Anniversary, 267, 317-Athens, with the Acropolis, | St. James's Palace, the King's Rooms, 57-Sandby's Works

E. D. Williamson, 186

and Collection, 731-Sass's (Mr.) Conversazioni, 186

Barry's (C.) Design for Brighton New Church, 251-Scottish Royal Academy, 8

Batty's (Capt.) Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery, 58, 509, Sculptures: Sievier's Crucifixion, 267; Mr. Lough's Milo

556, 683-Beechey's (Sir W.) Admiral Beresford, by and Samson, 299, 379

Hodgetts, 42-Bijou, Proof Impressions, 762-Birming-Sharp's (W.) Open your Mouth, by W. J. Taylor, 348-

ham Society of Arts, 651-Boy's Cornwall and Devonshire

Wrestling, by G. Reeve, 493-Brimmer's Useful Inven-

tion, 794-British Artists' Society Exhibition, 203, 219,

234, 250, 266, 492-British Gallery, 58, 73, 107, 123, 139,

155; His Majesty's Private Collection, 317, 332, 524-

British Institution, 380, 396, 410-Brockedon's Passes of
the Alps, 186, 571, 731-Buonaparte, Medallion of, 411
-Burgess's (H. W.) Eidodendron, 524-Burnet's (J.)
John Anderson my Jo, 683-Bury St. Edmond's, Saxon
Tower at, by Le Keux, 186-Busby's Terrestrial Plani-
sphere, 251

St. Vincent (B. de) on the Human Race, 651-Science,

Notices in, 23, 474, 700-Ships, project to save from

sinking, 810-Sierra Leone, appointment of a Lieut.-Gov.

at, 845-Society of Arts, 359, 731-Solar Spots, 7, 282

-South American Survey, under Capt. King, 475, 586

-South Seas, Expedition to, 794, 825-Steam Engines:

Perkins's, 235; Mr. Gurney's New Carriage, 347; Brown's

Gas Vacuum Engine, 394

Waterpipes, 7

Zimmermann's improved Fire-arms, 72-Zoological Soci Lodge's Portraits, 9, 171, 284, 509, 571, 715, 846-London,

Improvements in, 56, 202, 556, 633, 666-Lonsdale's Mr.
Campbell, by Reynolds, 42 Sir Humphry Davy, by
Worthington, 683-Lyon's (Capt. C. F.) Mexico, 475
Manchester Royal Institution, 300-Martin's Joshua, 317
-Medals, 186, 251-Melville Monument in Edinburgh,
539-Meyer's (F.) Miss I. Paton as the White Maid, by
G. F. Storm, 811.

Mezzotintos: Brockedon's Raffaelle, by C. Turner, 24;
Lane's Dr. Birkbeck, by H. Dawe, 107; Stephanoff's
Foundling, by ditto, 186; Fradelle's Olivia and Viola,
by Lupton, 186: Sir T. Lawrence's Mrs. Middleton, by
C. Turner, 219; Mr. Lambton's Son, ib.; Earl of Liver-
pool, ib.; Duke of Wellington, ib.; Haines's Captain
Parry, by S. W. Reynolds, 219; Turner's Ports of Eng-
land, 283; Porter's Don Quixote, 348; Fielding's Death
of Robin Hood, 443; Gouband's Rebecca, 443; Sir T.
Lawrence's Portrait of Mr. Canning, by C. Turner, 475;
Egerton's Will-o'-the-Wisp, by W. Giller, 539; C. Tur-
ner's Dr. Kitchiner, 715

Morison's (D.) Bust of Mr. Canning, 620-Moses's (H.)

Works of Canova, 589, 700-Murphy's Beauties of

Charles II.'s Court, 317

National Gallery, Marquess of Stafford's Present to, 683-

Newton's (G. S.) Lovers' Quarrel, 361; Girl with a

Hawk, 684

(R.) Devils at Home, 509-Nichol-

son's (F.) Loch Venachoir, 715; European Scenery, ib.
Old Masters, Sale of Pictures by, 171, 361

Petit Louvre, an Exhibition, 492-Pickersgill's (H. W.)
Portrait of Mr. Poole, by Clint, 493-Pictures in Fleet
Street, 204-Pinelli's Views in Rome, 332-Poynter's
Hospital of St. Catherine, by G. Reeve, 493
Rare Prints, Sale of, 155-Resignation, a Caricature, 349
-Robson's English Cities, 219, 509-Robinson's (F. A.)
Vitruvius, 746-Rome, British Artists in, 635-Royal
Academy, Exhibition, 283, 298, 348, 361, 379, 395, 442,
475, 747, 794, 811-Rugendas (M.) Voyage Pittoresque
dans le Brésil, 403

