PREFACE. IT is deemed necessary to some readers, and respectful to all, that the nature of the following work, and the plan on which it is conducted, should be briefly explained. The technical term Anas signifies, collectively, the various memorabilia compiled and published by the friends of illustrious scholars on the continent, as tributes to their memories. The English reader (for whom especially this selection and translation were designed) will fully comprehend the meaning of the above term, and the nature of the present compilation, when he re 065941 |