Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

by W. A. Clouston

• Garments, the, [248].
• Garrick and Dr. Johnson, [52].
• Gemara, authors of the, [186].
• Generosity, [24], [44], [48].
• Gerrans, [41], [126], [136].
• Gesta Romanorum, [187], [63], [227], [231], [279], [133].
• Gibb, E. J. W., [15], [110], [45], [283].
• Gisli the Outlaw, [25].
• Gladwin’s Persian Moonshee, [71].
• Goat, the dead, [71].
• God, a jealous God, [264].
• God, for the sake of, [9].
• Good or evil genius, [140], [141].
• ‘God, the merciful,’ etc., [24].
• Golden apparition, [136].
• Goldsmith, the covetous, [128], [160].
• Goliath’s brother, [213].
• Goose, Tales of a, [124].
• Goose-thief, [75].
• Gospels, two, for a groat, [320].
• Governor and the Khoja, [68];
  • and the poor poet, [104];
  • and the shopkeeper, [39].
• Gratitude for benefits, [262].
• Great Name, [214].
• Greek Popular Tales, [276].
• Grey, Zachary, [332].
• Grief and anger, times of, [260].
• Grissell, Patient, [331].
• Gulistán, or rose-garden, [9].

• Hafíz, the Persian poet, [125].
• Hagiolatry, [321], [327].
• Hamsa Vinsati, [124].
• Harírí, the Arabian poet, [70].
• Harrison on beards, [350].
• Hartland, E. Sidney, [181].
• Hátim Taï, [24].
• Hazár ú Yek Rúz, [33].
• Hebrew facetiæ, [117].
• Henryson, Robert, [309].
• Heptameron, [31].
• Herrick’s Hesperides, [23].
• Herodotus, Apology for, [316].
• Herrtage, S. J., [63].
• Hershon’s Talmudic Miscel., [191].
• Hesiod’s fables, [87].
• Hitopadesa, [140], [240].
• Horse-dealers and the king, [81].
• Hudibras, etc., [332], [345], [346].
• Hundred Mery Talys, [27], [150], [320].
• Hurwitz, Hyman, [117], [56], [218], [95].

• ’Idda: compulsory widowhood, [287].
• Ideal, not the real, [97].
• Idleness and industry, [41], [261].
• Ignorance, [262].
• Ill news, breaking, [95];
  • telling, [45].
• Images, the stolen, [128].
• Indian poetess, [7], [8], [9], [16].
• Inferiors and superiors, [260].
• Ingratitude, [47].
• Intolerance, religious, [188], [190].
• Investment, safe, [228].
• Irving, David, [136].
• Isfahání and the governor, [116].
• Ishmael’s wives, [203].
• Island, Desolate, [243], [279].
• Israel likened to a bride, [250].
• Italian Tales, [37], [39], [66], [231], [85], [279], [133].

• Jacob’s sorrow, [208].
• Jacobs, Joseph, on the Esopic Fables, [129], [135].
• Jámí, [40], [19], [63], [109].
• Jamíl and Buthayna, [294].
• ‘January and May,’ [29].
• Jehennan, [145].
• Jehoshua, Rabbi, [205].
• Jehudah, Rabbi, [186].
• Jests, antiquity of, [60].
• Jewels, the, [229];
  • luminous, [196].
• Jewish facetiæ, [117]
• Jochonan, Rabbi, [186];
  • and the poor woman, [227].
• Johnson and Garrick, [52].
• Johnson, Dr., on springtide, [14].
• Jones, Sir William, [5].
• Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, [205];
  • and his brethren, [206].
• Josephus on Solomon’s fables, [239].
• Jotham’s fable, [239].
• Julien, Stanislas, [77].

• Kádirí’s Tútí Náma, [41].
• Kah-gyur, [159].
• Kalíla wa Dimna, [39].
• Kalidása, [117].
• Káma Sutra, [126].
• Kámarupa, [133].
• Káshifí, [11].
• Kashmírí Folk-Tales, [111], [40].
• Kathá Manjarí, [28], [100], [175].
• Kathá Sarit Ságara, [157], [163], [179].
• Khalíf and poet, [101], [105].
• Khizar and the Water of Life, [177].
• Khoja Nasr-ed-Dín, [65], [70].
• King and his Four Ministers, [52];
  • and the horse-dealers, [81];
  • and the Seven Vazírs, [173];
  • and the story-teller, [99], [100];
  • who died of love, [161].
• Knowles, J. H., [111], [40].
• Kurán, [65].

• Ladies, witty Persian, [63].
• Laing, David, [136].
• La Fontaine, [278].
• Landsberger on Fables, [239].
• Langlès (not Lescallier), [33].
• La Rochefoucauld, [23].
• Lappländische Märchen, [181].
• Laughter, [59], [60].
• Laylá and Majnún, [283].
• Lazy servants, [76].
• Learned man and blockhead, [49];
  • youth, modesty of, [27].
• Learning the best treasure, [9];
  • and virtue, [47].
• Le Grand’s Fabliaux, [34], [155], [156].
• Legrand’s Popular Greek Tales, [276].
• Lescallier, [173]—see also [Langlès].
• Liars, [261].
• Liber de Donis, [132].
• Liberality to the poor, [24], [44], [48],
• Liberality and fortitude, [24].
• Life, Tree of, [174];
  • Water of, [174], [177].
• Lions, tail of the, [263].
• Liwá’í, Persian poet, [95].
• Lokman, sayings of, [310].
• Luminous Jewels, [196].
• Love, dying for, [161], [163].
• Lovers, Arabian, [283], [294].

