30 JUNE 1917, Page 15

MILTON AND JEHANGIR.

(To Tat EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'

SIR,—In your issue of June 23rd you quote from Sir Thomas Roe's description of Jehangir's Court : " High in a gallery, with a canopy over him and a carpet before him, sat in great and barbarous state the Great Mogul." It would be interesting to know the year in which this was published in England, as it seems to have prompted Milton's well-known lines in Paradise Lost:— "High on a throne of royal state,. which far

Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of lnd, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence."

e-L am, Sir, &e., W. MALLESON. Royal Dorset Yacht Club, Weymouth.