which enabled him to enjoy more of the comforts of life, and to make some additions to his library. The fruits of his thirty years study are the following excellent works:—a translation of the “Minor Atlas”, under the title of “Rays of Light,” which he translated from the Latin by the assistance of Shaikh Mohammed, a renegade Frenchman; “The View of the World,” which contains the geography of Asia; and a “Description of European Turkey.” These are the three best geographical productions of the Ottomans. They were succeeded by five historical works: two bearing the title “Fezliké;” the one in Arabic being an universal history from the creation of the world, till within three years of his death; the other, a similar history, in Turkish, from the year 1000 of the Hejirah (about which time he must have been born), also continued till three years before his death, being a period of sixty-five years; the “History of the Maritime Wars;” a “History of Constantinople;” and the well-known “Chronological Tables.” Then, his great Bibliographical and Encyclopædical Dictionary, which forms the groundwork of D’Herbelot’s “Bibliotheque Orientale.” Besides these, he wrote several smaller treatises, one of which, his last work, he entitled “True Scales for the Detection of Truth.” This contains some curious essays on smoking, dancing, singing, &c., and concludes with a short account of himself.[2] He died at Constantinople in the month of Zilhijeh, A.H. 1068, (A.D. 1657.) This work was the second which issued from the imperial printing-office, established at Constantinople in the year 1726, under the superintendence of Syed Effendi and Ibrahim Effendi; the latter a Hungarian, who had embraced the Mohammedan faith, and on whom the more immediate direction of the establishment seems to have devolved. The types, which were cast by him at Constantinople, are very neat, and the execution of the whole, considering that printing in Turkey was then only in its infancy, is highly creditable to the ingenuity of Ibrahim. Unfortunately, however, it abounds in typographical errors, which have frequently occasioned the translator considerable difficulty. In addition to a list of upwards of two hundred errata appended to the work, he has detected as many more, which were not corrected in a second impression which was subsequently printed. The volume is a small folio, consisting of 149 pages, exclusive of the table of contents, the list of errata, and the printers dedication, and is accompanied by five neatly executed plates, the first of which represents the two terrestrial hemispheres; the second, the Mediterranean and Black Seas; the third, the islands subject to the Ottoman empire; the fourth, the Adriatic; and the fifth, two mariners compasses, one having the names of the winds in Turkish, the other both in Turkish and Arabic.