liim infinite credit. We have tested the accuracy of the work upon several points demanding much care and inquiry, and the result haa always been satisfactory. Uur American brethren caimot fail to feel compli- mented by the production of this volume, wliich in quantity almost equals our own London cata- logue."-yAe£uo/.seH«c, February 21, 1859.

" To say of this volume that it entirely fulfils the proinUe of ita title-page, is possibly the highest and most truthful commendation that can be awarded to it. Mr. TrUbner deserves, however, something beyond general praise for the patient and intelligent labour with whiih he has elaborated the earlier forms of the work into th.it which it now b.ars. What was once but a scanty volume' has now become magnified, under his care, to one of considerable size ; and what was once little better than a dry catalogue, may now take rank aa a biographical work of flrst- rate importance. His position as an American literao- agent has, doubtless, been very favour- alile to Mr. Trubner, by throwing matter in his way; and he confesses, in his preface, that it is to this source that he is mainly indebted lor the materials which have enabled him to construct the work before us. Mr. TrUbner's object in com-

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piling this book is, he states, two-fold : ' On the

ed, as he necessarily would be, with the needful appliances ; and, on the other, to supply to Europeans a guide to Anglo-American literature —a branch which, by its rapid rise and increas- ing importance, begins to force itself more and more on our attention.' It is very modest in Mr. Trubner thus to treat his work as a mere sug- gestion for others. It is much more than this : It is an example which those who attempt to do anything more complete cannot do better than to follow a model, which they will do well to copy, if they would combine tulness of material with that admirable order and arrangement which 60 facilitates reference, and without which a work of this sort is all but useless.

" All honour, then, to the literature of Young America— for young she still is, and let her thank her stars for it— and all honour, also, to Mr. TrUbner, for taking so much pains to make us acquainted with it."— The Critic, March 19, 18S9.

" This is not only a very useful, because well executed, bibliographical work— it is also a work of much mterest to all who are connected with literature. The bulk of it consists of a classified list, with date of publication, size, and price, of all the works, original or translated, which have appeared in the United States during the last forty years ; and an alphabetical index facili- tates reference to any particular work or author. On the merits of this portion of the work we can- not, of course, be expected to form a judgment. It would require something of the special erudi- tion of Mr. Trtlbner himself, to say how far he has succeeded or fallen short of his undertaking

careful minuteness, which suggests the amount of labour that must have been bestowed on the work— namely, the full enumeration of all the contents ofthe various Transactions and Scien- tific Journals. Thus, the ' Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,' from the year 1769 to 1857- no index to which has yet appeared in America — are in this work made easy of re- ference, every paper of every volume being men- tioned seriatim. The naturalist, who wishes to know what papers have appeared in the Boston Journal of Natural History during the last twenty years, that is, from its commencement, has only to glance over the five closely-printed pages of this guide to satisfy himself at once."— 'Jhe Saturday Review, April 2, 1859.

" We have never seen a work on the national literature of a people more carefully compiled than the present, and the bibliographical prole- gomena deserves attentive perusal by all who would study either the political or the literary history of the greatest republic ofthe West."— The Leader, March 26, 1869.

" The subject of my letter to-day may seem to be of a purely literary character, but I feel justi- fied to claim a more general interest for it. That subject is connected with the good reputation of tlie United States abroad, It is likewise con- nected with the general topic of my two former letters. I have spoken of the friends and the an- tagonists of the United States among European nations, and among thediSerent classes of Euro- pean society. I have stated that the antagonists

classes, and those connected with the Govern ment interests, but among those who live in the sphere of literature and art, and look down with contempt upon a society in which utilitarian motives are believed to be paramount. And I have asserted that, these differences in the opi- nions of cenain classes left aside, the Germans,

as a whole, take a more lively and a deeper inte- rest in American afiairs than any other nation. Now, I am going to speak of a book just ready to leave the press of a London publisher, which, whileit is a remarkable instance of the truth of my assertion in reference to the Germans, must be considered as serving the interests of the United States, by promoting the good reputation of American life in an uncommon degree.

