14 JANUARY 1928, Page 19

Received too late for insertion in our article on December

17th, on "Books that have Helped Well-known Men," the following post card from H.H. the Aga Khan, who is one of the great chiefs of Islam, will interest our readers : "The three books that most impressed me in youth and have had most influence on my life, were Hafiz's Poems in Persian ; Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ; and Tolstoy's two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, looked upon as really one general description of the first seventy-five years of the nineteenth century."