Másik Patrika, Nos. 1. and 2. Monthly Magazine for Females. A NOBLE attempt to write useful matter in language adapted to the capacity of the females in Bengal. The first number is on Shrads being of no use.-Account of female virtue in Lucretia.-Dialogue on teaching. As is the mother so is the son. The publication is edited by natives, and shows that educated babus are awaking to a sense of their duty to spread knowledge among the masses through their vernacular tongue. We heartily welcome this periodical, and wish it every success.

Udbhij Videa, or Simple Lessons on Plants.

A WORK translated from the English, by educated natives, designed to impart elementary instruction on plants, their uses, structure, &c. is a translation, with adaptations, of a little work called the Child's Botany. In this country boys in country districts are very observant of the objects of nature, and particularly of all subjects relating to plants-hitherto they have had no means of gaining knowledge from books on these points. Botany has been called the science of ladies, we think it ought to be too the science of an educated rural population.

Luker Injil, Gospel of Luke in Musulman-Bengali, 1853.

PUBLISHED by the Calcutta Bible Society for the use of Musulmans who cannot read pure Bengali, but who can understand a language half Urdu half Bengali-a most important class.

Muhammeder Jiban Charitra, or Life of Muhammed, founded on Arabic Authorities.

GIVES a preliminary notice of the History and Geography of Arabia, Muhammed's early years, intercourse with Christians, marriage, first converts, wars, &c,-the facts are based on the researches of Sprenger, Caussin de Perceval, Weil and Muir, and give not what Europeans think ought to be, but what has been, as admitted by Arab writers themselves. It is of vital consequence in discussions with the Moslems to state nothing about their founder which is not derived from facts drawn from Arab sources.

Adea's Anglo-Bengali Dictionary. 1854.

A WORK valuable for natives studying English, or for Europeans learning to translate.

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Memoir of the Rev. J. J. Weitbrecht. Nisbett, London, 1854.

THE name of Weitbrecht will awaken affectionate and sorrowful recollections in the breasts of many that read it. It is so lately that he was amongst us; he was so familiar, and so dear to very many, that we can scarcely feel it a reality that we have now before us a Memoir, compiled and published in England, of one who was living and moving in the midst of us here in Bengal, as it were, but yesterday.

Yet so it is: and the volume is a very substantial and respectable one, compiled evidently with considerable industry and care, and by no means deficient in the most lively interest, as far, at least, as a very rapid and partial perusal enables us as yet to form an opinion.

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The work comes doubly recommended by a Preface from the pen of the Rev. Henry Venn, Honorary Clerical Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, with which Mr. Weitbrecht had been connected during his whole Indian life, and by a sort of Introduction from our friend the Rev. A. M. W. Christopher (some time Principal of La Martiniere Institution in Calcutta,) who had a principal hand in the editing of the Memoir, which was compiled by Mr. Weitbrecht's widow. But in truth it needs not, as appears to us, so much gentleman-ushering into the audience chamber of public attention. is a manly strength of character, a straightforward frankness and honesty of purpose, a vigorous good sense, and a warm and solid piety about the subject of it, that appear in his very physiognomy,— of which, by the way, a good engraving adorns the volume,-and are quite sufficient of themselves to secure a reception with the reading public. Indeed, the popular verdict has already been pronounced intelligibly enough in the rapid sale of an impression of 3,000 copies, and the immediate demand for another, which is now in course of preparation, if not already published.

We had contemplated including in our present Number a somewhat more extended notice of this acceptable piece of Christian and Missionary Biography, coupled with a brief sketch of some of the leading features of the Society, with which its subject was so long connected, and which plays so conspicuous a part in the Missionary operations of India. Circumstances, however, beyond our control, have prevented the present fulfilment of our expectation : but we fully purpose to take it up in our next Issue; and in the meantime commend the Memoir itself to the regard of our readers.

SANDERS, CONES AND CO., TYPS., NO. 65, COSSITOLLAH.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

Missions in South India visited and described. By Joseph Mullens, Missionary of the London Missionary Society in Calcutta. London,

1854.

THE author of this work is well known amongst us, as a most diligent collector of facts, and as a man well able to read the lessons which these facts are fitted to teach. His articles, that have appeared in our pages, and in those of a cotemporary publication, the Calcutta Christian Observer, during the last few years, have become a sort of authoritative Hand-book on all points respecting the statistics of Missions and the Results of Missionary labor in India. From the frequency with which we have seen them quoted in works published both in this country and in England, we should say that they have gone further to supply a felt want than any other articles that we have had the honor to present to the reading and thinking world, since the Calcutta Review came into existence * The work before us is worthy of the name and well-established reputation of its author. We cannot at present enter upon a review of the book; but we shall present our readers with a few extracts selected at random. The following passage describes the route followed by our author :

THE WRITER'S JOURNEY.