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Now, though Mr. Griffin, the quoted England could hardly have a more brilliant gree; and this it is, we think, which has caused eulogist of Dr. Bogue, may assert this fact, we epitaph than one which recorded a service like The Annual Biography and Obituary alone to put in our caveat against the belief that Dr. B.'s this to the cause of suffering humanity and maintain its place in public esteem, and go on three daughters grew up to manhood, in the literature: for ourselves, we do not estimate increasing in popularity from year to year, accepted sense of the expression; though as all Lord Pelham's political offices at a pin's while all similar works have speedily sunk into they grew up to be married to men, and man point, in comparison with this one unostentadisrepute. and wife are one flesh, there is no doubt tious, warm-hearted, and truly illustrious acThough during the preceding twelve months but the assertion may admit of grammatical tion, which has since wiped many a tear from Death's darts have certainly not flown so thick argument! But next comes our old friend Mic sorrowful eyes, and carried comfort into many a as they too often do among the great and the Kelly :-Dr. Bogue, when he met the heavy forlorn bosom. distinguished; there are seventeen memoirs, loss of his second son, is described as preaching derived from various sources, in this volume. funeral sermon for his own child, "in which all The principal subjects are, Lord Gifford, the the father appeared, supported and hallowed by Bishops of Durham and Calcutta, Sir Stamford all the saint:" and Kelly, when he lost the Raffles, Dr. Milner, Sir David Ochterlony, Von beautiful Mrs. Crouch, in 1805, (who had sepaWeber, &c. &c. 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His furlough us as being one of the fullest and best; though having expired, Mr. Kelly took his departure for there is much for curious speculation in the London, and played Henry in The Deserter.' details of the busy life of the Roman Catholic On his first appearance, he was received with bishop, Milner, which contrasts finely with the kind and sympathetic applause by his friends princely state of Durham, and more finely still and the audience; but he took a thorough diswith the apostolic piety of Heber. There are like to the stage, and resolved to quit it as soon other contrasts in a work like this, which do as he had made some necessary arrangements not fail to make their impression upon reflec-to enable him to do so."

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Were we able to make any selection by way of specimen from the volume before us, we should look to the clever and interesting sketch of Lord Gifford; but works like the present are so sure of being read, that we may safely leave these pages intact. We shall merely mention, that Sir T. Lawrence's fine wholelength portrait of him, for the city of Exeter (of which he was a native and recorder), was sufficiently advanced at the time of his decease, to ensure its becoming one of the most faithful and animated performances of that accomplished artist. Lord G.'s admirable reply in the late Queen Caroline's case, is justly pointed out as one of the greatest legal speeches that was ever delivered.

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Again we recommend the Annual Biography to our readers. The obituary is a short summary or index of deaths, compiled from origi tive minds. Thus the Independent clergyman Now, we take it not upon ourselves to be nal papers and contemporary publications :--a Bogue appears between the Veteran of Nepaul either the judges or the condemners of the gratifying tribute to those who have cast (Ochterlony), and the Veteran of the stage, Mic actions of our fellow-creatures, it is simply to longing, lingering look behind" for something Kelly; and we form, perhaps, a juster appre-illustrate the style of what must be in contem- of a fame, for which they may have struggled ciation of character, through the guise of ami-porary biographical writings, that we quote very strongly, though its louder blast has been cable and admiring biography, in consequence of these passages :-but does it not look as if there denied by circumstances to their efforts. In seeing how the soldier's, the preacher's, and the were entirely different orders of men in eist-reading it, a very common expression has struck actor's friends exalt their several merits, and ence? What would Dr. Bogue's auditors have us as susceptible of a rather ludicrous interprethrow into shadow the parts which even the said to Mr. Kelly's debut after his misfortune? tation:-such a one, who had four children, tombstone would not wish to obtrude upon memory. The style of the religious memoirs often raises a smile; while those of a lighter order may lead to graver reflection: thus, who can help

and what would Mr. Kelly's auditors have
thought of Dr. Bogue's funeral sermon? It is,
indeed, a strange world, my masters; and who
is there to decide-not knowing the heart, the
motives, the temptations-who is the hero, who
the coward,-who the sage, who the fool,-who
the saint, who the sinner? Let those who fancy
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studies.

