Here again comes a Persian of the old school with arched embroidered turban of white silk, white "aba" or undercoat reaching to the ankles, open grey "shaya," and soft yellow leather shoes; and he is followed by Persians of the modern school in small stiff black hats, dark coats drawn in at the waist, and English trousers and boots.

Speaking of the Victoria Gardens at Bombay, he says:"A true Persian in flowing robe of blue, and on his head his sheep-skin hatblack, glossy, curled, the fleece of Kar-Kalwould saunter in, and stand and meditate over every flower he saw, and always as if half in vision.

But the heritage of "Rûm" is not the final factor in the Ottoman Empire as it exists to-day; for after the successors of Osman had founded their military monarchy with blood and iron on the ruins of one-third of Europe, they turned eastwards, with a genuinely Oriental gesture, and overran kingdoms and lands with the apparently mechanical impetus of all Asiatic conquerors, from Sargon of Akkad and Cyrus the Persian to Jenghis Khan and Timur.

The Persian on his throne!" Lord Byron A CHRISTMAS CAROL As Joseph was a-walking, He heard an angel sing, "This night shall be the birth-time Of Christ, the heavenly king.

These seafaring islands on the eve of the modern Greek Revolution were an exact reproduction of the Aigina, Korinth, and Athens which repelled the Persian from Ancient Greece.

After reading Persian for a short time in Paris with De Sacy, and after the failure of a plan of travel with Mr. Astor of New York, Bunsen joined Niebuhr at Florence in the end of 1816, and went on with him to Rome, where Niebuhr was Prussian envoy.

It was when the baronet put the false stone in the pocket of a loose gown for the purpose of confronting the Persian with it.

An English-speaking Persian at Bushire told me that, with the exception of the women of the wandering Eeliaut tribes, there were few chaste wives in Persia.

Nicolas Witsen, a learned burgomaster of Amsterdam, has inserted this curious journey, in his curious work, "Of North and East Tartary," Having translated it for that purpose from the Persian into Dutch.

'But, after all, there is far better evidence of the non-possession of the stone by the Persian than all thisand that is the murder of the baronet, for I can almost promise you that our messenger will return in a few minutes.

Of the cap we can be sure; for from the fact that, on leaving his room at midnight to follow the Persian through the house, he put it on his head, I gather that he wore it habitually during all his waking hours; yet after Ul-Jabal has left him he wanders far and wide "with uncovered head."

Undertakings of Artaxerxes the Persian against the Parthians and Romans (chapters 3, 4).