To describe in full the numerous incidents of the writer's journey through so large a portion of the Madras Presidency, is not the purpose of these lectures; but, in order to shew the authority upon which many statements are made, and many descriptions offered, it may be useful to give a mere outline of the course which that journey took, and the places which I visited.

In going down the Bay of Bengal, towards Madras, the ship stayed a week at Vizag patam. I thus had the opportunity of examining the oldest Telugu Mission in the country, and of receiving from Mr. Gordon the oldest missionary, and from his brethren, much information concerning the progress of other missions since established. After a short stay in Madras, during which I saw almost all the missionaries of that city, I set out on my journey into the interior. In order to make the best use of my limited time and to prevent the necessity of going over the same ground twice in certain places, I proceeded in the place straight westward into the very heart of the Presidency, to Bangalore: visiting on the way the town of Arcot and the celebrated temples at Conjeveram. At Bangalore I met all the missionaries, both of the Wesleyan and London Societies, and visited their chapels, press and schools. Thence I went south to Mysore, where there is a Wesleyan Mission; went over the palaces of Hyder and Tippu at Seringapatam: saw the gateway where Tippu was killed, and visited their celebrated tombs. Crossing "the valley of death," a jungle twenty-five miles deep, resembling the pestilential Terai at the base of the Himalaya, I entered the Neilgherry Hills on the north side, and spent two days at Ootacamund.

We betray no confidence in naming Mr. Mullens as the author of the article on the Results of Missions, in No. XXXI. of the Calcutta Review, as it has been reprinted in England with his name.

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Four miles from Ootacamund at Kaily, the residence of the late Mr. Casamajor, I saw the German Mission which he established and the villages of Badagas, for whom it was specially designed. Descending the Nilgherry Hills on the east side by the splendid Pass of Konoor, I came down into the eastern plains to the London Mission at Coimbatoor, being the first missionary from Bengal that had ever visited those parts. I then passed through the great gap in the Ghauts, at Palgaut, to the west coast of India, and reached Trichoor, the most northerly station of the Church Missionary Society among the Syrian Christians of Travancore. Thence I sailed down the Backwater' to Cochin, passing on the way numerous Roman Catholic Churches, in the island of Verapoli and its neighbourhood. In Cochin I visited the Jewish synagogue with Mr. Laseron its missionary and also his Jewish school. Thence I proceeded to Cottayam, the head quarters of the Syrian Mission, and saw its handsome Gothic Churches, its excellent schools and useful press. I visited also Mavelikari, one of the most flourishing stations, and thence proceeded to Quilon. In these parts I travelled close to the western coast, often along the sea beach itself, looking over the broad waters of the Indian Ocean which stretch away without interruption to the coast of eastern Africa. Leaving Quilon, which has been for thirty years a station of the London Missionary Society in Travancore, I proceeded to Trovandrum, another station, the residence of the Raja of Travancore, who sent the ivory throne to the Great Exhibition : thence I went to areychaley, a third station of the London Mission, and concluded the first portion of my journey by arriving finally at Nagercoil, the head-quarters of the mission, a few miles from Cape Comorin. I spent a fortnight among these interesting missions, visiting all their chief stations in turn; greatly enjoying the society of the missionaries in whose charge they lie. After a visit to Cape Comorin, 1 set out on my return to Madras by coming up the east coast, and through the Tamil country. I first spent twelve days among the many stations in Tinevellu; and then went on to Madura, Dindigul and other stations of the American Mission. Thence I proceeded to Trichinopoly, where Swartz lived and Heber died; and to Tanjore, where Swartz is buried. I next visited Negapatam and saw both the Wesleyan mission and Jesuit College; and thence continued my journey to the oldest mission in India, that at Tranquebar. Passing the temples of Chillumbrum; the old Mission at Cuddalore, founded by Mr. Kiernander; the Jesuit College in Pondicherry; and the Seven Pagodas at Mavalipuram, I proceeded to Madras, which I reached after an absence of twelve weeks. In this journey I travelled thirteen hundred and sixty miles; including Madras, I saw altogether FIFTY Missionary STATIONS and ninety MISSIONARIES. [As an illustration of the extent to which Missions are now carried on in Hindustan, I may state that I have myself seen and spoken to no less than one hundred and ninty-four living Indian missionaries; in addition to twenty-seven others who have died or left the country]