Memoirs of Baber, is evidently not the same
The Jaghatai Turki, as contained in the
anguage which was brought from the wilds of
Tartary by the Turkomans in the ninth cen.
tury, or by the Turki tribes who accompanied
Chengiz Khan in the thirteenth. It has re-
ceived a very strong infusion of Arabic and
Persian words, not merely in the terms of
science and art, but in its ordinary tissue and
Familiar phrases. These words are all con-
nected by the regular grammar of the Turki;
terms, that perhaps two words in nine in the
ut so extensive is the adoption of foreign
Jaghatai dialect may be originally derived from
a Persian or Arabic root.

tribes, so little changed even to the present
day, will, however, be better illustrated by
The customs and peculiarities of, these
Memoirs themselves.
such analysis as we can make of the imperial

Memoirs of Zehir-ed-din Muhammed Baber. and though the Persian as the language of speaks of the Moghuls with a mingled sentiEmperor of Hindustan. self, in the Jaghatâi Türki; and translated Written by Him-taste, and the Arabic as that of science, havement of hatred and contempt." partly by the late Dr. Leyden, partly by still sufficient remains to keep alive native contributed to its almost extinction, there are W. Erskine, Esq. With Notes, &c. 4to. enthusiasm, and reward the toils of collection pp. 432. London, 1826, Longman, Rees and preservation. Orme, and Co.; Edinburgh, Cadell and Co. We do not under-rate the historical and national interest of this work, when we observe spread his sway over the fairest portions of that, notwithstanding the mass of curious and Asia, was immediately succeeded by a number Taimur Beg, who died in 1405, after having characteristic information which the Memoirs of his relatives and descendants, who seized unfold, the preliminary parts of the volume hold of such territories as they could, and which discuss the philological questions involved erected them into independent monarchies. in the Turki languages, and take a view of the Thus Tartary, Hindustan, Mesopotamia, Syria, Tartar tribes and geography of Turkistan, from Asia Minor, passed into other hands; and at an early period to the date of the Emperor no distant date even Persia was overrun by Baber's narrative, are not less worthy of attention and approbation. A book of greater value the Turkomans ; upon Asiatic literature, manners, and history mighty conqueror. It is not necessary for us Maweralnaher remained in the family of this so that only his native has not appeared for many years; and we feel here to trace who struggled for and reigned in that our limits are far too confined to permit us to do any thing like justice to its various topics, research, and intelligence. Ably begun selves, which " But we must come to the Memoirs them- Bokhara, Hissar, Kabul, Ferghana, &c. &c. Samarkand, Maweralnaher, Khorasan, Herat, by Dr. Leyden, it has been excellently brought parts, the first extending from Baber's ac- twelve, and in the year 1494, succeeded his may be divided into three &c.; suffice it to say, that Baber, at the age of to completion by his successor in the task, Mr. cession to the throne of Ferghana, to the time father in the last-mentioned narrow little kingErskine, than whom a more fit and competent when he was finally driven by Sheibani Khan dom, while different Turki and paternal unscholar to perform this acceptable labour was from his paternal kingdom, a period of about cles were kings, Ahmed, of Samarkand and not to be found among the British in India twelve years; the second reaching from his Bokhara; Mahmûd of Hissar, Termiz, Kunwho have devoted themselves to oriental expulsion from Ferghana to his last invasion dez, Badakshaw, and Kirutlan; Ulugh of Such aid as he needed, too, we may of Hindustan, a period of about twenty-two Kabûl and Ghazni; and of his moghul and notice, he has obtained from Mr. Mountstuart years; and the third containing his transac-maternal uncles, Mahinud Khan ruled to the Elphinstone, to whom the volume is dedicated:tions in Hindustan, a period of little more than west and north of Ferghana, the fertile proa guarantee, if guarantee were wanted, for its five. fidelity and importance; since an individual of three first years of the second, are evidently Sirr or Jaxartes), and maintained the chief The whole of the first part, and the vinces of Tashkend and Shahrokia (along the his distinguished literary and political character written chiefly from recollection; and the style power over the (Ulus) Moghuls of the desert would not sanction with his countenance what and manner in which they are composed, ap- as far as Mogulistan, where his younger browas unworthy of high public estimation. The Memoirs of Baber were written in the not only from the clearer connexion given to tribe. pear far to excel that of the rest of the work;ther governed a separate division of the same Jaghatai or Chaghatái Tûrki, which was his the various parts of the story, and the space sisters of these two princes, had been married native tongue, and is still preserved in his given to incidents in proportion to their im- to the three brothers, the Kings of Samarkand, "Three daughters of Yunis Khan, the paternal kingdom of Ferghana,+ in greater pu-portance, but from the superior unity and Hissar, and Ferghana; and the relations of rity than in any other country. cultivated before, and in his time; so that it other respects also, the most agreeable portion alluded to by Baber." It was much rapidity of the narrative. This is, perhaps, in affinity arising from these marriages are often had become one of the most perfect and re- of the Memoirs. During a great part of the fined languages of the East. They thus re-period to which they relate, he was unfortu. swayed by the most potent prince of the age, semble the well-known Memoirs of Taimur nate, and often a wanderer; but always lively, Hussain, another descendant of Tamerlane; The sceptre of Khorasan was at this period (Tamerlane), between whose death and the active, and bold; and the reader follows him in Shebaini, a descendant of Chengiz Khan, (from death of Baber, we may count the golden age his various adventures with that delight which whose race the name of Usbek Tartars has of Turki literature. mentions Persian poetry, &c. with admira-mated recital of the hazardous exploits of a tory of Turkistan, and his subjects a mass of The latter emperor often inevitably springs from the minute and ani. been derived), was khan of the Tartar territion; and the works in the Turki are also youthful warrior. repeatedly spoken of as of eminent talent:newed in the year 925 of the Hejira, (A. D. Such was the aspect and general division of the The narrative, when remany Turki princes were themselves poets; 1519) after an interval of twelve years, par- land when our historian, Zehir-ed-din MuTurki, Moghul, and probably Fennic tribes. which important and unimportant events findcended the throne; about two years before the takes too much of the tedium of a journal, in hammed, surnamed Baber, or the Tiger, assure the copy of one kept at the time. an equal space, and seems to be in a great mea-discovery of America by Columbus, and four same remark applies perhaps even more strongly the year in which Charles VIII. of France to the greater part of the concluding portion of invaded Naples:-his European contemporaries The years before Vasco de Gama reached Indiathe work." into Turki, Moghul, Tartar more correctly in Germany, Maximilian and Charles V.; The ancient Scythians, afterwards divided VIII., Louis XII., and Francis I. in France; were our Henrys VII. and VIII.; Charles south of that river, continued to be, in general, inhabited by persons speaking the Persian tongue, while the in- Tatar, Manchu, and other powerful tribes, and in Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, and habitants of most of the hills to the south retained their have had too much influence over the fate of Charles. original languages. The Jaghatai Turki was a dialect of the world, not to render an investigation of the language of that extensive division of the Tartaric nations, which, in order to distinguish them from the their origin extremely interesting; and in this Monguls, or Moghuls, have recently, though perhaps light the reader will peruse Mr. Erskine's Inerroneously, been more peculiarly denominated Tartars troduction with great satisfaction. or Tatars. The language really spoken by that great race is the Turki; and the language of Kashghar, of the clear and masterly treatise. After pointing the extreme boundary of the habitable world. Crimea, of Samarkand and Bokhara, of Constantinople, out the differences between Turki and Mong.

