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generosity was large, and so was his whole soul, 

 yet brave withal and manly." 



Few of us can follow the pilgrims to the 

 Garden of the New Year, but most of us in India 

 visit Agra. Every Englishman who does so 

 should lay a tribute at Sikandrah on the grave 

 of the great Peacemaker and Statesman, Akbar, 

 who had the gift which wins aU hearts, and 

 should not forget to scatter there a few sweet- 

 scented flowers in memory of Babar, from whom 

 his grandson inherited that precious talisman. 



Humayun's actual reign was short and troubled, 

 but he must be remembered here for three things : 

 he was the father of the great Akbar — the baby 

 son born to him and his sixteen-year old bride in 

 their flight across the Sind Desert ; his capital 

 during the few years of his reign in India was 

 the Purana Kila, the most beautiful fort of the 

 many ruined Delhis ; and the tomb, raised to his 

 memory by his childless first wife, was the first 

 great architectural monument of the Mughals, 

 the plan of which was adopted eighty years 

 after for the Taj. 



The mausoleum is about four miles to the 

 south of modern Delhi ; the road to it branching 

 off from the main highway runs past the fine 



