LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[I lent large sums to the noble knights]

["Don't you do it"]

[His wife was a slender lady]

["Time of Abraham!" I exclaimed]

[Moses asked embarrassing questions]

[An encounter with Charles Lamb]

[I cut that picture from its frame]

[When we left Cordova]

[I had been a broker in Pompeii]

[Solomon and the Jinns]

["Go tell the queen"]

[She gave me her hand, and I shook it heartily]

[Asking all sorts of questions]

[And roughly told me]

[She turned her head]

["How like!"]

[I proceeded to dig a hole]

["Why are you not in the army?"]

[Nebuchadnezzar and the gardener]

[Petrarch and Laura]

[The crouching African fixed her eyes upon him]