PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. 



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John Martin Honigberger was a physician in the Court 

 of Lahore when Maharajah Runjeet Singh, the Lion of the 

 Punjab, was ruh'ng the country. On the death of the 

 Maharajah, Honigberger stayed long in Lahore to thoroughly 

 understand the people and the Court, the intrigues and 

 the conspiracies which brought about the downfall of the 

 Khalsa Power. Honigberger was not only a man of science, 

 but he knew politics and could follow the trend of public 

 afifairs and forecast the future. He commanded a happy 

 narrative style of writing and related the stories of the 

 Court of Lahore with a felicity of diction and a charming 

 tete-d-tete fashion, which rivet the attention of the readers to 

 the subjects of narration. 



" THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST " IS divided into two 

 volumes. The first is full of historical sketches and per- 

 sonal remine scences, the second deals with medicines 

 and medicinal plants. The second volume is too techni- 

 cal for the general reader now, besides the great progress, 

 that the modern Medical Science has made during recent 

 years, Honigberger's theories have all become more or less 

 antiquated or exploded. We have therefore left out the 

 second volume and published the first. 



It is said that India has effected a complete " turn 

 round " during the last half of the nineteenth century, under 

 British guic^ance and having the impulse of English educa- 

 tion. Honigberger's historical sketches will distinctly show 

 that the Punjab of 1848 is no more, — so great have been the 

 changes effected. When we think that it is but sixty years 

 that the Punjab has come under the British domina- 

 tion and when we contemplate of the marvellous material 

 and moral changes effected, we cannot but be filled with 



