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About The Book : A Very useful little book compiled by Professor Max Muller for the assistance of officers in learning the languages of the Seat of War in the east. It does not profess to be complete or elaborate but it gives in a plain and succinct way all that author knows of the nature of the eastern languages, and their philological and geographical connection. Some short and sensible suggestion and directions as to the method and the best books employed in acquiring the various languages are added which we should think would be found very useful. This book was chiefly intended for Englishmen, employed in the civil or military services of the east, as a guide through the lybrinth of the various races and languages with which they are brought in contact. The most attractive part of this work seems to us that which treats on the third and least known family of languages the Turanian etc