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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 

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 

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 ...

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 ...

REVIEWS

... UpwVind THE WISDOM 'OF THE EAST.* SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, in his- preface, observes that Sa'di was the Horace and Marco Polo of Persia, and his version indeed impresses one much as do versions 6f Horace. Sa'di is, they say, a classic by his style; one of the ...

LITERATURE

... upon to mourn wit% re, We are -not sirprised that the friends who watcedlk with interest the result of her bold experiment at Bab-el-Bahar, should desire to know more about its results, for it was an experiment well calculated to arouse the curiosity of ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... northern shores of the Caspian and Black Seas, as far as Moldavia; and, on the south, the desert tracts which cross Klorisdn and Persia, extending from KhwArazm to Kirmain, are Possessed by the Ilimits or tribes of migratory Tiirks, as indeed they have been ...

LITERATURE

... on a higher level in of Ciro and Dimascus then either in Paris or in London. Science and art were cultivated in Syria and Persia with at least as much succegr as in Europe. In the former as well as in the latter, Aristotle was studied, jurisprudence e ...