... The latter road would no doubt be the more eligible of the two, but would require the permission and concurrence of the Persian Shah. Negotiations opened at Teheran have produced no very palpable results. PRINCE BISMARCIK IN VIENNA. I A Berlin telegraim ...

... and his whole suite will li-i the guests of lbe Sultan. This is the first occasion since the conquest of BDigrlad that a Persian Shah has isnale his surneareace on ?? irhb soil, and there is souse tor at Con. stntiapope of taking the opportunity for proposing ...

... 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 ...