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CONTENTS

[ To Henry Irving, Esq. ]

[ Original Contents of the Twelfth Volume. ]

[ SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS TO THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT ]

[ AL-MALIK AL-ZAHIR RUKN AL-DIN BIBARS AL-BUNDUKDARI AND THE SIXTEEN CAPTAINS OF POLICE.[1] ]

[ The First Constable's History.[8] ]

[ The Second Constable's History. ]

[ The Third Constable's History. ]

[ The Fourth Constable's History. ]

[ The Fifth Constable's History. ]

[ The Sixth Constable's History. ]

[ The Seventh Constable's History. ]

[ The Eighth Constable's History. ]

[ The Thief's Tale. ]

[ The Ninth Constable's History. ]

[ The Tenth Constable's History. ]

[ The Eleventh Constable's History. ]

[ The Twelfth Constable's History. ]

[ The Thirteenth Constable's History. ]

[ The Fourteenth Constable's History. ]

[ A Merry Jest of a Clever Thief. ]

[ The Tale of the Old Sharper. ]

[ The Fifteenth Constable's History.[125] ]

[ The Sixteenth Constable's History. ]

[ TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI'.[131] ]

[ The Tale of the Damsel Tohfat al-Kulub and the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. ]

[ WOMEN'S WILES[258] ]

[ The Hundred and Ninety-seventh Night. ]

[ The Hundred and Ninety-eight Night. ]

[ The Hundred and Ninety-ninth Night. ]

[ The Two Hundredth Night. ]

[ NUR AL-DIN ALI OF DAMASCUS AND THE DAMSEL SITT AL-MILAH.[280] ]

[ TALE OF KING INS BIN KAYS AND HIS DAUGHTER WITH THE SON OF KING AL-'ABBAS.[342] ]

[ SHAHRAZAD AND SHAHRYAR.[443] ]

[ TALE OF THE TWO KINGS AND THE WAZIR'S DAUGHTERS.[447] ]

[ THE CONCUBINE AND THE CALIPH."[463] ]

[ THE CONCUBINE OF AL-MAAMUN[470] ]

[ VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES OF SOME OF THE TALES IN VOLUMES XI. AND XII. ]

[ THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER—Vol. XI. p. 1. ]

[ THE TEN WAZIRS; OR, THE HISTORY OF KING ÁZÁDBAKHT AND HIS SON, Vol. XI. p. 55. ]

[ STORY OF KING DADBIN AND HIS WAZIRS.—Vol. XI. p. 94. ]

[ STORY OF AYLAN SHAH AND ABÚ TAMMÁM—Vol. XI p. 112. ]

[ STORY OF KING SULAYMAN SHAH AND HIS NIECE.—Vol. XI. p. 131. ]

[ FIRUZ AND HIS WIFE.—Vol. XI. p. 185. ]

[ KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.—Vol. XI. p. 127. ]

[ THE ART OF ENLARGING PEARLS.—Vol. XI. p.197. ]

[ THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST.—Vol. XI. p. 203. ]

[ PERSIAN VERSION ]

[ SER GIOVANNI'S VERSION ]

[ STRAPAROLA'S VERSION[490] ]

[ THE KING WHO KENNED THE QUINTESSENCE OF THINGS.—Vol. XI. p. 212. ]

[ INDIAN VERSION ]

[ SIBERIAN VERSION ]

[ HUNGARIAN VERSION ]

[ TURKISH ANALOGUE. ]

[ THE PRINCE WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE PICTURE.—Vol. XI. p. 226. ]

[ THE FULLER, HIS WIFE, AND THE TROOPER.—Vol. XI. p. 231. ]

[ TALE OF THE SIMPLETON HUSBAND.—Vol. XI. p. 239. ]

[ TALE OF THE THREE MEN AND OUR LORD ISA.—Vol XI. p. 250. ]

[ THE MELANCHOLIST AND THE SHARPER. — Vol. XI. p. 264. ]

[ ITALIAN VERSION. ]

[ TALE OF THE DEVOUT WOMAN ACCUSED OF LEWDNESS.—Vol. XI. p. 270. ]

[ THE WEAVER WHO BECAME A LEACH BY ORDER OF HIS WIFE.—Vol. XI. p. 282. ]

[ STORY OF THE KING WHO LOST KINGDOM, WIFE AND WEALTH.—Vol. XI. p. 319. ]

[ KASHMIRI VERSION.[512] ]

[ PANJÁBÍ VERSION. ]

[ TIBETAN VERSION. ]

[ LEGEND OF ST. EUSTACHE. ]

[ OLD ENGLISH "GESTA" VERSION. ]

[ ROMANCE OF SIR ISUMBRAS. ]

[ AL-MALIK AL-ZAHIR AND THE SIXTEEN CAPTAINS OF POLICE.—Vol. XII. p. 3. ]

[ THE THIEF'S TALE.—Vol. XII. p. 42. ]

[ THE NINTH CONSTABLE'S STORY.—Vol. XII. p. 46. ]

[ THE FIFTEENTH CONSTABLE'S STORY.—Vol. XII. p. 59. ]

[ TALE OF THE DAMSEL TUHFAT AL-KULUB.—Vol. XII. p. 70. ]

[ WOMEN'S WILES.—Vol. XII. p. 99. ]

[ NUR AL-DIN AND THE DAMSEL SITT AL-MILAH.—Vol. XII. p. 151. ]

[ TALE OF KING INS BIN KAYS AND HIS DAUGHTER.—Vol. XII. p. 191. ]

[ ADDITIONAL NOTES. ]

[ FIRUZ AND HIS WIFE, p. 301. ]

[ THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST, p. 305. ]

[ THE FULLER, HIS WIFE AND THE TROOPER, p. 329. ]

[ ARABIAN NIGHTS, VOLUME 12 FOOTNOTES ]