ot Asia, we find few princes entitled to rank higher than Babur in genius and accomplishments. * * * In activity of mind, in the gay equanimity and unbroken spirit with which he bore the extremes of good and bad fortune, in the possession of the manly and social virtues, in his love of letters and his success in the cultivation of'them, we shall probably find no other Asiatic prince who can justly be placed beside him."