Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

by W. A. Clouston

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INDEX.

Transcriber's Note: Index items in [brackets] indicate a reference to a footnote and not a page number.

[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [Y] [Z]

• Abbas the Great, [107].
• Abraham: jealous of his wives, [197];
  • arrival in Egypt, [197];
  • his servant in Sodom, [202];
  • Ishmael’s wives, [203];
  • the ‘ram caught in a thicket,’ [205];
  • the idols, [251].
• Abstinence, advantages of, [20].
• Acrostic in the Bible, [93].
• Adam and Eve, [191], [267], [268].
• Addison’s Spectator, [359].
• Advice to a conceited man, [44];
  • gratuitous, [261].
• Aesop—see [Esop].
• Affenschwanz, etc., [59].
• Aino Folk-Tales, [312].
• Akhlák-i Jalaly, [23], [99].
• Aladdin’s Lamp, [49].
• Alakésa Kathá, [52].
• Alexander the Great, [253], [254].
• Alfonsus, Petrus, [99], [36], [227], [231], [90].
• Alfred the Great, [315].
• Ali, Mrs. Meer Hassan, [270].
• Ambition, vanity of, [254].
• Amír Khusrú, [18].
• Ancestry, pride of, [22].
• Androgynous nature of Adam, [191], [58].
• Ant and Nightingale, [41].
• Antar, the Arabian poet-hero, [46].
• Anthologia, [259].
• Anwarí, the Persian poet, [106].
• Aphorisms of Saádí, [7], [41], [44], [42];
  • of the Jewish Fathers, [260].
• Apparition, the golden, [136].
• Arab and his camel, [82].
• Arab Sháh, [87].
• Arabian lovers, [283], [294].
• Arabian Nights, [33], [123], [178], [196], [212].
• Archery feat, [20].
• Arienti, [66].
• Ashaab the covetous, [93].
• Ass, the singing, [149].
• Astrologer’s faithless wife, [36].
• Attár, Farídu ’d-Dín, [51].
• Athenæus, [103].
• Athenians and Jewish boys, [117], [118].
• Auvaiyár, Tamil poetess, [7], [8], [9], [16].
• Avarice, [44].
• Avianus, [15].
• Aymon, Four Sons of, [317].

• Babrius, [300].
• Babylonian tale, [71].
• Bacon on aphorisms, [259].
• Baghdádí, witty, [83].
• Baháristán, [19], [48], [63], [109].
• Bakhtyár Náma, [124], [172].
• Barbary Tales, [75].
• Barbazan’s Fabliaux, [155], [156].
• Baring-Gould, [142], [58], [61].
• Barlaam and Joasaph, [91], [92].
• Basset’s Tales of Barbary, [75].
• Basket made into a door, [318].
• Bayazíd and the old woman, [131].
• Beal, Samuel, [147].
• Beards: Asiatics’, [338];
  • Ballad of the Beard, [355];
  • Barnes in defence of the Beard, [356];
  • Britons’ and Normans’, [344];
  • Coverley (Sir Roger de), on his ancestors’, [359];
  • dedicated to deities, [339];
  • dyeing the beard, [349];
  • famous beards, [344], [346];
  • French kings’, [346];
  • Greeks’, [338];
  • Monks’, [343];
  • Pope Julius II, [341];
  • pledged for loans, [342];
  • pulling beard, [343];
  • reformers’, [344];
  • Roman youths’, [337];
  • Sully’s beard, [341];
  • shapes of, [350], [351], [352], [355];
  • taxes on, [345];
  • tokens of wisdom, [338], [158];
  • Turkish sultans’, [339];
  • vowing not to cut or shave, [342], [347];
  • witches’, [358];
  • women, bearded, [358].
• Beast-fables, origin of, [239], [299].
• Beaumont, bp. of Durham, [318].
• Beauty unadorned, [46].
• Beggar and Khoja, [68].
• Bendall, Cecil, [159].
• Beneficence, [24], [44], [48].
• Bérenger-Féraud, [278].
• Berkeley’s ‘ideal’ theory, [97].
• Beryn, Tale of, [212], [133].
• Bhartrihari, [258].
• Bible, [191], [193], [205], [207], [229], [231], [239], [240], [249], [251], [254], [257], [97], [270], [153], [331], [332].
• Bidpaï’s Fables, [39].
• Birth, pride of, [22].
• Bishop and ignorant priest, [316];
  • and the simple youth, [317].
• ‘Bi’smi’llahi,’ etc., [24].
• Bi-sexual nature of Adam, [191].
• Blémont, Emile, [274].
• Blind man’s wife, [62].
• Blockheads, list of, [80].
• Boccaccio’s Decameron, [31], [75], [231].
• Bœthius’ Consol. Phil., [45].
• Bonaventure des Periers, [31], [323], [325].
• Borde, Andrew, [356], [166].
• Boy in terror at sea, [22].
• Bride and Bridegroom, [250].
• Bromyard, John, [132].
• Broth, Hot, [69].
• Buddha, Rom. Hist, of, [147].
• Buddha’s Dhammapada, [97].
• Buddhaghosha’s Parables, [163], [97].
• Burns, the Scottish poet, [104], [105].
• Butler’s Hudibras, etc., [332], [345], [346].
• Burton, Sir R. F., [11], [274].
• Buthayna and Jamíl, [294].
• Buzurjmihr on silence, [38].

