... deeply indebted to Mr. Browne for this excellent piece of translation. As the religion of the Bab has had its origin among the Shiites of Persia, and Persia is the only Shiite kingdom in the world, it is scarce like to prove an important factor any otherwhere ...

... THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. JULY 1898. Russia, Persia, and England. By Sir LEPEL GRIFFIN, K.C.S.I. A Warning to Imperalists. By Mrs. LECKV. Commercial Union of the Empire. By Sir FREDERICK YOUNG K. C. M.G. (Vice-President of Royal Colonial Institute). Reformation ...

... the older Bab. An initial difficulty for the purely Western student is raised by the fact that Mr. Browne has not explained with sufficient clearness the difference between Babis and Behais. He holds that the total number of Babis in Persia is nearly ...

... had become practically acquainted in Persia, and from which I believed (as I still believe) that results yet more wonderful might be expected in the future. At the latter place I hoped to converse with one whom the Bab had recognised as his immediate successor ...

... THE PERSIAN BAlliS T HE subject of the of Persia, however attractive to a certain number of Englishmen, cannot be said to have yet engaged the attention of the many; nor is it likely that Mr. Browne's elaborate notice of this interesting sect, which was ...

... discomfited hobgoblin, but never yet saw I a two-headed man.' Mr. Browne seems to have been chiefly attracted by the faiths of Persia, and he heckled their exponents with doughty pertinacity. Hence he gives a perspicuous account of the mysticism and magic ...