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"It is the dialect of the Turki tongue which prevails In the extensive tract of country that formed the do minions of Jaghatai or Chaghatai Khan, the son of Chen iz Khan, the celebrated conqueror, which extended from the Ulugh-Tagh mountains on the north to the Hindu-Kush mountains on the south, and from the Caspian Sea on the west to the deserts of Cobi, beyond Terfan, Kashghar, and Yârkend, on the east. It was, however, chiefly the language of the deserts and plains,

as the cities, especially along the Jaxaries, and to the

and the greater part of Turkey, of the principal wandering tribes of Persia, and, indeed, of one-half of the popu lation of that country, of the Turkomans of Asia Minor, as well as of those east of the Euxine, of the Uzbeks, the. Kirghis, the Kaizâks, the Bashkirs, and numerous other

It is a

hul, &c. Mr. E. says"Baber had a close connexion with both tribes of Tartary, is radically the same as that of the on the father's side in a direct line to the great races of Tartars. the expression, the most corrupted of all the dialects of self as being a Türk; while by the mother's Jaghatái Türks. The most mixed, and, if we may use Taimur Beg, whence he always speaks of him He traced up his descent the Turki, is that of the Constantinopolitan Turks, which, however, for some centuries, has been the most cultivated side he was sprung from Chengiz Khan, being and polish d. The others all still very closely approxi- the grandson of Yunis Khan, a celebrated

date and his age-
Thus does Baber begin, mentioning the

"I became King of Ferghana. The country On the east, it has Kashgar; on the west, of Ferghana is situated in the fifth climate, on the confines of Badakhshân; on the north, alSamarkand; on the south, the hill-country on as Almâligh, Almâtu, and Yângi, which is known in books of history by the name of though in former times there were cities such

tolerably defined in the maps of Major Rennell and Mr Elphinstone, and an excellent map by Mr. Waddington, mate, and the different tribes speaking them can easily prince of the Moghuls. All Baber's affections, in this volume, is the most complete we have ever seen Most of these places may (except Hissar) be found however, were with the Turks; and he often first exploits, of the countries north of the Oxus, the scene of Baber's

understand and converse with each other."

