PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
HISTORY OF NASSAR, THE SON OF KHOJA HUMAYUN, THE MERCHANT OF BAGHDAD.
HISTORY OF FARRUKHRÚZ, THE FAVOURITE OF FORTUNE. [63] CHAPTER I.
THE KING AND HIS FOUR MINISTERS.
THE ROSE OF BAKAWALI. PROEM.
PERSIAN STORIES. THE THREE DECEITFUL WOMEN.
APPENDIX. Hatim TaI and the Benevolent Lady p. 46 .
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
A GROUP OF
EASTERN ROMANCES
AND STORIES
FROM THE PERSIAN, TAMIL, AND URDU.
WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND APPENDIX
By W. A. CLOUSTON,
AUTHOR OF “POPULAR TALES AND FICTIONS” AND THE “BOOK OF NOODLES”; EDITOR OF THE “BOOK OF SINDIBAD,” THE “BAKHTYAR NAMA,” ETC.
“Who is he, that is now wholly overcome with idleness or otherwise involved in a labyrinth of worldly cares and troubles and discontents, that will not be much lightened in his mind by reading some enticing story, true or feigned?”—Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.
PRIVATELY PRINTED.
MDCCCLXXXIX.
Edition—300 Copies.
TO
FORSTER FITZGERALD ARBUTHNOT, ESQ.,
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
My Dear Arbuthnot,
Since you have always been warmly interested in my own works as well as in Oriental Literature generally, allow me to Dedicate to you the present collection of Eastern Tales. This I do with the greater pleasure, knowing that no man is more able than yourself to appreciate their value for the comparative study of popular fictions, and also to recognise their entertaining qualities.
Believe me,
Yours ever faithfully,
W. A. CLOUSTON.
Glasgow, April, 1889.
