... were ahsoulutelv devoid of anything approaching enthusiasm. They went for the same reason that they would have gone to see Persian Shah, an Indian Nabob, or a King Cetawayo; and, looking upon the spectacle, I was forcibly reminded of the truth of Thomas Carlyle's ...

... informed with ri regard at any rate to the views and statements of t. the opposition, if such a term. can be used of I ,, Persian ?? Shah of Persia is nearly I is, played out. He drinks a bottle of brandy a day. H 1e : c eonsumes hashish and oplum freely. ...

... accommodate a fourth of their number. Miss Nikita is said to be engaged to marry Mirza Riza Khan, an aide-de-camp of the Persian Shah, and has made it one of the conditions of her espousal of him that she shall be free to follow her profession during ire ...

... absoulutely devoid of any- thing approaching enthusiasm. They went for the same reason that they would have gone to see a Persian Shah, au Indian Nabob, or a King Ceca- wayo; and, looking upon the spectacle, I was forcibly reminded of the truth of Thomas ...

... “chose” is derived, boro reference to the king or chief piece, whose “clieckmate” is merely an Knglish version of the Persian “ shah-mat’’—that is, the king is dead. Chess and cards alike come to the West from the East; for centuries tho Italians spoke ...