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.