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Notes from the July Reviews

... Utcs from tbv 11112 ??MCbidas BAB AND BABIS THE assassination of the Shah of Persia has aroused in England a curiosity which two articles in the ANineteenth Century will do much to satisfy. Mr. J. D. Rees writes on the Bab and Babism, and explains who ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1896
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1104 | Page: 13 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

WESTERN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC [ill]

... minerals of Persia, It had, he said, but one gemi-the turquoise. Of its vegetable pro- ductions he observed, that it contained all proper to a tro- pical, as well as to a moderate climate. Few countries con- ttined iuiorte animals tluan did Persia, but the ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... the Court of Persia. Smith, Elder, and Co. Aiming especially to write a continuation of Sir John, Malcolm's 'History of Persia,' Mr Watson has wisely given up about a hundred pages of his book to a careful survey of the history of Persia during the eighteenth ...

Magazines

... of the Chinese ?? Vambery, who has always something to say worth the saying on Eastern matters, writes about The Turks in Persia and the Caucasus, and assures us that they are much more numerous there than is generally supposed. On a question which offers ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1886
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1410 | Page: 25 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

NEW BOOKS

... [Cambridge The University Press] It may be doubted if many, even of educated Englishmen, know anything at all about the Bab. The word BAb means in Arabic gate or I door, and it was temporarily assumed by a Mohammedan religious reformer, Miza ?? Mubammdd ...

THE READER

... there is a good deal of miscellaneous compilation about religion, education, climate, and travelling in Persia, among other things an account of the Bab Sect., which is not without interest. Messrs. Osgood and Co. send us from Boston a pretty little specimen ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1874
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1659 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

BONNY DUNDEE

... sndrdangerous sentimuent. Coestosnce bkeiself is exquisitely draw ?? -1Literosy Garzette.. . . ?? ]Iorier this author of ' Hajji Babs, hias just prepared ?? Edition of his nets production, lZoli- rob tbe Iloatige which is announced to appear imome- diately ...

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

... oth-er hand, the policy of England has been to a proinote the interest of Persia on all hands, without Id-sirimg to deprive her of a single foot of territory. i English traders in Persia- h-ve to meet the keen coDI- petition of both German and. Russian rivals ...

MUSIC HALL GOSSIP

... countries, have been all through Russia, Persia, Turkey Asia Minor, Egypt, part of Africa, and every country in Europe. They performed privately for the Imperial Family of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia, the Khedive of Egypt, and some members ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1892
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1908 | Page: 17 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

ODDS AND ENDS

... ctire years 1830 and 1844, the cnrorcnus sum of:1OS,000 sterling in advertising his nostraln. Tire CIOLERA. - Letters frees Persia statc that this dreadful diisesc is making friglitfel iivaoges itl thie interior of A-ia. This corege sekich lhas travelled ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... to ito. virtue. Mr. Bentley is also the publisher of, Ayeaha, oyS by the author of 1 Haj ii Babs. In this new work Mr. lot: Motter has quitted Persia. but still laid the scene of it in the the East. This woo judicious, on account of the author's ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... influence in Persia will become predominant, and in that case Herit guarded by Persia would soon become in all respects Russian. The idea, then, of forming of the valley of the Herirdd a neutral zone between Russia and England, of which Persia should be ...