... discussion in the English press. Mirza Malkom Khan has been sent St Petersburg to announce the arrival in April of the Persian Shah. The Shah will visit St Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Paris, and return home by Constantinople, A letter from ...

... for King (see Forbes’s “Persian Grammar’). Fiirst, in his “Chaldee Lexicon” writes Achas—Khßha, equivalent to Ksbja, new Persian Shah—that is, King. Artaxerxes (Chaldee, Artachsast v) —‘mighty ruler.’ Arta, a frequent prefix to the names of Eastern potentates ...

... painted, be-jewelled, are very attractive, all the more so that they are already antiquarian, even though Russian Czars and Persian Shahs keep up the old practice of presenting diamond snuff boxes to those whom they wish honour, if snuff taking were still general ...