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...University Press announces the publication of volumes 18 and 19 of the Harvard Oriental Series," of which Professor C. R. Lanman is editor. These latest books are translations by A. B. Keith, D.C.L., D.Litt., author of "Responsible Government the Dominions," of "The Veda of the Black Yagius School...
...Translation of the Atharva-Veda," by Professor W. D. Whitney h.'76, late of the Sanskrit Department of Yale, will soon be published in the Harvard Oriental Series by the University. Professor Whitney died in 1894, leaving the work unfinished. The manuscript was then turned over to Professor C. R. Lanman, of the Department of Indic. Philology, and editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, who has spent over five years in completing, revising, and editing it. Professor Whitney's translation of the nineteen books of the Atharva-Veda is an extremely close and literal English version. Exclusive of the matter...
...weeks to the West Indies. He will reach Port Antonio, Jamaica, on Sunday and will remain on the Island until February 4, when he will return to Cambridge, arriving on Sunday, February 8. Professor Lanman has just completed the final revision of the great critical commentary, the Atharva Veda, of the late Professor W. D. Whitney of Yale. The work constitutes two royal octavo volumes of about eleven hundred pages and is being published by Ginn and Company...
Last June the Harvard Corporation sent to Yale a gift of books which consisted principally of a translation from the Sanskrit of the Atharva Veda. The translation was made, shortly before his death, by the late Professor W. D. Whitney of Yale, and contained a text with critical and exegetical commentary. As the translation was incomplete at the time of the author's death, a large amount of work was necessary before it could be published. This task, including revision and editing, was undertaken by Charles R. Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard, and a graduate of Yale. The necessary...
ORIENTAL LANGUAGES. 1. Was Mohammed at all an impostor? 2. Are the germs of the doctrine of the transmigation of Souls to be found in the Rig Veda? 3. Traces of Babylonia Assyrian influence on Greek culture...