CONTENTS. PAGE AVE, KAISAR-I-HIND! 1893. A Pæan in Arabic and Persian. Chrono- grams (with English Translation), by Dr. G. W. Leitner, followed by an Urdu Prize-translation of "the National Anthem.” RUSSIANIZED OFFICIALISM IN INDIA. By Sir William Wedderburn, OUR INDIAN TRANS-FRONTIER EXPEDITIONS. By J. Dacosta RECENT EVENTS IN CHILÁS AND CHITRÁL. By Dr. G. W. Leitner THE OPIUM QUESTION. From a Chinese Official Standpoint JAPAN AND HER CONSTITUTION. By F. T. Piggott (No. II.) . UGANDA. By Philo-Africanus. . THE BRUSSELS MONETARY CONFERENCE, AND THE PLANS TO RESTORE Silver. By A. Cotterell Tupp. . LEGENDS, SONGS, CUSTOMS, AND HISTORY OF DARDISTAN (Chilás, Dareyl, Tangîr, Gilgit, Hunza, Nagyr, Yasin, Chitral, and Kafiristan). (Illustrated.) By Dr. G. W. Leitner . A MARRIAGE CUSTOM OF THE ABORIGINES OF BENGAL. By E. BURMAN DACOITY AND PATRIOTISM AND BURMAN POLITICS. By General Sir H. N. D. Prendergast, V.C., K.C.B. . . . THE CHINS AND KACHINS. By Taw Sein Ko INDIAN OFFICIAL OPINIONS ON TRIAL BY JURY. By the Hon. Justice J. Jardine THE AMIR ABDURRAHMAN AND THE PRESS. By an Ex-Panjab STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND MOROCCO. By the Shereef of Wazan, Muley A'li Ben A’bd-es-Selám THE NEUTRALIZATION OF EGYPT. By Safir Bey, Ar-Rashidi THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AS A FIELD FOR RETIRED ANGLO- INDIANS. By an Anglo-Indian Colonial . . : THE SAMVAT ERA: A Contribution to the Vikramaditya Con- troversy. By Pundit Jwâlâ Sahâya . . NOTES ON INDIAN NUMISMATICS. By V. A. Smith, M.R.A.S. ENGLISH TEXTS AND ORIENTAL TRANSLATIONS: I. THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN URDU. By Dr. G. W. Leitner . The Two STAGES IN BUDDHA'S TEACHING. By General J. G. R. A SANSCRIT PÆAN in Honour of Dom Carlos I. of Portugal, and of the Lisbon Oriental Congress. By Raja Sir Sourindro Mohun THE FIRST GHAZAL OF Hafiz. Bv Sir Edwin Arnold, K.C.I.E. . PERSIAN CHRONOGRAMS ON MR. W. E. GLADSTONE ; URDU AND TURKISH VERSES. By G. W. L. . . THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN HAWAII. By His Excellency A. Hoffnung, Hawaiian Chargé d'Affaires in London .. DARDISTAN: Discoveries regarding the Secret Religion of the Mulais of the Hindukush, and its Relation to the Druses of the Lebanon and to the so-called "Assassins" of the Crusades . Allusions in the Classics to the Dards and to Greek Influence ts and Fie Wassa Pashale LATE SIRV; M.C.S. PAGE Facts and Fiction.” By the late Sir P. Colquhoun and His late 435 raiders and their Literature." By R. Sewell, M.C.S.. . .. 449 .. . 212-480 Anglo-Russian Relations, General Kiréeff.--The Physical 212—231 East Africa Company.--The Jury System, the Right Hon. : . . . . . . . . 483-507 F ORIEN- 229-507 251--527 Compton.-Albuquerque, by H. Morse Stephens --Lord Chine, par le Prince H. d'Orléans.-Japan and its Art, by DOLU 139 (RECAP) 475376 by Rev. M. L. Gordon.- Japan : its History, Folklore, and Art, by W. E. Griffis.-Mariette's Outlines of Egyptian History, by M. Broderick.- Poems in Petroleum, by J. C. Grant.-Du Niger au Golfe de Guinea, par le Capitaine Binger.-From the Caves and Jungles of Hindustan, by and other poems, by Lord Tennyson.-Entartung, by Dr. Max Nordau.-Rapport sur les Etudes Berbères Ethio- piennes et Arabes, by René Basset.-Notice sur les Dialectes Berbères des Harakta et du Djerid Tunisien, by Letters from a Mahratta Camp, by J. D. Broughton (Con- stable's Miscellany, vol. iv.).-Grammar of the Hindi Languages, by S. H. Kellogg, D.D.-School History of India, by G. U. Pope, D.D.