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Robert Needham Cust, 1821-1909
Provides an in-depth characterization of one family that both benefitted and suffered from the British-Indian connection. The volume seeks to make a contribution to Victorian biography and to intellectual history.
A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies
A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies by Robert Needham Cust. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1878 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies
Excerpt from A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies: Accompanied by Two Language-Maps The studious reader of Mr. Arnold's verse will have added richly to his store of Oriental knowledge infused in every page of this delightful volume. N 0 other English poet has ever thrown his genius and his art so thoroughly into the work of translating Eastern ideas as Mr. Arnold has done in his splendid paraphrases of language contained in these mighty epics. - Daily Telegraph. The poem abounds with imagery of Eastern luxuriousness and sensuousness; the air seems laden with the spicy odours of the tropics, and the verse has a richness and a melody sufficient to captivate the senses of the dul...
'Only Connect'
In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.
Africa
This set provides a fascinating insight into the early study of African languages and religion. Robert Needham Cust's encyclopedic Sketch of Modern Languages of Africa divides languages into sub-groups and examines the characteristics of each language; his studies include the Bantu family, the Khoisian group and the Hottentot Bushman group. Hahn's Tsuni-Goam: the supreme being of the IKhoi-khoi written in 1880, is a valuable study of the religion and culture of the Khoi, paying particular reference to their language.
The Calcutta Review
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Science
Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting.
