• PERSIA PAST AND PRESENT

A BOOK OF TRAVEL

AND RESEARCH

WITH MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP

BY

A. V. WILLIAMS JACKSON

PROFESSOR OF INDO-IRANIAN LANGUAGES, AND SOMETIME
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AND LITERATURE IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

All rights reserved

MMBOLANCENERAL

J2

COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1906. Reprinted
December, 1906.

TO MY MOTHER

'More is thy due than more than all can pay.'

-SHAKSPERE.