The Queen's Hindustani Diary.
By Moulvie Rafiüddin Ahmad.
MOULVIE RAFIÜDDIN AHMAD (BARRISTER-AT-LAW).
From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry.
[The following important article has been written by an eminent Indian scholar, and Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to peruse and revise that portion of it relating to her studies in Hindustani. Her Majesty was good enough to copy the two pages from her Diary expressly for this article.]
"When the Lord is pleased with the morality of a people, He gives them a sovereign wise and just."—Saadi.
HE above verse of the immortal poet Saadi, the Shakespeare of Persia, pregnant with a deep philosophical meaning, often quoted by the Mohammedan nations, can nowhere be more appropriately applied than in the case of the British people and their august and well-beloved Sovereign. Indeed, it is a matter of high pride and great gratification to the children of this country and the countless citizens of this ever-growing glorious Empire, that her ancient throne is occupied by a ruler as wise and beneficent as she is just and merciful.
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