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APRIL, MAY, & JUNE, 1861.

BY MAX MÜLLER, M.A.

Correspondent de l'Institut de France; Foreign Member of the Royal Bavarian Academy; Honorary
Member of the Royal Society of Literature, of the Royal Asiatic Society, of the Asiatic Society
of Bengal, and of the Société d'Ethnographie de France; Corresponding Member of

the Royal Sardinian Academy, of the Royal Society of Göttingen, and of the

American Oriental Society; Member of the Asiatic Society of Paris,

and of the German Oriental Society; Taylorian Professor in

the University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College,

&c. &c.

Opera naturale è ch' uom favella;

Ma, così o così, natura lascia

Poi fare a voi, secondo che v' abbella.'

DANTE, Paradiso, 26, 130.

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