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 20 as a gift several lithographed editions of Persian commentaries on the Mathnawí, while Mr. ʿAbdu ʾl-Májid of Daryabad, Bara Banki, with whom I have been in frequent and profitable correspondence, was so obliging as to send to Cambridge for my private use his own copies of rare Persian and Arabic MSS. preserved in Indian libraries. And amongst my chief benefactors I must certainly reckon Ḥusayn Dánish Bey, a Persian resident in Constantinople, described by Professor Browne as "a notable man of letters both in Persian and Turkish", who, besides obtaining for me a copy of Ismáʿíl Anqiraví's Commentary, had the extraordinary kindness to present me with a carefully collated MS. of Fíhi má fíhi written by his own hand.

The second volume of this edition, comprising the English translation of Books I and II, is almost ready for the Press and should be published in about a year from now.

REYNOLD A, NICHOLSON.

, December 1924.