1 AUGUST 1914, Page 23

The Press and Poetry of Modern Persia. By E. G.

Browne. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. net.)—This learned and useful work—the kind of book which justifies the existence of a University Press—is partly translated from an unpublished Persian treatise and partly original. Professor Browne is one of those rare scholars who keep in touch with practical affairs, and there is no higher authority on the literary activities of " Young Persia." In the first (translated) part we have a complete list of Persian newspapers, 371 iu number. In the second part Professor Browne gives many specimens of the political and patriotic poetry of modern Persia.