" The London book trade has a firm, TrUbner & Co., of whose business transactions American literature, as well as literature on America, form a principal branch. It is the firm who have lately published the bibliography of American languages. Mr. Nicolas TrUbner is a German, who has never inhabited the United States, and yet he risks his time, labour, and money, in lite- rary publications, for which even vain endeavours would have been made to find an American pub-

" The new publication of Mr. TrUbner, to which I have referred, is a large 8vo. volume of 80O pages, under the title of ' Bibliographical Guide to American Literature. Aclassified List of Books published in the United States of America, from 1817 to 1857. With Bibliographical Intro- duction, Notes, and Alphabetical Index. Com- piled and edited by Nicolas TrUbner.

" This last remark has but too much truth in it. The United States, in the opinion of the great mass of even the well-educated people of Europe, is a country inhabited by a nation lost in the pursuit of material interest, a country in which the technically applicable branches of some sciences may be cultivated to a certain degree, but a country essentially without litera- ture and art, a country not without newspapers —so much the worse for it— but almost without books. Now, here, Mr. TrUbner, a German, comes out with a list of American books, filling a thick volume, though containing American publications only, upward from the year 1817, from which time he dates the period of a more decided literary independence of the United States.

" Since no native-born, and even no adopted, American, has taken the trouble of compiling, ar- ranging, digesting, editing, and publishing such a work, who else but a German could undertake it ? who else among the European nations would have thought American literature worth the labour, the time, and the money ? and, let me add, that a smaller work of a similar character, ' The Literature of American Local History,' by the late Dr. Hermann Ludewig, was the work of a German, likewise. May be that the majority of the American public will ascribe but an in- ferior degree of interest to works of this kind. The majority of the public of other nations will do the same, as it cannot be everybody's business

derstand the usefulness of bibliography, oks containing nothing but the enu- and description of books. One thing, however, must be apparent : the deep interest taken by some foreigners in some of the more ideal spheres of American life ; and if it is true, that the clear historical insight into its own de- velopment, ideal as well as mbterial, is one ofthe most valuable acquisitions of a nation, future American generatsons will acknowledge the good services of those foreigners, who, by their literary application, contributed to avert the national calamity ofthe origin of the literary independ- ence of America becoming veiled in darkness."— New York Daily Tribune, December, 1858.

" It is remarkable and noteworthy that the most valuable manual of American literature should appear in London, and be published by an Englisn house. ' TrUbner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature is a work of ex- traordinary skill and perseverance, giving an index to all the publications of the American press for the last forty years." — Harper's Weekly, March 26th, 1859.

Catalogue of Important Works.

' Mr. TrUbner deserves all praise for having produced a work every way satisfiictory. No one wiio takes an interest in the subject of whicli it treat can dispense with it ; and we have no doubt that booksellers in this country will learn to consider it necessary to them as a shop manual, and only second in importance, for the purposes of their trade, to the London Catalogue itself That a foreigner, and a London bookseller, should have accomplished what Americans them- selves have failed to do, is most creditable to the compiler. The volume contains 149 pages of in- troductory matter, containing by far the best record of American literary history yet pub- lished ; and 521 pages of classed lists of books, to which an alphabetical index of 33 pages is added. This alphabetical index alone may claim to be one of the most valuable aids for enabling the student of literary history to form a just and perfect estimate of the great and rising im- portance of Anglo-American literat<ire, the youngest and most imtrammeUed of all which illustrate the gradual development of the human mmd."— The Press, Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1858.

" Wc do not so much express the wish by this notice, that Mr. TrUbner may not find a public ungrateful for his labour, as congratulate, espe- cially American Bibliophiles, upon the advan- tage within their reach, by the acquisition and use of what Mr. TrUbner has so opportunely supplied." — Washin/jcon National Intelligencer, March 22nd, 1859.

