THE

BOMBAY QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. V.

JANUARY AND APRIL,

1857.

BOMBAY:

SMITH, TAYLOR, AND CO.

LONDON-SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

MD CCCLVII.

CONTENTS OF No. IX.

ART.

I. ALLEN AND MORRIS ON THE HISTORY

OF INDIA

1. India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, His-

torical, Political, Social, and Religious; with

a particular Account of the State and Prospects

of Christianity. By DAVID O. ALLEN, D.D.,

Missionary of the American Board, for twenty-

five years in India; Member of the Bombay

Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and

Corresponding Member of the American Oriental

Society. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. Cleve-

land, Ohio: Jewett, Procter, and Worthington.

New York: Sheldon, Lampart, and Blakenham.

London Trübner & Co. 1856. Pp. 618.

2. The History of India. By HENRY MORRIS,

M.C.S. Madras: Printed and published for

the Madras School-book Society, and sold at

their Depository, College of Fort George.

Church-of-Scotland Mission Press; 1856. Pp.

276.

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II. THE DAMS AND RIVERS OF KHANDESH... 48

Italian Irrigation, being a Report on the Canals of

Piedmont and Lombardy. By R. BAIRD SMITH,

F.G.S., Captain of Engineers, Bengal Presi-

dency. William Blackwood and Sons, Edin-

burgh and London; 1855.

III. PROFESSOR AYTOUN.............

Bothwell; A Poem in six parts. By W. EDMOND-

STOUNE AYTOUN, D.Č.L., Author of Lays

of the Scottish Cavaliers," &c.

Sons; 1856.

Blackwood and

1.

73

IV. THE EXODUS OF THE INDIAN EXILE...... 119

1. The Anglo-Indian Passage, Homeward and Out-

ward; or a Card for the Overland Traveller