Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám [antikvár]

iMEReeR-T COL.E. 15(00. F the three great philosopher-poets of the world—the author of the Book of Job, the Roman poet Lucretius, and the Persian poet Omar Khayyam—none has escaped the appellation of sceptic. Whether the name truly applies to the second, even the unlearned may now judge, since Mr. W. H. Mallock has given us, in his " Lucretius on Life and Death," n translation of the Roman into the smooth and honeyed dignity of the Omar-FitzGerald metre. Assuredly