Excerpt from The History of India, Vol. 4: As Told by Its Own Historians, the Muhammadan Period

Of the Extracts from the Autobiography of Babar little need be' said. These Memoirs are the best memorials of the life and reign of the frank and jovial conqueror, they are ever fresh, and will long continue to be read with interest and pleasure. To have passed th'ese over on the ground of their previous publication would have left a blank in this work which no other writer could supply. Who but himself could have so fully and openly described his aims and feelings, or who could have exhibited that adaptability of character and that ready appreciation of the manners and prejudices of his new subjects? All the important passages relating to India have therefore been extracted from Leyden and Erskine's translation, and they will be the more acceptable since the original work has now become scarce and dear. A new French translation by M. Pavet de Courteille from Babar's own Turkl' version of the Memoirs made its appearance just in time to furnish materials, for a few notes and com parisons, but the differences between the translations from the Persian and Turki versions are not so great as might have been expected.

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