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In " Sonnenschein's Reference Series" we have A Dictionary of

Oriental Quotations (Arabic and Persian), by Claud Field, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 7s. 6d.)—The quotations are trans- literated—the Arabic on Professor Palmer's system, the Persian on -that of Mr. Tolbert—while the work of a number of translators, living and dead, has been utilised with due acknowledgment.