PROSPECTUS OF THE BOMBAY QUARTERLY REVIEW. EARLY in January next, the first number of a new periodical work with the above title, will be published in Bombay. Its pages will be open to the free exposition and discussion of all subjects of interest, literary, social, and in the largest sense of the term-political. The spirit of inquiry which of late has been manifested by the educated classes in England, in every thing that relates to India, has produced a demand for trustworthy information regarding its history, its institutions, its condition, and its people, which the current literature of the East, at present, does not adequately supply. A Review conducted with conspicuous ability has existed for some years in Calcutta, but it has hitherto devoted its chief attention to the valley of the Ganges, and the Punjab. It is thought, therefore, that another periodical, which on Indian Questions shall seek to cooperate with, rather than to rival the Bengal publication, is demanded from the intelligence, the public spirit, and the increasing importance of Western India. The projectors of the Bombay Quarterly Review, however, by no means desire that it should possess an exclusively Oriental character. They believe that the time, if not arrived, is rapidly approaching, when an Indian periodical should open its columns to matter of universal interest. If, on the one hand, the results of modern science have of late years brought India into such close proximity with Europe, as to have awakened in our countrymen at home a deeper sympathy with their Indian fellow subjects; on the other, the same influences must insensibly attract attention in India to the great questions of European interest, and the educated Native may often be tempted to seek information in the pages of a local publication when disinclined to study, or embarrassed to select works, wholly of European character, and addressed exclusively to European readers. To aid English enquirers in collecting accurate and practical knowledge of this, the greatest dependency of the British Empire, to |