Oriental and Linguistic Studies ( 2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I : The Veda; The Avesta; The Science of Language : 1. The Vedas. 2. The Vedic doctrine of a future life. 3. Muller’s history of Vedic literature. 4. The translation of the Veda. 5. Muller’s Rig-Veda translation. 6. The Avesta. 7. Indo-European philology and ethnology. 8. Muller’s lectures on language. 9. Present state of the question as to the origin of language. 10. Bleek and the Simious theory of language. 11. Schleicher and the physical theory of language. 12. Steinthal and the psychological theory of language. 13. Language and education. Index.

Vol. II : The East and West; Religion and Mythology; Orthography and Phonology; Hindu Astronomy : 1. The British in India. 2. China and the Chinese. 3. China and the West. 4. Muller’s chips from a German workshop. 5. Cox’s Aryan mythology. 6. Alford’s Queen’s English. 7. How shall we spell? 8. The elements of English pronunciation. 9. The relation of vowel and consonant. 10. Bell’s visible speech. 11. On the accent in Sanskrit. 12. On the lunar zodiac of India, Arabia, and China. Index.