text: " The manner in which the Khan has performed his self-imposed task is highly creditable to his industry and discrimination and strongly contrasts in the accuracy of the facts and plain sense of the narration with the wild extravagances in which Asiatic historiographers are apt to indulge; the Anglo-Saxon part of the history on which especial pains appears to have been bestowed is particularly complete and well written--unless (as indeed we are almost inclined to suspect) it be a translation _in toto_ from some popular historical treatise