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Persian literature as we now have it, we find no trace of such a story, but there is much resemblance of Rust'haveli's imagery to that of Khakani, a Persian poet who died in Tabriz, close to Georgia, in 11 86, and of Hafiz of Shiraz, who died in 1300.

To give the reader an idea of Rust'haveli's style, the first stanzas of the second canto, — a passage imitated by Ariosto, — are here transcribed :

" They saw a certain stranger knight ; he sat weeping on the bank of the stream, he held his black horses by the rein, he looked like a lion and a hero j his bridle, armour and saddle were thickly bedight with pearls ; the rose (of his cheek) was frozen in tears that welled up from his woestricken heart.

" His form was clad in a long coat, over which was thrown a panther's skin ; his head, too, was covered with a cap of panther's skin ; in his hand was held a whip thicker than a man's arm. They looked and liked to look at that wondrous sight.

" A slave went forth to speak to the knight of the woestricken heart, who, weeping with downcast head, seems not a spectacle for jesting; from a channel of jet (his eyelashes) rains a crystal shower. When (the slave) approached, he could by no means bring himself to speak a word (to Tariel).

"The slave was much perturbed ; he dared not address him ; a long time he gazed in wonder till his heart was strengthened ; then he said : " (The king) commands thee (to attend him)." He (the slave) came near, (and) greeted him gently ; he (Tariel) wept on and heard not, he knew not that the slave was there.

"He heard not a word of the slave, nor what he said ; he was wholly unconscious of the shouting of the soldiers, he was sobbing strongly, his heart burnt up with fires ; tears were mingled with blood, and flowed forth as from floodgates."

F. C. CONYBEARE.

EtHNO-PSYCHOLOGISCHE StUDIEN an SUDSEEVOLKERN AUF DEM

Bismarck-Archipel und DEN Salomo-Inseln. Von Dr. Richard Thurnwald. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fiir ange- wandte Psychologic und psychologische Sammelforschung. No. 6.) Mit 21 Tafeln. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Earth, 19 1 3. 8vo, pp. iv+ 163. 9 VI.

This volume contains some of the psychological results of Dr. Thurnwald's expedition to Melanesia during the years 1906-9. It is divided into five parts. The first is concerned with the usual