Now the powerful kingdom of Kokân,

quence

Otrar; yet, at the present date, in conse- buildings are raised. On Monday, the 4th of others again as infidels, or fearless in de of the incursions of the Uzbeks, they the month of Ramzan, of the year that has bauchery, or great talkers (who must often talk are desolate, and no population remains. been mentioned, Omer-Sheikh Mirza was pre- foolishly); and a number of remarks are made Ferghana is a country of small extent, but cipitated from the top of the steep, with his which shew that the emperor was neither a mean abounding in grain and fruits; and it is sur- pigeons, and pigeon-house, and took his flight observer of mankind, nor a bad judge of the rounded with hills on all sides except on the west, to the other world." characters of those about him. Hardly was he towards Samarkand and Khojend, where there "Omer-Sheikh Mirza was of low stature, seated upon the throne, when his uncle Alimed, are none; and on that side alone can it be had a short bushy beard, brownish hair, and Sultan of Samarkand, attacked Ferghana, but entered by foreign enemies. The river Sei- was very corpulent. He used to wear his retired unsuccessful, and died on his route homehun, which is generally known by the name tunic extremely tight; insomuch, that as he wards; while another uncle, Mahmûd (of Hissar, of the river of Khojend, comes from the north- was wont to contract his belly while he tied &c.), who had invaded the northern provinces, east, and, after passing through this country, the strings, when he let himself out again the also failed in his attempt, and retreated. A third flows towards the west. It then runs on the strings often burst. He was not curious in attack was made upon the young prince by the north of Khojend and south of Finâkat, which either his food or dress."" He read ele. Hakim of Kashgar and Khoten; but from this is now better known as Shahrokhia; and gantly: his general reading was the Khamsahs,+ he was also extricated by the unanimity, skill, thence, inclining to the north, flows down the Mesnevis, and books of history, and he and courage of his faithful Regs. Some of the towards Turkestan; and, meeting with no was in particular fond of reading the Shahna- traits of Ahmed's character, as drawn by his ́ other river in its course, is wholly swallowed meh. Though he had a turn for poetry, he nephew, are not a little illustrative of the manup in the sandy desert considerably below did not cultivate it." ners of that age and people. Turkestan, and disappears."

"He was strictly attached to the Hanifah sect, and was a true and orthodox believer. He unfailingly observed the five stated daily prayers, and did not neglect them even when engaged in drinking parties. He was attached to Khwajeh Abid-ulla, who was his religious instructor and guide. He was polite and ceremonious at all times, but particularly in his intercourse with the Khwâjeh; insomuch that they say, that, while in company with him, however long they sat, he never changed the position of his knees, by shifting the one over the other, except in one instance, when, con trary to his usual practice, he rested the one knee on the other. After the Mirza rose, the Khwajeh desired them to examine what there was particular in the place in which the Mirza had been seated, when they found a bone lying there.+

"He was singularly observant of decorum, insomuch that it is said, that even in private, before his own people and nearest relations, he never uncovered his feet. Whenever he took to drinking wine, he would drink without inter. mission for twenty or thirty days at a stretch, and then he would not taste wine for the next twenty or thirty days. In his social parties he would sometimes sit day and night, and drink profusely; on the days when he did not drink, he ate pungent substances.”