• Madden, Sir F., [63].
• Magic Bowl, etc., [153], [157], [181].
• Maiden and Saádí, [28].
• Maimonides, [186].
• Majnún and Laylá, [273].
• Makamat of El-Harírí, [70].
• Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia, [107], [116].
• Man, a laughing animal, [59];
  • and his three friends, [247];
  • and the place, [262];
  • the mighty man, [261].
• Manna, daily, [266].
• Manuel, Don Juan, [30].
• Marcus Aurelius, [20].
• Mare kicked by a horse, [132].
• Marelle, Charles, [59].
• Marguerite, queen of Navarre, [31], [323].
• Marie de France, [90].
• Massinger’s plays, [331].
• Mazarin, Cardinal, [52].
• Meir’s (Rabbi) fables, [240].
• Mélanges de Litt. Orient., [83].
• Merchant and lady, [87];
  • and poor Bedouin, [95].
• Merchandise, [262].
• Mery Tales and Quicke Answeres, [10], [28], [75], [321].
• Mesíhí’s ode on spring, [15].
• Metempsychosis, [179], [301].
• Mihra-i Iskandar, [18].
• Milton’s Paradise Lost, [270].
• Mind, the infant, [261].
• Miser, [262].
• Misers, Muslim, [71], [72].
• Mishlé Sandabar, [173].
• Misfortunes of friends, [23].
• Mishna, authors of the, [186].
• Mole on the face, [291].
• Money, in praise of, [42];
  • sound of two coins, [262].
• Monsters, unheard of, [224].
• Moon, a type of female beauty, [117].
• Moses and Pharaoh, [208];
  • height of Moses, [225];
  • Moses and the Poor Woodcutter, [270].
• Muezzin with harsh voice, [33].
• Muhammedan legends, [62], [68], [71], [75], [76], [77], [79], [268], [270].
• Mukhlis of Isfahán, [135].
• Music, discovery of, [163];
  • effects of, [7].
• Musician, bad, [7].
• Muslim confession of Faith, [24].

• Nakhshabí, [46], [124], [96].
• Name, the Great, [214].
• Nasr-ed-Dín, Khoja, [65].
• Natésa Sastrí, [73].
• Nathan of Babylon, [260].
• ‘Neck-verse,’ [331].
• Neighbour, objectionable, [37].
• ‘Night and Day,’ [61].
• Nightingale and Ant, [41];
  • and Rose, [42].
• Nimrod and Abraham, [253].
• Noah, [194], [196], [225], [270].
• Noble’s Orientalist, [141].
• ‘No rule without exception,’ [119].
• Numerals, Arabic, [240].
• Núshírván the Just, [21], [37].
• Nye, Philip, [346].

• Og, king of Bashan, [225], [226].
• Old man and young wife, [29].
• Old man’s prayer, [109];
  • reason for not marrying, [31].
• Old woman in mosque, [109].
• Omens, unlucky, [107], [108].
• Opportunity, [263].
• Oriental story-books, general plan of, [123].
• Orientalist, or Letters of a Rabbi, [141].
• Origin, all things return to their, [131].
• Ouseley, Sir Gore, [6], [22].

• Painter and critics, [78].
• Panchatantra, [20], [44], [140], [146], [147], [159], [240].
• Panjábí Legends, [179].
• Paradise, persons translated to, [71].
• Parents, reverence for, [236].
• Parrot and maina, [178];
  • oilman’s parrot, [114];
  • Moghul’s parrot, [116].
• Parrot-Book, [124];
  • frame-story of, [125], [178].
• Parrot, Seventy Tales of a, [124].
• Parrots in Hindú fictions, [179].
• Passion-service, [323], [326].
• Pasquil’s Jests, [30], [330].
• Patient Grissell, [331].
• ‘Paveant illi,’ etc., [319].
• Payne’s Arabian Nights, [274].
• Peasant in Paradise, [327].
• Peasants, Foolish, [111].
• Persian and his cat, [80];
  • and the governor, [116];
  • courtier and old friend, [79];
  • ladies, witty, [63];
  • Moonshee, [71];
  • poet and the impostor, [106];
  • Tales of a Thousand and one Days, [33], [135].
• Petis de la Croix, [33].
• Petronius Arbiter, [134].
• Phædrus, [300].
• Pharaoh and Moses, [208].
• Pharaoh’s daughters, [209].
• Pirke Aboth, [260].
• Plants, to keep alive, [78].
• Planudes’ Life of Esop, [38], [301].
• Poets in praise of springtide, [14].
• Poet, rich man and, [107].
• Poet’s meaning, [104].
• Poetry, ‘stealing,’ [106].
• Poets, royal gifts to, [101], [104], [105].
• Poverty, [263].
• Prayers, odd, [71], [109].
• Preachers, Muslim, [34], [66], [70], [71].
• Precept and Practice, [47], [263].
• Prefaces to books, [11].
• Priest confessing poor man, [325].
• Pride, [261].
• Princess of Rúm and her son, [166].
• Procrustes, bed of, [65].
• Prodigality, [24].
• Psalm-singing at gallows, [331].