• Cabinet des Fées, [49].
• Cain and Abel, [194].
• Camel and cat, [82].
• Capon-carver, [231], [276].
• Cardonne’s Mél. de Littèrature Orientale, [83].
• Carlyle, Thos., [60], [109].
• Cat and its master, [80].
• Cauldron, the, [67].
• Caution with friends, [46], [263].
• Caxton’s Dictes, [38];
  • Esop’s Fables, [129], [135], [158].
• Caylus, Comte de, [49].
• Cento Novelle Antiche, [231].
• Chamberlain, B. H., [312].
• Chaste Wives, Value of, [127].
• Chaucer, [196], [279], [339].
• Chess, game of, [240].
• Chinese Humour: rich man and smiths, [77];
  • to keep plants alive, [78];
  • criticising a portrait, [78].
• Clergy, Benefit of, [329].
• Clouston’s Analogues of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, [279];
  • Book of Noodles, [26], [111];
  • Book of Sindibád, [280];
  • Eastern Romances, [52], [112], [279];
  • Popular Tales and Fictions, [49], [157], [178], [279].
• Coleridge, the poet, [229], [264].
• Comparetti, Prof., [85].
• Conceited man, [44].
• Conde Lucanor, [30], [91].
• Condolence, house of, [62].
• Conjugal quarrels, [262].
• Contes Orientaux, [49].
• Cooks, too many, [262].
• ‘Corpus meum,’ [320].
• Cotton’s Virgil Travestie, [332].
• Courtier and old friend, [79].
• Coverley, Sir Roger de, [359].
• Covetous man, [93];
  • goldsmith, [128], [160].
• Covetousness, [45].
• Crane’s Italian Tales, [37], [85], [279].
• Cup-bearer and Saádí, [28].
• Cypress, [284].

• Dabistán, [97], [35].
• Daulat Sháh, [294].
• David, legends of King, [213].
• Davidson, Thos., [127].
• Deaf men, [73], [75].
• Death, rest to the poor, [51].
• Decameron, [31], [75].
• Deluge, [80].
• Demon, Tales of a, [124], [162], [179].
• Dervish and magic candlestick, [141].
• Dervish who became king, [32].
• Dervishes, Three, [113].
• Desolate Island, [243], [279].
• Des Periers, Bonaventure, [31], [323], [325].
• Devotee and learned man, [40].
• Dictes, or the sayings of philosophers, [38].
• Disciplina Clericalis, [99], [100], [227], [231], [90].
• Domestics, lazy, [76].
• Don Quixote, [11], [99].
• Dreams of fair women, [133], [134].
• Drinking the sea dry, [312].
• Drunken governor, [68].
• Dublin ballad-singer, [71].
• Dutiful son, [236].

• Eastern story-books, general plan of, [123].
• Eberhard’s ed. of Planudes’ Life of Esop, [130].
• Education, advantages of, [27].
• Egg-stealer and Solomon, [75].
• Eliezer in Sodom, [202].
• Eliot, George, [17].
• Ellis’ Metrical Romances, [36].
• Emperor’s dream, [134].
• Esop: unlucky omens, [38];
  • wise saying of, [264];
  • apocryphal Life, by Planudes, [301];
  • Jacobs on the Esopic Fable, [129];
  • the figs, [302];
  • how Esop became eloquent, [303];
  • his choice of load, [303];
  • offered for sale, [304];
  • boiling peas, [304];
  • the missing pig’s foot, [305];
  • dish of tongues, [305];
  • the man who was no busy-body, [306];
  • drinking the sea dry, [306], [312];
  • the dog’s tail, [306];
  • as ambassador, [307];
  • his death, [307];
  • Henryson’s description of Esop, [309].
• Etienne de Bourbon, [132].
• Etienne, Henri, [316].
• Eulenspiegel, Tyl, [133].
• Expectation, [7].

• Fabliaux, [34], [37], [327], [328].
• Fables, origin of, [239], [300].
• Facetiæ, Jewish, [117].
• Faggot-maker, [152].
• Fairholt, F. W., [355].
• Fairies’ gifts, [153], [157], [181].
• Fate, decrees of, [99].
• Faults, [7], [44], [262].
• Féraud, Bérenger, [278].
• Firdausí, [50], [117].
• Fitnet Khánim, Turkish poetess, [17].
• Flood, [225].
• Flowers, hymn to the, [54].
• Folk-Lore of S. India, [73].
• Fool, greatest, [279].
• Fools, list of, [80].
• Foolish peasants, [111];
  • thieves, [151].
• Forbidden tree, [268].
• Forman, bp. of Moray, [319].
• Fortitude and liberality, [24].
• Fortune capricious, [45].
• Forty, the number, [112].
• Forty Vezírs, History of, [65], [110], [45].
• Fox and Bear, [240], [278];
  • Fox in the garden, [241].
• Friends: caution with, [46], [263];
  • man with three, [247];
  • misfortunes of, [23].
• Fryer’s Eng. Fairy Tales, [39].
• Fuller’s Church History, [152].
• Furnivall, F. J., [166].