É. Apor (ed.): Stein, Aurel: Old Routes of Western Iran. (Budapest Oriental Reprints, Ser. B 2.)

2 In his Will, he left his own substantial library to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences — the institution where, in the reading-room close to the house in which he grew up, he had spent the most joyful hours of his youth. The study of Iranistics set peculiar stringencies for his research work. His first dissertation — by encouragement from Ignác Goldziher — was actually written in Cambridge (England), where he had been given the opportunity to study with a Hungarian Scholarship. He gave to it the title Az ó-perzsa vallásos irodalomról (On the Old-Persian religious literature), and it appeared in Budapesti Szemle (Budapest Review, vol, 44:108(1885), pp. 365-383.) His last extensive work was that entitled, Old Routes of Western Iran, from 1940, in which he publishes his observations made while on expeditions to Western Iran during the period 1932-36. May this volume be a tribute to the life-work of Sir Marc Aurel Stein upon the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. Éva Apor October, 1993. Budapest