. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ich overlooks Babers tomb thereis a noble prospect, and the gardens of the city of Kabul lie in full blossombeneath it. In Babers own words : The verdure and flowers render Kabulin the spring a very heaven ! The Emperors Arabic name was Zahir-ud-Din Mohammed, but thename of Babar or Baber, by which he was known to his followers, was aMongol name (signifying the Tiger) given him in rough affection. Hewas succeeded on the throne by his son, Nairuddin Mohammed Humayun,who wa
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ich overlooks Babers tomb thereis a noble prospect, and the gardens of the city of Kabul lie in full blossombeneath it. In Babers own words : The verdure and flowers render Kabulin the spring a very heaven ! The Emperors Arabic name was Zahir-ud-Din Mohammed, but thename of Babar or Baber, by which he was known to his followers, was aMongol name (signifying the Tiger) given him in rough affection. Hewas succeeded on the throne by his son, Nairuddin Mohammed Humayun,who was afterwards the father of Akbar the Great. The contemporaries of Mohammed Baber were, in England, Henry VIIand Henry VIII; in France, Louis XII and Francis I; in Germany, theEmperors Maximilian and Charles V. The discovery of America, and of thepassage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, with the rise and progress ofthe Reformation, were the most interesting events in Europe during thereign of Baber. Authorities: Memoirs of Moliammed Baber, trans. Leyden and Erskine ; Holdens Mogul Emperors; Burnes Travels in .\Iakiin LriiiKK. No. 18 The Death of Martin Luther. Born loth November1483. Died 18th February 1546. IN the summer of 1545 Martin Luther was tortured again by his oldenemy the stone. On midsummers day he wrote to a friend that thistormentor would have killed him, had not God willed it would rather die, he wrote, than be at the mercy of such a described his condition in a letter of 17th January 1546 in these words :I am old, spent, worn and weary, with but one eye to see with, and verycold. On 28th January he went to his birthplace, Eisleben, and just beforeentering the town was seized with an alarming giddiness and faintness, ac-companied by constriction of the heart, and a difficulty of breathing. This,however, passed off, and he attributed the attack to the effects of a this time he wrote to his wife: Mercy and peace in the Lo
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