CRITICISM OF THE NEW SANSCRIT READER.

Dr. Humphries says of Professor Lanman's new book that the want has been strongly felt for a practical Sanskrit reader with graduated passages, and with such aids and explanations as would enable the student to prosecute the study of the language with only occasional, if any, assistance from a teacher. This want Professor Lanman undertook some years ago to supply, and he has performed his task with great ability and success. The writer, himself but a tyro, and a "rusty" one, in Sanskrit, has long felt the want of such a book as this, and believes it will be warmly welcomed by students and teachers, and the increasing body of visitors to India. The work has been specially prepared to meet the wants of unaided, private study. The author emphatically declares this, and the work bears out the promise of his words. As a classical teacher and a Sanskrit learner, whose opinion may probably have some weight with his brethren, and with others who may wish to study this noble language, the writer does not hesitate to commend this scholarly and well-arranged book as the most practical and serviceable work of the kind known to him. By its assistance in conjunction with Professor Whitney's excellent grammar, students will be able to acquire a fair knowledge of Sanskrit with much greater pleasure and ease than formerly.