Oriental Studies [pp. 273-332]

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JUL1O~
SOUTIlERN QUARTERL~ REYlEW.
-~ APRIL, MDCCCLIII.
VOL. VII. NEW SERIES. No. XIV.
WllOLE NUMBER, XLVI.
ART. I.-ORIENTAL STUDIES.
Journal of the Amerkan Oriental Society (first and second
volumes). New-York and London: Published for il~e Society
by George Putnam. Paris: llector Bossange. 1551. 2 vols.
8vo.
As a Southerner, we cannot repress a feeling of mortification at
the reflection that, however justly we may be proud of the intellect and
chivalry which our annals can display, we are compelled to confess
a miserable doficiency in any well-organized efforts to further the
cause of learning. ~Ye do not believe, that the ordinary advantages
of education n our schools and colleges, are inferior to those presented in similar institutions, in any part of our Confederacy; we
can, nevertheless, boast of no libraries or learned societies, like those
which exist in some parts of our Union. It does not fall within the
scope of the present design, to investigate the causes of this deficiency; but, it is a discourag~ng fact, that even in one of our principal Southern seats of refinement and intellectual culture-the city
of Charleston~any man who was devoted to the pursuits of scholarship and learning, would find no library furnishing, in only a moderate degree, the necessary apparatus for his investigations; and
no learned society or association to sympathize with, and aid him
in his peculiar avocations. But, however mortifying this local deficiency may be, it is a gratifyiiig circumstance, that there are in
Amen en such associations as that whose Journal is inscribed in our
rubric.
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