ABSTRACT
Admirers of A Year Amongst the Persians, and they are not few, for the book ranks high in the literature of travel, will remember the vigorous and enchanting paragraphs in which the author sets out his views on the teaching of languages, and describes his own experiences in mastering those for the knowledge of which he was famous throughout the world. Yes: the writer was E. G. Browne-Persian Browne, a man whose
memory is exceedingly dear to me, not only as a very great orientalist himself but as a benefactor of oriental studies, for whose example and whose beneficence I have very particular reason to be thankful.
