text:  We should never finish were we to transcribe the innumerable anecdotes respecting him which are scattered like loose pearls over the writings of the Andalusian poets and historians "--but as the "pearls" selected possess but little novelty in the illustration of the kingly virtues which they commemorate we prefer to quote once more the oft-repeated legacy to posterity in which this "Soliman of the West " as he was called by his contemporaries confessed that like his eastern prototype he had found all his grandeur "but vanity and vexation of spirit