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Copyright, 1906, by

THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY.

The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press.

CONTENTS

OF

TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME,

FIRST HALF.

Page

THE VIDDHAŠALABHANJIKĀ OF RAJASEKHARA, NOW FIRST TRANSLATED

FROM THE SANSKRIT AND PRĀKRIT.-By Dr. Louis H. GRAY,

Newark, N. J...

1

SEVEN EMENDATIONS OF THE TEXT OF THE RIGVEDA.-By MAURICE

BLOOMFIELD, Professor in the Johns Hopkins University, Balti-

more, Md.....

72

THE ABOLITION OF THE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS IN CHINA.- By

JOHN C. FERGUSON, Ph.D., Shanghai, China...

79

AN ASSYRIAN GRAMMATICAL TREATISE ON AN OMEN TABLET; C. T. 20,

PP. 39-42.-By STEPHEN LANGDON, Ph.D., Columbia University,

New York City

88

ON BLOODY SACRIFICES IN PALESTINE.-By HANS H. SPOER, Ph.D.,

Meadville, Pa.

104

DESCRIPTION OF THE CASE OF THE ROLL OF A SAMARITAN Pentateuch.

-By HANS H. SPOER, Ph.D., Meadville, Pa..

105

THE METRICAL FORM OF THE SONGS OF DEGREES.-By Dr. T. C. FOOTE,

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md....

WHEN AND WHERE WAS THE CODE HAMMURABI PROMULGATED?-By

DAVID GORDON LYON, Professor in Harvard University, Cambridge,

Mass.

108

123

THE SEAL IMPRESSIONS ON An Early BabyLONIAN CONTRACT (Harvard

SEMITIC MUSEUM, No. 109).-By DAVID G. LYON, Professor in Har-

vard University, Cambridge, Mass.

135

THE INFIXES LA, LI, LO IN TAGALOG.-BY LOUIS B. WOLFENSON, Johns

Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md..........

142

DID THE BABYLONIAN TEMPLES HAVE LIBRARIES ?-BY MORRIS JASTROW,

Jr., Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, Pa..

EXPRESSION OF CASE BY THE VERB IN TAGALOG.-By FRANK R. BLAKE,

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

TEXTUAL NOTES ON THE OLD PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS.-By Professor A.

V. W. JACKSON, Columbia University, New York City...

RACE AND CUSTOM IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.-By Miss MARGA-

RETTA MORRIS, of Philadelphia..

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