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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX I, PALMER'S WORK AS AN ORIENTAL SCHOLAR. By G. F. Nicholl, M.A. Lord Almoner's Professor and Reader of Arabic in the University of Oxford; Oriental Lecturer of Balliol College, Oxford; Professor of Sanskrit and Persian in King's College, London. PALMER'S WORK AS AN ORIENTAL SCHOLAR. Professor Palmer commenced his Oriental studies with the Saiyid 'Abdu'llah (or, as he called himself, Syed Abdoollah). For two or three years he read vigorously?I may say voraciously?Urdu, Persian, and some Arabic with Syed alone.' I have searched among the mass of papers Syed entrusted to me on his departure from England for scraps of Palmer's early compositions, and have found but one scrap?a sketch of the story of Llewelyn and his dog in charming Persian?apparently in Palmer's handwriting (or rather in one of Palmer's handwritings). And yet.as Syed told me, Palmer was constantly writing prose and verse exercises for him ?an employment, we all know, he delighted in. No exercises, however, were left in Syed's hands, it is clear. Now the secret of Palmer's success was that, whatever he read and digested, he could reproduce, redistribute, and reconstruct; and ' Palmer, when asked by the Shah from whom he had learnt his Persian and Arabic, replied? I learnt my Persian from Syed Abdoollah, and my Arabic from Arabs here and in Arabia. (See his account of the ShaKs Visit further on.) all his friends know well that he did reproduce, redistribute, and reconstruct in the most marvellous manner. At the very outset we find him sending original Arabic couplets to Professor Theodore Preston and turning' Lalla Rookh' into what he called his favourite language. For purposes of comparison these compositions, if they could be found, would be invaluable; though I doubt not that, in re...