" This volume contains a well-classified list of books published in the United States of America during the last forty years, preceded by a tole- rably full survey of American literary enter- prise during the first half of the nineteenth century. The value of such a guide, in itself tolerably evident, becomes more so upon glanc- ing over the five hundred and forty pages of close print which display the literary activity pervading the country of Prescott and Mottley, of Irving and Hawthome.of Poe and Longfellow, of Story and Wheaton, of Moses Stuart and Channing. This volume will be useful to the scholar, but to the librarian it is indispensable." —Daily A'ews, March 24, 1859.

" There are hundreds of men of moderate scholarship who would gladly stand on some higher and more assured point. They feel that they have acquired much information, but they also feel the need of that subtle discipline, lite- rary education, without which all mere learning is the rurlis indigesta moles, as much of a stum- bling-block as an aid. To those in such a con- dition, works on bibliopaphy are invaluable.

„ . Th a'cCT- and by education and profession a London bookseller, could hardly be called a ' stranger in America,' for he had sent before him a most valuable 'letter of introduction,' in the shape of a carefully compiled register of American books and authors, entitled ^ Bibliographical Guide American Literature,' &c., pp. xxxii., 108.

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For direction in classifying alT reading, whether English or American, Allibone's Dictionary is admirable ; but, for particular information as to the American side of the house, the recently published Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, by Nicolas TrUbner of London, may be conscientiously commended. A careful pe- rusal of this truly remarkable work cannot fail to give any intelligent person a clear and com- plete idea of the whole state of American book- making, not only in its literary aspect, but in its historical, and, added to this, in its most mecha- nical detaXXa." —Philaddpha Evening Bulletin March 5th, 1859.

" But the best work on American bibliography yet published has come to us from London, where it has been compiled by the well-known bibliophile, TrUbner. 'The work is remarkable for condensation and accuracy, though we have noted a few errors and omissions, upon which we should like to comment, had we now space to do so."~New York Times, Match 26th, 1859.

" Some of our readers, whose attention has been particularly called to scientific and literary matters, may remember meeting, some years since, in this country, a most intelligent fo- reigner, who visited the United States for Ihe purpose of extending his business connections,

publication, the title of which the reader will find at the commencement of this article. Now, in consequence of Mr. TrUbner's admi- rable classification and minute index, the in- quirer after knowledge has nothing to do but copy from the Bibliographical Guide the titles of the American books which he wishes to consult, despatch them to his library by a messenger, and in a few minutes he has before him the coveted volumes, tlirough whose means he hopes to enlarge his acquisitions. Undoubtedlv it would be a cause of well-founded reproach, ofdeep mor- tification to every intelligent American, if the arduous labours of the learned editor and com- piler of this volume (whom we almost hesitateto call a foreigner), should fail to be appreciated in a country 'to which he has, by the preparation of this valuable work, proved himself so eminent a benefactor" — Pennsylvania Enquirer, March 26th, 1859.

The editor of this volume has acquired a knowledge of the productions of the American press which is rarely exliihited on the other side of the Atlantic, and which must command the admiration of the best informed students of the subject in this country. His former work on American bibUography, though making no pre- tensions to completeness, was a valuable index to various branches of learning that had been successfully cultivated by our scholars ; but, neither in comprehensiveness of plan nor tho- roughnessof execution,can',it be compared to the elaborate and minute record of American lite- rature contained in this volume. The duty of the editor required extensive research, vigilant discrimination, and untiring diligence ; and in the performance of his task we are no less struck with the accuracy of detail than with the extent of his information. The period to which the volume is devoted, comprises only the last forty years ; but within that time the litera- ture or this country has received its most effi- cient impulses, and been widely unfolded in the various departments of intellectual activity If we were permitted to speak in behalf of jVmerican scholars, we should not fail to congra- tulate Mr. Trilbner on the eminent success with which he has accomplished his plan, and the ample and impartial justice with which he has registered the productions of our native author- ship. After a careful txaininationof his volume, we are bound to i-xinv.ss .mr liJL'happreciatiim of the intelligence, lairm ss,:iim1 iii.lustry whicli are conspicuous in its pUL'cs ; liir exactness and pre- cision it is no less remarkatilc, than for extent of research ; few, if any, important publications are omitted on its catalogue, and altnough, as is inevitable in a work of this nature, an erroneous letter has sometimes crept into a name, or an erroneous figure into a date, no one can consult it habitually without learning to rely on its trustworthiness, as well as its completeness."— Harper's Magazine, April, 1859.

