246 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK oh. 



The object of my introduction was not to waste your 

 time by call, but to talk on your book. I wonder if you 

 have read Persian literature. If you read Sadi Omar-i- 

 Khyam, and other Persian Philosophers, I think you 

 would find a vast field to your interest, as your inclina- 

 tion is very much like theirs. 



Urdu literature, unfortunately, is very limited, and it 

 would be a pity that the advantages of your book may 

 be limited to English readers, I have therefore thought 

 to translate it in Urdu, but as I am short of time, and 

 besides anything in the form of book cannot have a 

 wide circulation at once, therefore if it is translated and 

 published in the newspaper in chapters first and then 

 in the form of a book, a great number of people would 

 be benefited by it. I therefore wish to ask your per- 

 mission to translate and to send it to some best paper in 

 India. 



Hoping to be excused for the liberty I have taken. 



This is of a similar tenor, proposing transla- 

 tion into another dialect : 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., 

 D.C.L., LL.D., London. 



Honoured Sir — I had the good fortune through the 

 kindness of a friend to come across your esteemed little 

 volumes entitled Pleasures of Life, and have been advised 

 to render them into Gujrati. I therefore make myself 

 bold enough to trespass upon your valuable time and to 

 request the favour of your kindly according me your 

 kind permission to render your valuable works in Gujrati, 

 for which act of kindness and grace I shall feel myself 

 deeply obliged. — Yours faithfully. 



A Japanese version is suggested : 



Tokyo, May 10th, 1903. 



My dear Sir — Allow me to write you not acquainted. 



I have had the honour and liberty to introduce to 

 the Japanese society your great work, The Pleasures of 

 Life, which doubtless has caused no small effect on the 

 present intellectual and moral requisites of this country. 



I had intended to send to you some copies of my 

 humble translation to make it acquainted by its noble 

 author, whereas, owing to my not being familiar with 