"He was a middling shot with the bow; he The royal writer then notes the divisions, had uncommon force in his fists, and never first, Andijan, the capital, fortified, well wa- hit a man whom he did not knock down. From tered, fruitful, and abounding in game. "Its his excessive ambition for conquest, he often pheasants (we are told) are so fat, that the exchanged peace for war, and friendship for report goes that four persons may dine on the hostility. In the earlier part of his life he broth of one of them, and not be able to finish was greatly addicted to drinking bûzeh and it:" second, Ush, with pleasant streams, talar.§ Latterly, once or twice in the week, whose banks are covered with "elegant" he indulged in a drinking party. He was a violets: third, Marghinân, rich in pomegra- pleasant companion, and in the course of connates and apricots, where "they have a way versation used often to cite, with great felicity, of taking out the stones of the latter, and of appropriate verses from the poets. In his putting in almonds in their place, after which latter days, he was much addicted to the use the fruit is dried," [a good idea of a pre- of Maajun, while under the influence of serve]. "The game and venison are here which, he was subject to a feverish irritability. also excellent. The white deer is found in its He was a humane man. He played a great vicinity. All the inhabitants are Sarts; the deal at backgammon, and sometimes at games race are great boxers, noisy and turbulent, so of chance with the dice." that they are famous all over Mâweralnaher We pass over the details of his ancestry, his for their blustering and fondness for boxing, numerous wives, and his children. Baber goes and most of the celebrated bullies of Samar- on to recount the good and bad qualities of his kand and Bokhara are from Marghinân: Amirs, or principal officers, some of which are fourth, Asfera, at the foot of the mountains, extremely characteristic one rode 500 miles in abounding in almond-trees. "Among the four days; another "excelled in singing at small hills to the south-east of Asfera, is a drinking parties, as was the fashion of the time, slab of stone called sang aineh (the stone- what was called Tûiûk, a sort of Moghul drinkmirror); its length is about ten gez. It is ing song;" a third was remarkable for playing in some places as high as a man, in others well at choughân++ and leap-frog; a fourth, not higher than his middle; every thing says Baber," I was told would be an useful is seen in it as in a glass:" fifth, the man, but during all the years that he was with ancient Khojend, where there are Turquoise me, I cannot tell what service he ever did :" and other mines, many serpents, and excellent [he was neither the first nor the last royal sporting among deer, mountain goats, the stag, servant of this kind!] "he had been in Sulthe fowl of the desert, and the hare: sixth, tan Abusaid's service, and pretended to be an Akshi, with a considerable town, fortified enchanter" [a conjuror! Others are decastle, and strong position; good hunting and scribed as being too much inclined to be jocose; reproach !" hawking; and superb melons :-and seventh, Kasan, a beautiful climate, and fertile gardens. “The tabulghû wood is found here among the mountains, and in no other country. The tabúlght, which has a red bark, is a wood of which they make walking-staves, whip-handles, and bird-cages. They also cut it into the forked arrows. It is an excellent wood, and is carried to a great distance, as a rarity in much request." The revenues of Ferghana may suffice, without oppressing the country, to maintain three or four thousand troops." The death of Baber's father is thus recorded: "At this very crisis a singular incident occurred. It has already been mentioned that the fort of Akhsi is situated on a steep precipice, on the very edge of which some of its

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One of his wives, "who drank wine," had acquired, it seems, such dominion over him, that he durst not venture to visit any other of his wives or ladies; at last, however, he put her to death, and delivered himself from his Another of his wires," adds our author, "The Musulman princes of Asia are often ridicu-was Khan-Zadeh Begum, who was sprung of These are taught the Khans of Termez. lously fond of training tame pigeons. When I went to Sato take circular flights, to tumble in the air, to attack each other when on the wing, and to stand on the defen- markand, at the age of five years, to visit Sultan sive. Abul-fazl tells us (Ayeen Akhery, vol. i. p. 251,) that Ahmed Mirza, he had newly married her, and his allows pig of grain, performed ifte cu circular flights she still kept her face covered with a veil, acin Akber's pigeon-houses each pigeon, before he received and seventy tumbles. In the same place may be found cording to the custom of the Turks. He dicurious account of the mode of training them."

"Several Persian poets wrote Khamsals, or poems,

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rected me, and I took off her veil."

on five different given subjects. The most celebrated is
Nezami."
tical poem of Moulavi Jilaleddin Muhammed.
# The most celebrated of these Mesnevis is the mys-gular habits and manners, and many strange

Sufis consider it as equal to the Koran."

The

"The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is the famous
romantic history of ancient Persia."
poem of the great Persian poet Ferdausi, and contains the
Buzeh is a sort of intoxicating liquor somewhat
resembling beer, made from Millet. Talar I do not know,
but understand it to be a preparation from the poppy.
There is, however, nothing about buzeh or talar in the
Persian, which only specifies sherab, wine or strong
driak."

"The Sarts, or Tajiks, of these countries are the
Any medical mixture is called a maajun; but in
Inhabitants of the towns and villages, and the cultivators common speech the term is chiefly applied to intoxicating
of the ground, who speak the Persian tongue, as opposed comfits, and especially those prepared with bang."
to the Turks. They appear to be the remains of the **These to Musulmans are unlawful."
mote ancient population, and probably received the
"The choughân is a game played by men on horse-
name of Tajik from the Turks, as being subjects of the back, with long crooked sticks. They divide into two
Arab, or Tazi government: the Persians and Turks parties, each party trying themselves to hole a ball and to
yang first known the Arabs by the name of Tazi, or prevent the other party doing it. It requires both strength

and skill",

Among his emirs, too, it is noted, was Jani Beg Duladai. "He was a man of sinstories are related of him. Among these it is said, that, when he held the government of Samarkand, an ambassador came from the Uzbeks, who was famous among them for his

"The Hanifah is one of the four orthodox Musulman sects." "It will be recollected that the Asiatics sit cross-legged on a carpet. The bone of a dead animal being impure, thought to defile a Musulman, who is obliged, after touching it, to purify himself.".

