chapter is headed “_Comment Aristotle aprent à Alixandre les Sept

Arts._” In the tale of the Seven Wise Masters, Diocletian selects

that number of tutors for his son, each to instruct him in one of

the Seven Arts. In the romance of _Erec and Eneide_ we have a dress

on which the fairies had portrayed the Seven Arts (_Franc. Michel,

Recherches_, etc. II. 82); in the _Roman de Mahommet_ the young

impostor is master of all the seven. There is one mediæval poem

called the _Marriage of the Seven Arts_, and another called the

_Battle of the Seven Arts_. (See also Dante, _Convito_, Trat. II.

c. 14; _Not. et Ex._ V., 491 _seqq._)

NOTE 3.—The Chinghizide Princes were eminently liberal—or

indifferent—in religion; and even after they became Mahomedan,

which, however, the Eastern branch never did, they were rarely and

only by brief fits persecutors. Hence there was scarcely one of the

non-Mahomedan Khans of whose conversion to Christianity there were

not stories spread. The first rumours of Chinghiz in the West were

as of a Christian conqueror; tales may be found of the Christianity

of Chagatai, Hulaku, Abaka, Arghun, Baidu, Ghazan, Sartak, Kuyuk,

Mangu, Kublai, and one or two of the latter’s successors in China,

all probably false, with one or two doubtful exceptions.

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[1] See plates with ch. xvii. of Bk. IV. See also the Uighúr character

in the second _Païza_, Bk. II. ch. vii.

[Illustration: The Great Kaan delivering a Golden Tablet to the

Brothers. From a miniature of the 14th century.]