. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . fatuated withart, and privately enrolled himself at the Ecole des BeauxArts as a student of painting. As examinations in theLaw School drew near, he devoted himself assiduously fora brief period to cramming law. Examinations success-fully tided over, he returned to his art. In this way hecontrived to devote three quarters of the year to art, andone quarter to law. So his four years of study in Parispassed by. He graduated from the Law Sch
. Nippur; or, Explorations and adventures on the Euphrates : the narrative of the University of Pennsylvania expedition to Babylonia in the years 1888-1890 . fatuated withart, and privately enrolled himself at the Ecole des BeauxArts as a student of painting. As examinations in theLaw School drew near, he devoted himself assiduously fora brief period to cramming law. Examinations success-fully tided over, he returned to his art. In this way hecontrived to devote three quarters of the year to art, andone quarter to law. So his four years of study in Parispassed by. He graduated from the Law School, andexhibited in the Ecole des Beaux Arts. His fatherwished him to go in for a doctorate; but, this provinguncongenial, he was permitted to return to Constan-tinople to begin his career as a politician, for which hehad almost as little taste as for military life. Before longhe published an article on the inconsistencies of judicialprocedure in the Turkish Empire, pointing out that inone set of courts Christians might act as judges, while inanother they could not even be accepted as article did not please AH Pasha, then Grand Vizier,. O. IIAMDV of the Imperial Ottoman Museum. OBTAIXIXG AX IRADE. 2/ \\\\o was an enemy of liis father; and Hamdy was forth-with appointed to a minor poHtical post at Baghdad,—apoHte method of banishment. The Go\-ernor-General of the province of Baghdad wasthe famous and energetic Midhat Pasha. He was attempt-ing to introduce all sorts of European reforms, runningsteamers on the Euphrates, digging canals, and wagingAvars to reduce the turbulent and savage Arab tribes tosubjection. With him Hamdy at once found favor, andhe was made director of the foreign affairs of the Midhats suite, dressed and mounted as an Arab, inthe corps of Arab irregulars created by him, he took partin the war with Hajji Tarfa and the Affech tribes in theNiffer marshes, which resulted from the attempt to levytaxes and to enforce milit
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