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"It is customary among the Türk! tribes for the bride to continue veiled, even in her own family, for some time after her marriage. When a few days have elapsed, some child from among her relations is desired to pluck the efl off and run away. This is believed to procure

the child so employed success in marriage,"

זיי

Worse crimes were hourly perpetrated, and the reign of this infamous person did not last above five or six months; and "as a judgment upon him, all his five sons were cut off in their youth."

For some years, the wars which Baber carries on prosperously are described: but we have now sufficiently introduced this striking publication to our readers, and must defer its further consideration.

Head-Pieces and Tail-Pieces. By a Travelling Artist. 12mo. London, 1826. C. Tilt. THAT men are but Alexandrine children, according to Mr. Hood's enviable epithet, is a truism established in nothing more satisfactorily than in that love of fictitious narrative, which like, we are sorry to say, most other deceits, lingers with them to the last. From

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strength. The Uzbeks call a very stout cham- | chant named Duncan Menzies, its most dis- | the warehouse somewhat in the form of a galpion Bukeh. Jâni Beg asked him, Why do tinguished inhabitant. He was a trader in lows; from this beam depended a thick rope, they call you Bukeh? If you are a Bukeh, extensive business, having the entire owner- which, to the eye of an inlander, must have come let us have a set-to.' The ambassador, ship of two coasting vessels, besides a large added to the sinister appearance of the ma do what he would, was unable to get off. The share in a three-masted West-Indiaman, that chine; but in the iron clicks at the end, and Hakim grappled with the Uzbek, who was was seen regularly once a year sweeping up the the blocks at the upper part, a denizen of the thrown. Jani Beg was a man of perfect river, laden with the produce of another zone, coast might recognise that sort of tackle by courage." and putting to shame with her white lofty which heavy goods are hoisted into the wareAhmed was succeeded in Samarkand by his sails, as she drew in towards the quay, the house. The affairs of the counting-house were brother Mahmûd, who soon became unpopular, humbler craft, whose uncouth-looking hulls managed, under the master's superintendence, in consequence of his tyranny and debauchery; and sooty canvass crowded the port. Mr. Men- by a youth whose name was Watt Lee, a dis. and his example being followed by his courtiers, zies, or Mingus, as it was pronounced, was not tant relation of the late Mrs. Menzies, (for the "the men of Hissar, and particularly the body only the richest merchant, but at the time we baillie was now a widower,) and who was perof troops that followed Khosrou Shah, were take up our tale had attained the highest civil mitted to look forward to a share in the conconstantly engaged in debauchery and drink- dignity in the place, viz. that of baillie or chief cern. The domestic economy was under the ing; and to such a length did matters go, that magistrate; he was also an elder of the kirk, sole direction of an only daughter, misnomered when one of Khosrou Shah's retainers had an office, as it is managed in Scotland, of no May, for her name should have been April. seized and carried off another man's wife by small ecclesiastical dignity; and withal held She was a fair-haired, blue-eyed, clear-com. force, on the husband's coming with a com- the military rank of captain in the Greenelm plexioned Scottish lassie, as gay as the lark plaint to Khosrou Shah, he received for answer militia. These honours, however, were not all singing in the morning sun, and as sweet and You have had her for a great many years; of the baillie's seeking, they rather devolved modest and graceful as the primrose of the it is certainly but fair that he should now have upon him as a necessary concomitant of his spring. She was the light of her father's eye her for a few days.' rising fortune, and he submitted to their inflic- and the pride of his heart; and so complete was tion accordingly. We do not mean to say that her dominion over his affection, that, in the he was not proud of all and each of them; but common phrase, she could have turned the old there were some points attending them, and man round her finger. Her power over the more particularly the time those different duties baillie was often a source of great comfort to deducted from what was formerly devoted to Watt Lee, who, although clever and steady in his peculiar affairs, which, to use his own the main, was apt to take camsteerie fits,' as expression, were fashious. Even at the proudest his master termed them. In fact, he was of his official moments, too, there was a feeling somewhat self-willed on all occasions; but, of awkwardness he could not evercome, which except in the said fits, contrived to gain his damped the satisfaction he might be expected end by artful manoeuvres rather than open to feel. It was, for instance, with something rebellion,--so much so indeed, as frequently to amounting almost to shame that he made his appear to give in with unwillingness into way through the crowd of urchins assembled at schemes which he had himself suggested. The the door to see the baillie issue forth in his firmness of the youth's character, at length, in