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Macaulay says: The highest intel Persian language, which task, as he rearet- lu s, lll\L the tops of mountains, arc the lirst fully - expressed to me, he had o give Lo (atgl and to reflect the dawn, They are up bhecause of the weakness of his sieht. bright when the level below is still in dark . During myv visit te him al Fariingford,

soon the hight, which at first [ was much surpriscd to find in

Hluminated only the loftiest eminences. Ibravy translations of eminent Persian descends on the plain and penctrates to the authors, e himscll showed me, with much deepest valley.” dehght, the work of Abul Fazl, a book which

late Lord Tennyson, it is not he highly valued. His latest pocm,

known, was a great admirer of * Dream of Akbar,” which he did me the

Oriental literature. He, as a true poet. knew honour of reading aloud, cannot fail 1o show the wvalue of Eastern imagination. His the amount of the Eastern poetical fluid which