The volume of writing in the West about the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths is not insignificant. There are copious scholarly works on the subject in Russian, French and English. We have the works of Alexander Toumansky, Baron Rosen, Mírzá Kazem-Beg, Count Gobineau, A.-L.-M. Nicolas, and Edward Granville Browne. We also have attacks and refutations, but these latter categories belong to more recent years, when the Bahá'í Faith has been making considerable headway in the Western world. There is another genre of writing which merits attention, if only for a negative reason. These writings do not enlighten; they create myths. Generally speaking, remarks by travellers and casual visitors to Írán fall within this category, but are by no means confined to such writers. A sizable book could be compiled of the remarks and observations which are myth-making. Here we must be content with only a few extracts. Some of these solemn pronunciations are highly amusing, as with the following which is taken from a book by Arthur Arnold:[FZ] [Footnote FZ: 1833-1902, a radical politician and writer. M.P. for Salford and editor of _Echo_.] 'The measure of injustice and oppression which these courts of the Koran inflict upon the Christians may seem mild, in comparison with the treatment by which they suppress nonconformity within the pale of their own community. We have seen an example in the sentence of "a hundred sticks", which the incautious expression of liberal views brought upon the friend of the Zil-i-Sultan [Ẓillu's-Sulṭán],[GA] who added to free speech the wickedness of wearing trousers of European cut. There is, however, in Ispahan a surviving heresy, the most notable in Persia, which, when proved against a man, is almost a death warrant.[GB] [Footnote GA: Prince Sulṭán Mas`úd Mírzá, the eldest son of Náṣiri'd-Dín [_Sh_]áh, Governor-General of Iṣfahán and the adjoining provinces.] [Footnote GB: At the time of Arnold's visit, Mírzá Asadu'lláh [_Kh_]án, a Bahá'í, was the Vizier of Iṣfahán.]