" Nor is the book a dry catalogue only of the names and contents of the publications of Ame- rica. Prefixed to it are valuable bibliographical prolegomena, instructive to the antiquary, as well as useful to the philologist. In this portion of the work, Mr. TrUbner had the assistance ot the late Dr. iLudewig, whose early death was a great loss to philological science. Mr. Moran- the assistant-secretary to the American Lega- tion, has added to the volume a historical sum, mary of the literature of America ; and Mr.

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Edward Edwards is responsible for an interesting account of the public libraries of tlie United States. To Mr. TrUbner's own careful superin- tendence and hard work, however, the student must ever remain indebted for one of the most useful and well-arranged books on bibliosra- phical lore ever published. In addition to this, It is right to congratulate Mr. TrUbner on the faet, that his present work confirms the opinion passed on his * Bibliotheca Glottica,' that among the booksellers themselves honourable literary eminence may exist, without clashing with busi ness arrangements. The booksellers of old were authors, and Mr. TrUbner emulates their exam- ple."—JrorHtny Chronicle, March 22, 1859.

" Mr. Trubner, who is not only a bibliopole but a bibliophile, has, in this work, materially increased the claim which he had already upon the respect of all book-lovers everywhere, but especially in the United States, to whose litera- ture he has now made so important and useful a contribution. So much larger than a former book, under a similar title, which" he published in 18Sa, and so much more ample in every respect, the present constitutes a new implement for our libraries, as well as the most valuable ex- isting aid for those students who, without libra- ries, have an interest in knowing their contents." —Baltimore American, 2nd April, 1869.

" Lastly, published only the other day, is Trtibner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, which gives a classed list of books published in the United States during the last forty years, with biblio'-raphical introduction, notes, and alphabetical index. This octavo volume has been compiled and edited by Mr. Nicholas TrUbner. the well-known head of one of the great foreign publishing and importing houses of London, who is also editor of Ludewi" and Tm-ner's Literature of American Aboriginal Languages. Besides containing a classed list of books, with an alphabetical index, Mr. TrUb- ner's book has an introduction, in which, at con- siderable fulness, he treats of the history of American literature, including newspapers, pe- riodicals, and public libraries. It is fair to state that Mr. TrUbner'sBibliographical Guide was published subsequent to Allibone's Dictionary, but printed off about the same time."— Philadel- phia Pc&ss, April 4th, 1859.

" This is a valuable work for book buyers. For its compilation we are indebted to a foreign bibliomaniac, but one who has made himself familiar with American literature, and has pos- sessed himself of the most ample sources of in- formation. The volume contains :— I. Biblio- grapliical Prolegomena ; II. Contributions to-

wards a history of American literature ; III Notices of Public Libraries of the United States These three heads form the introduction, and occupy one hundred and fifty pages. IV. Classed list of books ; v. Alphabetical list of authors. This plan is somewhat after that adopted in Watts' celebrated 'Bibliotheca Britannica,' a work of immense value, whose compilation oc- cupied some forty years. The classified portion of the present work enables the reader to find readily the names of all books on any one sub- ject. The alphabetical index of authors enables the reader to ascertain instantly the names of all authors and of all their works, including the numerous periodical publications of the last forty years. Mr. TrUbner deserves the thanks of the literary world for his plan, and its able exe- cution." — A^ew York Courier and Enquirer, April 11th, 1859.

