THE EMPEROR AKBAR, VOL. 1

A Contribution Towards the History of India in the 16th Century, Translate, and in Part RevisedThis lady, Countess Henriette von daneskiold-samsoee, was one of those women without fame who are amongst the potent factors of human history by reason of their power to guide. She was the object of her children s reverential af fection and it may be said of her with truth, that her ef fluence was tenderness. Years after she has gone to her rest, a. Stranger finds the perfume of her character clinging round the home of her early married life, in traditions of her gracious presence and benign thoughtfulness. It was she who fostered, by Sharing, her son s bias to books and She supported him too in his at times, self-willed divergence from his father s plans. She was an invalid during most of her life and there is ample suggestion in the volume from which most of the material for this sketch of her son s life is gathered (letters and Extracts) that the young prince, to gether with her happy gifts of mind and temper, inherited from her also that delicacy of constitution which alloyed his life. It was partly in consequence of this delicacy and partly a result of his father s predilection for a manly military train ing that the boy s education was desultory and insufficient. It was not, he says, till 1848 that he had a tutor who gave him any conception of what to learn meant. With this teacher, a gentleman named Knuth, he was in that year in his usual summer home of N oer and reading Greek and Latin with seeming profit when his studies were rudely interrupted by the outbreak of the rebellion in the Duchies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases,