Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ? n li n ii u u -u u U -u u u -p ii ii ii ii ii n i LJAJAJAJA ja^aSQSEJK^EEOa^ElSO^i. Edward Fitzgerald life and associations. Its substantial reality isevident beneath the thin disguise of the symboli-cal or classical names which he gives to the per-sonages of the colloquy; and the speeches whichhe puts into his own mouth are full of the humor-ous gravity, the whimsical and kindly philosophy,which remained his distinguishing characteristicstill the end. This book was first published in1851; a second and a third edition were printedsom
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . ? n li n ii u u -u u U -u u u -p ii ii ii ii ii n i LJAJAJAJA ja^aSQSEJK^EEOa^ElSO^i. Edward Fitzgerald life and associations. Its substantial reality isevident beneath the thin disguise of the symboli-cal or classical names which he gives to the per-sonages of the colloquy; and the speeches whichhe puts into his own mouth are full of the humor-ous gravity, the whimsical and kindly philosophy,which remained his distinguishing characteristicstill the end. This book was first published in1851; a second and a third edition were printedsome years later; all anonymous, and each of thelatter two differing from its predecessor by changesin the text which were not indicated on the title-pages. Euphranor furnishes a good many character-izations which would be useful for any writertreating upon Cambridge society in the thirddecade of this century. Kenelm Digby, the au-thor of the Broadstone of Honour, had leftCambridge before the time when Euphranor held
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