THIS is an autobiographical piece giving an interesting account of several occurrences during the downfall of the Empire. It bears very much the same character as the Bayán-i Wákí' of 'Abdu-l Karím. The author is careless about dates, but they can easily be supplied by the light which other historians, European and Asiatic, shed upon the transactions he records. There seems reason to suppose that the author's name was Tahmásp, to which he added the literary name of Miskín. The text, however, is not very plain on this subject. The title of the work may perhaps be derived from the name assumed by Nádir Sháh on his entering the service of Sháh Tahmásp.
SIZE—Large 8VO., 314 pages of 17 lines each.