" L'auteur, dans une preface de dix pages, ex- pose les idees qui lui ont fait entreprendre son livre, et le plan qu'il a cru devoir adopter. Dans une savante introduction, il fait une revue critique des differents ouvrages relatifs Ji I'Am^- rique ; il signale ceux qui ont le plus contribue h I'etablissement d'une Iitt^rature speciale Ameri- caine, et il en fait I'histoire, cette partie de son travail est destin^e h. lui faire honneur, elle est methodiquement divisee en pi^riode coloniale et en pi?riode Am^ricaine et renferme, sur les progrfes del' imprimerie en Amerique, sur le salaire des auteurs, sur le commerce de la li- brairie, les publications periodique^. des ren- seignements trSs interessants, que Ton est. houreux de trouver reimis pour la premit^re fois Cette introduction, qui n'a pas moins de 150 pages, se termine par une table statistique de toutes les biblioth&ques publiques des differents Etats de I'Union.

" Le catalogue methodique et raisonn^ des ouvrages n'occupe pas moms de 521 pages, il forme 32 sections consacrtes chacune & I'une des branches des sciences humaines; celle qui donne la liste des ouvrages qui interessent lageograpliie et les voyages (section xvi.) comprend prfes de 600 articles, et parmi eux on trouve I'indication de plusieurs ouvrages dont nous ne soup^onnions meme pas I'existence en Europe. Un index gi5n^ral alphabetique par noms d' auteurs qui termine ce livre, permet d'abri'ger des recherches souvent bieu pc^nibles. Le guide bibliographique de M. TrUbner est un monument i\t\i k I'ac- tiviti; scientiflque et litteraire Am^ricaine et comme tel, il est digne de prendre place ^ c5te des ouvrages du meme genre publii^s en Europe par les Brunet, les Lowndes, et les Ebert. (V. A. MaXte-'BraiLU'—NouvelksAnnales dts Voyages, AprU, 1869.

Addenda.

Cobbe. An Essay on Intuitive Morals. Being an attempt to popularize Ethical Science. By Francis Tower Cobbe. Part I. Theory of morals. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, Pp 296, cloth.

Part II. Pbactice of Morals. Book I. Kkligious Duty. Second Edition. Crown 8vo., cloth, in the Press,

Sclater. Catalogue of a Collection OF American Birds belonging to Mr. Philip Linsley Sclater, M. A., Th. Doc, F.K.S. Fellow of Coi-pus Christi College, Oxford ; Secretary to the Zoological So- ciety of Loudon ; Editor of " The Ibis." 8vo. Pp. 354, and 20 coloured Plates of Bii-ds, cloth, 303.

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Catalogue of Important Works.

Rowan. Meditations on Death and Eternitt. Translated from the German (by command) by Fredehica Rowan. Published by Her Majesty's Gracious permission. Inoue volume, crown 8vo., cloth.

Compte Rendu du Con&rres International debienfai^aiice de liOndres. Troisifeme Session. 2 volumes, 8vo. (one French, one English) In the Prest.

Paton. A History of the Egyptian Revolution, from the Period of the Mamelukes to the Death of Mohammed Ali ; from Arab and European Memoirs, Oral Tradition, and Local Research, By A. A. Paton, F.R.G.S., Author of " Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic." Two volumes, 8vo, cloth.

Tlcknor. A History op Spanish Literature. Entirely rewritten. By George Ticknor. Three volumes, Crown 8vo., cloth.

Parker. The Collected Works of Theodore Parker ; containing his Theological, Polemical, and Critical Writings, Sermons, Speeches, and Ad-

dresses, and Literary Miscellanies. In Twelve Volumes. Crown 8vo., cloth.

Renan. An Essay on the Age and Antiqcityofthe Bookof Nabath«an AoRicuLTURE. To which is added an Inaugural Lecture on the position of the Shemitic Nations in the History of Civilization. By M. Ernest Renan, Membre de Tlnstitut. In one Volume. Crown 8vo., cloth.

Bleek. A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages. By Dr. W. H. I. Bleek. In one Volume, Crown 8vo., cloth.

Wilson. Essays and Lectures chiefly on the Religion of the Hindus. By H. H. Wilson, M.A., F.R.S., late Boden Professor of San- skrit in the University of Oxford. Collected and Edited by Dr. Reinhold RosT. Vol. II.

Wedgwood. A Dictionary op English Etvmoloot. By Hensleioh Wedgwood, M.A., late Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge. (Volume II.— E. to P.) 8vo.

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