4. Effects of the late Colonial Policy of Great Britain; de- scribed in a Letter to the Right Honourable Sir George VII.-1. Would Reform in Parliament be a Benefit to the Country? By B. S. Escott, Esq. 2. Essentials of Parliamentary Reform. By George Grote, 5. A Dialogue on Election by Ballot. By William Henry 6. The Real Character and Tendency of the proposed Reform. 7. The Speech of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker on 8. A few Words to the Electors of Guildford, on Reform. By Charles Baring Wall, Esq., M.P. 9. The Mirror of Parliament. Parts LXXVIII. LXXIX. 10. View of the Representation of Scotland in 1831. 11. Dissection of the Scottish Reform Bill. By a Member of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple. 14. The Balance of Power, demonstrating that the Reform Bill is false and unjust in Principle, and subversive of 15. Notes on the Bill. By a Barrister. I.-1. Bhagavat Gita, id est Oeσmeσiov Meλos, sive almi Krishnæ et Arjunæ Colloquium de rebus divinis. 2. 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Eine Zeitschrift von August Wilhelm von Schlegel. 2 vols. Various years. 13. Rigveda Specimen. Edidit Fredericus Rosen, London. 1830. THE indifference of the British public to the religious and political state of the vast empire which extends, in its sovereignty or influence, from the foot of the Himalaya to Cape Comorin, has been a frequent subject of astonishment and complaint. Those Those regions of which our ancestors spake and read with a kind of awe-struck wonder, as of those where the gorgeous east Shower'd o'er her kings barbaric pearl and gold, having lost their imaginative interest, as the realms of sovereigns who sat on ivory thrones, rode abroad among a thousand elephants, and seemed to realize all the magic wonders of the Arabian Nights ;' and having sunk into the presidencies of quiet and unromantic English gentlemen, are supposed to possess no interest except to the holders of East India stock, or to those who think India an admirable country to provide for younger sons. The Journal of Bishop Heber awoke the public mind, at least for a time, to a more vivid curiosity about regions where external nature is so prolific in wonders; where the British government issues out its mandate to almost as many nations and languages as the great king in the Old Testament; where the land is strewn with the wrecks of mighty empires, and with the mouldering monuments of religions whose origin is lost in the depth of remote ages, but which have influenced the fate of generations after generations of our fellow-creatures; and where vestiges are discovered, if not of the earliest, at least of civilization in its primeval form, and stretching upward far beyond the reach, at all events, of profane record. If then there is, in general, such remarkable apathy on all questions connected with India, questions which at present relate to the civil, moral, and religious welfare of a hundred millions of our subjects, it could scarcely be expected that much general attention should be drawn towards the antiquities and literature of a people whose habits of feeling, thinking, and believing are, in many respects, so remote from and repugnant to those of all European nations. Yet to the few who study with intense interest the history of man, how full of wonder and of information is the civil, the religious, the literary history of this remarkable people, as it has been gradually developed, and as their monuments are more profoundly studied, and their writings more extensively made known through the diligence and activity of English and continental scholars! What curious, even if inexplicable, secrets come, daily as it were, to light from the study of a language, not merely in its primitive roots, but in its construction and grammatical forms, so strikingly allied with the Persian, still more with the Greek, the primitive Latin, and the Teutonic tongues ;* from the discovery, if not in its primitive at As a single instance, we find in the two auxiliary verbs of the Sanscrit not only almost, totidem literis, the sous, soo, or, in the asmi, asi, asti of the Indian; but in the other, the bhavami, with its root bhu and its derivatives, the germ of the bam, bas, bat of the Latin imperfect, and of the ancient form of the preterite fuvi, fuvisti, fuvit. least |