text:  The important point of the comparative deference paid to women and the amount of liberty and privileges enjoyed by them in the social systems of Mohammedan and Christian countries respectively is taken up by the Khan in behalf of the former with as much warmth as in past years by his compatriot Mirza Abu-Taleb [19] and in much the same line of argument--to the effect that the dowery which the eastern husband is bound by law to pay over in money to his wife in the event of a separation is a far more effectual protection to the wife from the fickleness and caprice of her partner ("whose _interest_ it thus becomes setting affection wholly out of the question to remain on good terms with her ") than any remedy afforded by the laws of England; where a wife though bound by ties less easily dissolved than under the Mohammedan system of divorces may still be driven without misconduct on her part from her husband's house and left to seek redress by the slow process of litigation