As these Lectures would never have been written or delivered but for your hearty encourage ment, I hope you will now allow me to dedicate them to you, not only as a token of my sincere admiration of your great achievements as an Oriental scholar, but also as a memorial of our friendship, now more than thirty years old, a friendship which has grown from year to year, has weathered many a storm, and will last, I trust, for What to both of us may remain of our short passage from shore to shore.