Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
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- FLOWERS FROM A PERSIAN GARDEN, AND OTHER PAPERS.
- LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271, STRAND. MDCCCXC.
- E. SIDNEY HARTLAND, Esq.,
- CONTENTS.
- FLOWERS FROM A PERSIAN GARDEN.
- I
- II
- III
- ORIENTAL WIT AND HUMOUR.
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- TALES OF A PARROT.
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- RABBINICAL LEGENDS, TALES, FABLES, AND APHORISMS.
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- AN ARABIAN TALE OF LOVE.
- APOCRYPHAL LIFE OF ESOP.
- IGNORANCE OF THE CLERGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. THE BEARDS OF OUR FATHERS. INDEX.
- FLOWERS FROM A PERSIAN GARDEN.
- I
- II
- III
- ORIENTAL WIT AND HUMOUR.
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- TALES OF A PARROT.
- I
- The Stolen Images.
- The Woman Carved out of Wood.
- Of the Man whose Mare was kicked by a Merchant’s Horse.
- II
- The Emperor’s Dream.
- The Golden Apparition.
- The Four Treasure-Seekers.
- III
- The Singing Ass.
- IV
- The Goldsmith who lost his Life through his Covetousness.
- The King who died of Love for a Merchant’s beautiful Daughter.
- The Discovery of Music.
- The Seven Requisites of a Perfect Woman.
- V
- Story of the Daughter of the Kaysar of Rome, and her trouble by reason of her Son.
- The King and his Seven Vazírs.
- VI
- The Tree of Life.
- ADDITIONAL NOTE.
- THE MAGIC BOWL, pp. 152-156; 157, 158.
- RABBINICAL LEGENDS, TALES, FABLES, AND APHORISMS.
- I
- II
- Adam and Eve.
- Cain and Abel.
- The Planting of the Vine.
- Luminous Jewels.
- Abraham’s Arrival in Egypt.
- The Infamous Citizens of Sodom.
- Abraham and Ishmael’s Wife.
- Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife.
- Joseph and his Brethren.
- Jacob’s Sorrow.
- Moses and Pharaoh.
- III
- Unheard-of Monsters.
- IV
- Rabbi Jochonan and the Poor Woman.
- A Safe Investment.
- The Jewels.
- The Capon-Carver.
- V
- A Dutiful Son.
- An Ingenious Will.
- The Fox and the Bear.
- The Fox in the Garden.
- The Desolate Island.
- The Man and his Three Friends.
- The Garments.
- Solomon's Choice
- Bride and Bridegroom.
- Abraham and the Idols.
- The Vanity of Ambition.
- The Seven Stages of Human Life.
- VI
- ADDITIONAL NOTES.
- ADAM AND THE OIL OF MERCY.
- MUSLIM LEGEND OF ADAM’S PUNISHMENT, PARDON, DEATH, AND BURIAL.
- MOSES AND THE POOR WOODCUTTER.
- PRECOCIOUS SAGACITY OF SOLOMON.
- SOLOMON AND THE SERPENT’S PREY.
- THE CAPON-CARVER, p. 231.
- THE FOX AND THE BEAR, p. 240.
- THE DESOLATE ISLAND, p. 243.
- OTHER RABBINICAL LEGENDS AND TALES.
- AN ARABIAN TALE OF LOVE.
- Majnún bewails the Death of Laylá.
- ADDITIONAL NOTES.
- ‘WAMIK AND ASRA,’ p. 289.
- ANOTHER FAMOUS ARABIAN LOVER.
- APOCRYPHAL LIFE OF ESOP, THE FABULIST.
- ADDITIONAL NOTE.
- DRINKING THE SEA DRY, p. 306.
- IGNORANCE OF THE CLERGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
- THE BEARDS OF OUR FATHERS.
- Footnotes
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