influence
exerted by, that splendid, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to
Baha'i history and teachings, penned by that pure-hearted and immortal
promoter of the Faith, J. E. Esslemont, which has already been printed in
no less than thirty-seven languages, and is being translated into thirteen
additional languages, whose English version has already run into tens of
thousands, which has been reprinted no less than nine times in the United
States of America, whose Esperanto, Japanese and English versions have
been transcribed into Braille, and to which royalty has paid its tribute,
characterizing it as "a glorious book of love and goodness, strength and
beauty," commending it to all, and affirming that "no man could fail to be
better because of this Book."

Deserving special mention, moreover, is the establishment by the British
National Spiritual Assembly of a Publishing Trust, registered as "The
Baha'i Publishing Co." and acting as a publisher and wholesale distributor
of Baha'i literature throughout the British Isles; the compilation by
various Baha'i Assemblies throughout the East of no less than forty
volumes in manuscript of the authenticated and unpublished writings of the
Bab, of Baha'u'llah and of 'Abdu'l-Baha; the translation into English of
the Appendix to the Kitab-i-Aqdas, entitled "Questions and Answers," as
well as the publication in Arabic and Persian by the Egyptian and Indian
Baha'i National Spiritual Assemblies respectively of the Outline of Baha'i
Laws on Matters of Personal Status, and of a brief outline by the latter
Assembly of the laws relating to the burial of the dead; and the
translation of a pamphlet into Maori undertaken by a Maori Baha'i in New
Zealand. Reference should also be made to the collection and publication
by the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Tihran of a considerable
number of the addresses delivered by 'Abdu'l-Baha in the course of His
Western tours; to the preparation of a detailed history of the Faith in
Persian; to the printing of Baha'i certificates of marriage and divorce,
in both Persian and Arabic, by a number of National Spiritual Assemblies
in the East; to the issuance of birth and death certificates by the
Persian Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly; to the preparation of forms of
bequest available to believers wishing to make a legacy to the Faith; to
the compilation of a considerable number of the unpublished Tablets of
'Abdu'l-Baha by the American Baha'