BY JAMES SURTEES PHILLPOTTS, SCHOLAR OF NEW COLLEGE. OXFORD: T. and G. SHRIMPTON. M DCCC LIX. THE CAUSES OF THE SUCCESSES OF THE OTTOMAN TURKS. ———— By the fall of the Seljukian dynasty in Asia Minor, a vast number of Turks, scattered over the fertile tracts of Western Asia, were left without any organized government. The Emirs of the Seljouks in their different districts tried to set up separate kingdoms for themselves, but their power was successfully exercised only in making depredations upon