... article here is a Imagniticent ivory work-box, elaborately carved with net-work. This is said to have been a present fromi a Persian Shah to the Emperor Rodolph II., aid was long preserved in the Reichsschatz, at lienna, but being accidentally broken, the ...

... grudge to Russia the possession of the Persian deserts, although it would make her a still nearer neighbour. Even now, the Persian Shah is, like the Austrian Cxsar, little more than the vassal of the CZAR; and Khiva, on the high road to Herat, is said to ...

... The finest article is magnificent ivory work-box, elaborately carved with net-work. This is said have been present from a Persian Shah to the En.i*eror Rudolph 11., and wan long preserved the Reichrscuatz, Vienna, bat being accidentally broken, tbe fragments ...