'This servant, in order to gain first-hand information and experience, entered into the ranks of various religions; that is, outwardly I became a Jew, Christian, Mohammedan, and Zoroastrian. I discovered that the devotees of these various religions do nothing else but hate and anathematize each other, that all these religions have become the instruments of tyranny and oppression in the hands of rulers and governors, and that they are the causes of the destruction of the world of humanity. 'Considering these evil results, every person is forced by necessity to enlist himself on the side of Your Excellency and accept with joy the prospect of a fundamental basis for a universal religion of God being laid through your efforts. 'I have seen the father of Your Excellency from afar. I have realized the self-sacrifice and noble courage of his son, and I am lost in admiration. 'For the principles and aims of Your Excellency I express the utmost respect and devotion, and if God, the Most High, confers long life, I will be able to serve you under all conditions. I pray and supplicate this from the depths of my heart.--Your servant, VAMBERY.' (Published in the _Egyptian Gazette_, Sept. 24, 1913, by Mrs. J. Stannard.) BAHAI BIBLIOGRAPHY BROWNE, Prof. E. G.--_A Traveller's Narrative_. Written to illustrate the Episode of the Bāb. Cambridge, 1901. _The New History_. Cambridge, 1893. _History of the Bábís_. Compiled by Hájji Mírzá Jání of Káshán between the years A.D. 1850 and 1852. Leyden, 1910. 'Babism,' article in _Encyclopaedia of Religions_. Two Papers on Bābīsm in _JRAS_. 1889. CHASE, THORNTON.--_In Galilee_. Chicago, 1908. DREYFUS, HIPPOLYTE.--_The Universal Religion; Bahaism_. 1909. GOBINEAU, M. LE COMTE DE.--_Religions et Philosophies dans l'Asie Centrale_. Paris. 2nd edition, Paris, 1866. HAMMOND, ERIC.--_The Splendour of God_. 1909. HOLLEY, HORACE.--_The Modern Social Religion_. 1913. HUART, CLEMENT.--_La Religion du Bab_. Paris, 1889. NICOLAS, A. L. M.--_Seyy'ed Ali Mohammed, dit Le Bab_. Paris, 1905. _Le Béyân Arabe_. Paris, 1905. PHELPS, MYRON H.--_Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi_. New York, 1914. RÖMER, HERMANN.--_Die Bābī-Behā'ī, Die jüngste muhammedanische Sekte._ Potsdam, 1912. RICE, W. A.--'Bahaism from the Christian Standpoint,' _East and West_, January 1913. SKRINE, F. H.--_Bahaism, the Religion of Brotherhood and its place in the Evolution of Creeds._ 1912. WILSON, S. G.--'The Claims of Bahaism,' _East and West_, July 1914. Works of the BĀB, BAHA-'ULLAH, ABDUL BAHA, and ABU'L FAZL: _L'Épître au Fils du Loup._ Baha-'ullah. Traduction française par H. Dreyfus. Paris, 1913. _Le Beyan arabe._ Nicolas. Paris, 1905. _The Hidden Words._ Chicago, 1905. _The Seven Valleys._ Chicago. _Livre de la Certitude._ Dreyfus. Paris, 1904. _The Book of Ighan._ Chicago. Works of ABDUL BAHA: _Some Answered Questions._ 1908. _Tablets._ Vol. i. Chicago, 1912.