THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST.—Vol. XI. p. 203.
The diverting adventures related in the first part of this tale should be of peculiar interest to the student of Shakspeare as well as to those engaged in tracing the genealogy of popular fiction. Jonathan Scott has given—for reasons of his own—a meagre abstract of a similar tale which occurs in the "Bahár-i- Dánish" (vol. iii. App., p. 291), as follows: