Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volume 18 -

Art. VI.—Discovery of Caves on the Murghab
De Laessoë, M. G. Talbot, William Simpson
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15 March 2011, pp. 92-102
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In February last, Captain F. de Laessoë, who is attached as one of the Political Officers with the Afghan Boundary Commission, discovered an important group of caves at Penjdeh, and sent me a plan of them, which is here given ; and with it the following letter, which contains an account of the discovery.

Art. XIII.—Observations on the various Texts and Translations of the so-called “Song of Meysūn”; an Inquiry into Meysūn's claim to its Authorship; and an Appendix on Arabic Transliteration and Pronunciation 1
J. W. Redhouse
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15 March 2011, pp. 268-322
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Dr. Carlyle's book, “Specimens of Arabic Poetry,” may be somewhat scarce, and Captain, now Sir R., Burton's “Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah” gives only an English version, without the Arabic text, of the little piece of poetry attributed to Meysūn, the mother of the second Damascus Caliph of the house of ‘Umeyya, Yezīd son of Mu'āwiya son of’ Ebū-Sufyān Ṣakhr son of Ḥarb, etc.

Art. VII.—The Alchemist. A Persian Play
Guy Le Strange
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15 March 2011, pp. 103-126
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The Alchemist is one of a series of plays lithographed at Tehran, in 1874, by Mirza Ja'afar, a native of Karâjeh-Dâgh. They are his translation from an Azerbaijani-Turkish original, written by Mirza Fath-‘Ali, of Derbend, and first published at Tiflis in 1861. In conjunction with Mr. Haggard, some few years ago, I had occasion to edit, with a translation, the first in order of these plays. Recently, an excellent edition in Persian of three more of Mirza Ja'afar's comedies, and among them “The Alchemist,” has appeared under the auspices of two well-known French scholars.

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