Content: Life of Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru .Guru Gobind Singh against Idolatry .A Princess"s Discussion with a Brahman .Extracts from Bhai Nand Lal"s Writings .Zafarnama (the Guru"s Epistle to Aurangzeb) .Interview with Banda......Banda"s Career in the Panjab and DeathCompositions of Guru Gobind SinghExtracts from Aral Ustat .... Extracts from Vichitar Natak Introduction to the Hindu Incarnations Thirty-three Sawaiyas (Quatrains) Hazare Shabd . Chaupai . Ardas (supplication) . Rags, or Musical Measures of the Gurus" HymnsA portion of the Granth Sahib was translated some years since by a German^ missionary at the expense and under the auspices of the India office, but his work was highly inaccurate and un-idiomatic, and further more gave mortal offence to the Sikhs by the Odium theologicum introduced into it. Whenever he saw an opportunity of defaming the Gurus, the sacred book, and the religion of the Sikhs, the German missionary eagerly availed himself of it.One of the main objects of the work is to endeavour to make some reparation to the Sikhs for the insults which the German Missionary offered to the Sikh Gurus and the religion of the Sikhs.All persons of discrimination acquainted with the Sikhs set a high value on them, but it appears that a knowledge throughout the world of the excellence of their religion would enhance even the present regard with which they are entertained, and that thus this work would be at least of political advantage to them.In the second place, there is now a large number of Sikhs who understand the English language, but who have no time for the study of compositions of the Gurus, it would be useful to them, if only from a linguistic point of view, to read a translation in the very simple English in which it is written.In the third place, the old gyanis or professional interpreters of the Granth Sahib are dying out, and probably in...