I cannot conclude this short sketch of my interesting and delightful journey without grateful y recording the kid and hospitable manner in which I was everywhere received. The missionary brethren of all Societies welcomed me with the utmost cordiality, and in many cases. though personally a stranger, seemed to regard me as an old friend. This kind reception arose probably from the correspondence I had previously had with them when compiling my missionary statistics in previous years. They entered readily into my enquiries and gave me much information concerning the history, condition and prospects of their different spheres of labour. We were able to compare notes on the character and difficulties of missionary work in different parts of Hindustan and to derive therefrom mutual instruction and mutual encouragement. I was also greatly pleased to hear the cordial manner in which they spoke of each other's labours. Though belonging to many Societies. they know each other personally, join in common labours and make use of each other's works. This cordial union is nothing new in India, but I mention it as a patent fact which struck me both as excellent in itself, and as a token of the future success of their common labours. The pleasure of my visits to so many of the labourers in the Lord's vineyard, and the impressions which they made upon my heart will, I trust, abide with me as long as life lasts.

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Our readers will be pleased with the following graphic description of :

THE GHAUTS.

The Telugu country is separated from the high land of central India, by a rugged belt of mountains called the Ghauts. Whoever therefore wishes to go from the plains of the Carnatic into the Mysore, must pass through the mountain chain. These Ghauts are in most places immense conical hills varying from six hund ed to eleven hundred feet in height they run generally in a direction from North East to South West. In some parts they stand close together; the few ravines are abrupt; and the rugged fronts of these rocky hills present an almost perpendicular wall to the traveller. In other places the ravines are wider, and allow opportunities for constructing carriage roads. A few of the passes are easy of ascent, but the maj rity are very difficult. The belt of Ghauts varies from three to ten miles in depth; and in passing through this district or along its face, the traveller sees near and around him nothing but these majestic hills. Sometimes they seem to be following each other like mighty waves over the lands sometimes they form a solid barrier to all advance. Their individual appearance greatly varies. Some are covered with jungle to the very summit: others are more bare, and from the loose masses of bleached rock lying upon their surface, seem at a distance covered with well-built towns. Some have only broken fragments of rock scattered over their grassy slopes: but others are adorned with mighty boulders that assume the most singular forms. Of these boulders some resemble huge heads, or solid cottages, or hulls of ships: all are of granite, bla kened and weather-worn by the storms of thousands of years. Whose hand scattered them there in such profusion? From the day when the first aborigines that took possession of the land, walked in their midst, all changes in Indian Society have passed before their eyes. The Brahmin and the Khetriya passed through them to conquer the first owners of the soil. Before them the Mogul seized the Brahmin's patrimony. Through them the Mahrattas on their swift horses carried off the plunder of the plains; and Hyder and Tippu fought battles at their feet. They have seen injustice, oppression and war, and before G d are witnesses. Man has passed away; generation has followed generation; but the hills abide there still. Their very stability is to us an element of comfort. Solid and long enduring as they have been, "the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed; but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever." That word has said that the knowledge of the Lord SHALL cover the earth. All nations shall serve HIM."

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Our next extract is a quotation made by Mr. Mullens from a statement by the Rev. Mr. Hardey of Bangalore :

When I came to Bangalore, three years ago, it was next to impossible to speak for five minutes without interruption from a low class, who were not satisfied with interrupting merely, but abused us before the whole assembly, which was not to be endured if we wished to stand our ground and be respected in the streets. I determined to put a stop to this in the beginning, and very soon an opportunity offered. One evening whilst we were preaching, standing on an elevation, which I always aim at doing, a profligate-looking man, mounted the elevation on the opposite side of the street; and pulling out a book from under his cloth, he marched backward and forward, and imitating our intonations of voice, made use of much abusive language, and called me such foul names, that it was with diffi. culty I could restrain my Catechist. Several Brahmins entreated me to go away, saying, it was not proper for a European gentleman to stand and hear himself thus abused. I continued, however, to address the people. By this time at least two hundred persons had assembled; and when I was leaving, the man evidently became alarmed at having used so much abusive language, and began walking quickly down the street. I went over to the Choultry opposite, and pointing out the man, desired the policeman to seize him. He ran and quickly turned the man's face towards the multitude, who were now all anxiety to see what was to be done. As soon as he was brought to the Choultry, I said to the standers by ; So long as I was preaching I bore with this man's abuse, but now I will shew you that 1 am

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