regimentals when the militia were on duty; some measure, got the mastery over the mil and on such occasions it was observed that he kier soul of his master, and except on great frequently reached the rendezvous in a more occasions, when the wrath of the latter was profuse perspiration than either the weather or raised to a pitch which the clerk did not think the distance accounted for. Neither was he at prudent to tempt further. May was rather perfect ease, when, in the magisterial character, the mediator between two rival powers, than a he was marshalled to church on the Sabbath by pleader for mercy in favour of the weaker two halberdiers dressed in red coats, the council party. Her mediation very seldom failed of its (we are not sure of the spelling though) to the following at a respectful distance, and the pro- effect, for she was as powerful with Watt Lee progressive dignity of Mother Hubbard, the cession brought up by the town-crier. Even as with her father. Whether it was gratitude White Cat, &c., till we gradually arrive at when standing at the plate in his capacity of for her kind offices which had ripened into a the marbled and printed outsides that denote elder, there was something annoying in being warmer attachment, or the circulating library, through all the va- stuck up for the gaze of the public when every ried stages of rhyme without reason, fairy other Christian was allowed to pass quietly on, wonders, romantic horrors, sentiment and and in being constrained for half an hour toge. I know not; but Watt did love his cousin humour, from patronising Mr. Harris to ther, with the polite humility esteemed deco- (twenty times removed) with a vehemence propatronising Mr. Hookham-still the same rous in a servant of the poor, to bob his head portioned to the turbulent strength of his chafondness for narrative remains; the child of to every dull tinkle which the halfpence made racter. The baillie was not perfectly satisfied six, the boy of sixteen, the man of sixty, as they descended into the pewter basin. But with the evident partiality of the young people. delight in the record of toils and success, sor- the counting-house was his proper element, Watt, to be sure, was come of gentle kin, and rows and joys, which, if in themselves imagi- there he found himself at home; and with his was a shrewd, active fellow, and by this time nary, have all, even the wildest, had their short thick pen firmly compressed between his well nigh indispensable in the business; but prototypes in real life. One of our greatest lips, his squat figure in a well-worn coatie, or his whole income amounted to no more than pleasures, it is, to say the least of it, one of our short coat, of a snuff colour, and a ruler in his fifty pounds per annum, and even that, tomost innocent: if there be a touch of selfish left hand, which it was his custom to retain gether with his future prospects, depended on safety in our dwelling on dangers we do not even after leaving the desk, he felt himself a the baillie himself. The father, too, was proud share, we may plead on the other hand how man of more consequence, and actually com- of his daughter, and thought, perhaps with disinterested is our enjoyment of a hero and manded more respect, than when surrounded good reason, that she might aspire to a much heroine's success; and really, in our number- by the pomp and circumstance of official dig- higher match: she was the admiration of all one world, it is a great deal even to think of nity. There was at that time only one quay the young men of the town, who toasted her others rather than of ourselves. Perhaps there in Greenelm, which ran out from the side of health in huge bumpers of rum toddy, after the is no shape in which invention takes a more the wharf or breast a considerable distance fashion of Greenelm; and even the strangers, popular form than in short well-written tales, into the sea, and forming a curve towards the he observed, whom business already brought blending the gay and the grave, and where pa- end, confined the shipping in a pretty secure from far and near to this rising port, threw thos and mirth are companions; of such a sort and commodious basin. At the entrance of the sheep's eyes' at her as she tripped along. is the volume to which we now call our readers' quay, and only separated from it by the breadth More than one of his mercantile correspondattention, with an assurance that its perusal of the street, stood the baillie's house, a large ents too-good men and warm-who had exwill amply repay them for their time: but let three-storied tenement, about two-thirds of perienced his hospitality, remembered in their the following tale plead its own cause. which were devoted to business, and the re-letters the sweetness of the May-flower, as they The Way to Rise." About sixty years ago mainder to domestic purposes. It was dis- gallantly termed her, and inquired warmly after (for this history is silent as to the exact date), tinguished from the rest of the houses in the her health. No positive declaration, however, there dwelt in the town of Greenelm, situated street by its greater height, and by a huge beam had as yet been made by any of her admirers, on the west coast of Scotland, a certain mer-which projected from the highest window of and the baillie left the affair to chance or des

"I'll tell you a story

About Jacky my Nory,"

Accident, blind contact, or the strong
Necessity of loving,