-The Rise of the British Dominion in India, by Sir A. Lyall, K.C.B., D.C.L.-Early Bibles of America, by John Wright, D.D.-The Marquess of Hastings, K.G., by Major J. Ross, of Bladensburg, C.B.-Church and State in India, by Sir T. C. Hope, K.C.S.I.-Notes on the Indian Currency, by J. Teale.-Chinese Stories, by Professor R. K. Douglas.- Letters from South Africa, reprinted from the Times—The A.B.C. of Foreign Exchanges, by G. Clare.-Four Months in Persia, by C. E. Biddulph.- The Tel-el-Amarna Tablets, by Major C. R. Conder.- National Life and Character, by C. H. Pearson.- Western Australia and its Gold Fields, by A. F. Calvert. The M. E. Grant-Duff, G.C.S.I., and Whitley Stokes, D.C.L.- The Rauzat-us-Safá; or, The Garden of Purity, translated by the late E. Rehatsek, and edited by F. F. Arbuthnot. Kypros, the Bible and Homer, by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, Ph.D.-Buddha Charita of Ashva Ghosha, by E. B. Cowell. -An English Telugu Dictionary, by P. Sankaranarayana. -The Vidyodaya.-Adzuma, by Sir E. Arnold, K.C.S.I.- Diary of an Idle Woman in Constantinople, by Frances Elliot. — L’Insurrection Algérienne de 1871 dans les chansons populaires Kabyles, by René Basset.—Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition, by C. G. Leland . 527-542 TO OUR READERS. We have much pleasure in conveying the gratifying announcement to our readers and to Oriental Scholars generally that, immediately after the present issue of this Review had been printed, Dr. Leitner has, at last, received the object of many years of search, a Manuscript of, or from, the mysterious ** Kelám-i-Pîr," the “ Logos of The Ancient,” which is the sacred book of the "initiated ” among the Druses of the Lebanon and of the Ismailians throughout the Muhammadan World generally, whether in India or Persia or round the “ Bám-i-dunya,” the “Roof of the World,” the hitherto inaccessible Pamir regions of the Hindukush, which our attack on “the Fairyland of Hunza” has brought within the devastating reach of European politics. We trust to be able to quote some extracts from this secret Bible in our next issue, and thus to set at rest, in continuation with the revelations which are made about the Muláis in the current number of The Asiatic Quarterly Rewiew," the speculations of Nine Centuries regarding the real tenets of the most important form of “Esoteric” Muhammadanism. There will be much in the forthcoming extracts to confirm or to correct the Muhammadan authors regarding the so-called “ Assassins” of the Crusades quoted by the unparalleled Arabic Scholar, Baron Sylvestre de Sacy, and by Baron Hammer von Purgstall. Suffice it to say that the Manuscript of, or from, the “ Kelám-i-Pîr,” in question, is by, or attributed to, a great Historian, the famous Shah Nasir Khosrô, himself an adherent of the Ismailian sect [born 355 A.H. = 969 A.D.). It is in good condition, in an ordinary Persian handwriting, and will, we believe, offer no difficulties in translation beyond those connected with its style and mystic substance. It has been sent by the enlightened Head of the Ismailian community, His Highness Agha Sultan Muhammad Shah, the present Agha Khan, who thus continues the literary sympathy which his father extended to Dr. Leitner's researches among the Muláis of the Hindukush. We have also been favoured with a short biography and the photograph of His Highness, which we propose to publish in our next issue.-ED. The date of the opening of the Imperial Institute, which is given on p. 374 as May 23rd, has now been fixed for May roth. |