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5. GRAUL, KARL. Outline of Tamil Grammar. Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1855. 101 P. 6. LAZARUS JOHN, A Tamil Grammar Designed for use in Colleges and Schools. John Sno and Co., Trubner and Co., London, 1878. vii. 230 P. 7. RHENIUS. C.T.E. A Grammar of the Tamil Language with an Appendix. Printed at the Church Mission Press, Madras. 1836 ix, vi, 294 P. 8. ZIEGENBALG, BARTHOLOMAEUS. Grammatica Damulica (1716) xii, 128 P. (Tamil Grammar). We have been faced with some practical difficulties In the printing of this work. Some pages in the last portion of the work are interspersed with old letters and symbols for numerals, measures and weights, which were commonly in vogue in Tamil script till the last century. These symbols, not being in current use, it became impossible to secure the appropriate types for these. In our desire not to deprive our readers of an acquaintance with those scripts, as used in the original, we have arranged to write them out, as neatly as possible. We hope that the readers will approve of this improvisation and accept our apologies for the same: We. are profoundly grateful to Mr. N. Maha lingam, B.Sc.,M.I.E., leading industrialist and great patron and promoter of humanistic and scientific studies, particularly of Tamil, for his generous gift to our library of the manuscript cony of the original printed edition of this: book which has served as the basis of this publication and of some other similar works which are not available at present.
