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MSS. of the Siraj are very rare. I have only seen one, which Major 

 Lees kindly placed into my hands. It belongs to the Fort William 

 College Library, bnt is a bad copy. The Siraj is rather voluminous, 

 as it contains the words of the Burhan with lengthy remarks attached 

 to each. 



The Ghir&gh i Hiddyat is a much smaller work. It has been 

 several times printed. A very handy edition of the Grhias, easily 

 obtainable in any part of India, contains the Chiragh in the margin. 



Khan Ami's Diwan is much esteemed ; Bh. often quotes his verses. 

 Of his other works which compilers ought to read, I may mention the 

 Tanbili ul glidfilin, a critical work on the poems of &ij^ Hazin of 

 Icfahan, who died at Benares during the last century. Hazin, though 

 a great poet and a man of learning, is not always exact in his 

 metaphors, and borroios from other poets more than native critics by 

 way of cu*i^ allow. Khan Arzu in his attack tries to shew that 

 Hazin is u*****^, Xjj^-^-L, and (3j^°- Many of his objections 

 '(oLijj*3) are, however, not tenable, and Tek Chanel, Mirza Qatii 

 and Warastah take frequently occasion to justify Hazin. One of 

 Khan Arzii's nephews also, Mir Muhsin 'All, wrote a critic on the 

 Tanbih. Again, a very fair rejoinder, entitled <S*&+* Jy», appeared in 

 1862 at Cawnpore (169 pp.), written by Maulawi Imam Bakhsh, 

 poetically styled ^U^o Qahbai. As most remarks refer to Persian style 

 and idiom, compilers and grammarians will do well to procure copies. 



Two rhetorical works written by Khan Arzii are entitled — 

 jjjj j a fej^ &*kz and yj>^**> jd (k+k* oaAj/o 

 were lithographed at Allahabad in 1830 and 1841. 



The following extract is taken from the Miftdh ut Taivdrifch* p. 

 338— 



^j*-^ j\ *&~tjX>0 ^jlk* &"j^J\y d)j-= ^s*ii*J )^>° Oj-b jt J ^*^° 

 £j.3 6.+X? O^ikLo J.'ljt j& X&ji ^fcU^lj ^I^A^aLo i£Xl^ jjj iji jtajd 



* Lucknow 1864, 406 pp 4to. The author of this book is JUj +\)j jj^^lJs 

 [Mr. Thomas William Bell (?)], a clever Persian writer and poet. Some 

 of his tarikhs are excellent. The tarikh on p. 371 does not refer to the Ma- 

 drasah, but to the former Fort William College at Calcutta. 



