English studies . naccustomed energy ; she writes, inPersian, to the wife of the Governor a letter, narratingtheir misfortunes and setting forth the ancient claimsof her husbands family upon the British Govern-ment. She obtains for him a pension of five hundredrupees. All that is some while ago. At presentNyalchand is a wealthy merchant, greatly respectedby all who know him ; his master hardly recogniseshim when he meets him in the street. It is saidthat the Mirs wife has grown quite grey, but neitherpremature age, nor trouble, nor anxiety, can diminishher devotion for her husband. She lives w
English studies . naccustomed energy ; she writes, inPersian, to the wife of the Governor a letter, narratingtheir misfortunes and setting forth the ancient claimsof her husbands family upon the British Govern-ment. She obtains for him a pension of five hundredrupees. All that is some while ago. At presentNyalchand is a wealthy merchant, greatly respectedby all who know him ; his master hardly recogniseshim when he meets him in the street. It is saidthat the Mirs wife has grown quite grey, but neitherpremature age, nor trouble, nor anxiety, can diminishher devotion for her husband. She lives with himand for him; she is his, the only servant of hispoverty. And she stilljfinds means to be charitable :every Friday she gives her utmost in alms to the TWO INDIAN BOOKS. 299 poor. Sometimes Nyalchand is half uneasy whenhe thinks of the difference between the present andthe past But, you see, a poor man must make hisway. . Such is the history of Mir Bakhtavar Khan andof the merchant Nyalchand of <A 3[dagB in T^aris, The Journal des Dehats gave its readers, notlong ago, the benefit of the impressions of HisIranian Majesty, Nasser-Eddin, the guest of theFrench RepubHc during the Exhibition of are the impressions of another Iranian, bornin Bombay, yet of an older Persian stock and apurer race than the King of Kings, who, after all,is only a Turk, if you come to that. A TurkishKadjar, while our special client is a Mage, yes areal Mage, an authentic Wise Man of the East—noconnection with the Sar Peladan or even M. Richepin,—but a true-born descendant of those priests ofZoroaster, who, after the Arab conquest, set out forIndia and sought on her hospitable shores, aninviolable asylum for their sacred fires. JivanjeeJamshidjee Modi does not bind his brows with thediamond-clustered koula of the Shah-in-Shah ; hewears the white mitre of the Mobed ; and fromunder this different headdress he looks at a different 302 ENGLISH STUDIES. Paris. The king, a man o
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