Among these may be mentioned those of Max Mueller, Bunsen, Burnouf, Doellinger, Hardwicke, St.Hilaire, Duencker, F.C.Baur, Renan, Creuzer, Maurice, G.
W.Cox, and others.
In America, except Mr.Alger's admirable monograph on the "Doctrine of the Future Life," we have scarcely anything worthy of notice.

Mrs.Lydia Maria Child's work on the "Progress of Religious Ideas" deserves the greatest credit, when we consider the time when it was written and the few sources of information then accessible.[2] Twenty-five years ago it was hardly possible to procure any adequate information concerning Brahmanism, Buddhism, or the religions of Confucius, Zoroaster, and Mohammed.

Hardly any part of the Vedas had been translated into a European language.

The works of Anquetil du Perron and Kleuker were still the highest authority upon the Zendavesta.

About the Buddhists scarcely anything was known.