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Title: Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12

Author: Various

Editor: Charles Dudley Warner

Release Date: May 9, 2010 [EBook #32308]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _JAVANESE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT._

The origin of the Oceanic dialects, and of those of India
beyond the Ganges more especially the civilized idioms of the
Indian Archipelago, is referred to a language which was that
of an unknown people inhabiting the island of Java. From this
primitive language the modern Javanese is supposed to be
immediately derived. Javanese literature consists of poems,
dramas, songs, and historical and religious writings. The
accompanying facsimile is from a mythological-religious tract
written upon a vegetable paper of native manufacture, and
ornamented with grotesque drawings.]

LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

EDITOR

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE
GEORGE HENRY WARNER

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Connoisseur Edition

VOL. XII.

NEW YORK
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

Connoisseur Edition

LIMITED TO FIVE HUNDRED COPIES IN HALF RUSSIA

_No_. ..........

Copyright, 1896, by
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M., LL. D.,
Professor of Hebrew, HAR