Tue November-December number of the China Review contains some papers well worthy of comment, and interest. ing from the light they throw on Chi nese history and literature. We may without cavil give the first place to Mr. Watters's notes on Fah-bien and his English translators, which indies to such a thorough acqanintance with the subject that students of the antiquities of China and India would gladly welcome, instead of disjointed notes, a translation de novo of the original work, the Fah-kwo-ki, We may go further and suggest that admirable as ix Julien's translation of the Si-yn-ki, there is room for a new one from the hands of a scholar so thoroughly acquainted with Chinese Bnddhisi as Mr. Watters. With regard to the len. tification of the places visited, although Tashkurgan (in Turkish, Stone-fort) on the east by the river Sweli or Swat, and on the west by the Indus, between Kashmir and Kabul!" General Can-bingham, however, states that Udyann, in Pali Ujjina, was the district around Jelainbad, As Udyfina means simply garden, it may have been applied to the valley of the upper Swat. Thence there is no difficulty in identifying the pilgrim's route, Fah-hien went down the river to the kingdom of Ssu-ho-ta, ie, Swat, and thence to Kien-yo-wei, ie. Gandhira, a name in those days applied to the lower valley of the Kabul and about the modern Pasha. wur, seven days' journey east of which was Chu-cha-shih-lo, the Taxila ofArrian, From Gandbira, travelling southwards for two days, they arrived at Fo-low-sha Purushapura, now Peshawar, Mr, Watters goes out of his way to find an identification for fF Aff te, Attok, used by Ma wan-lin for the district generally of the upper Indus. As a rule it may be assumed that Turkish names in Central Asia are of more modern origin than the time of Fah-hien.
Next to Mr. Watters's notes the most valuable communication in the number is Dr. F. Hirth's Notes on Chinese Grammar. Dr. Birth has confined his notes to the one style, the documentary language, and has acted wisely in so doing. Hitherto the great difficulty in comprehending Chinese grammar, or in fact in understanding that there was any grammar whatever in the language, has been the habit of confounding quial, classic and modern official Chinese, under one and the same head *lax if a writer on English grammar were to use indifferently in his luteo. tions broad Scotch, Anglo-Saxon and Macaulay's Essays. Dr. Hirth's treat ment of dependent sentences, and the peculiar ase of the genitive 2, will the student materially on his first introduction to the written language. His notes on the relative ff afford
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