Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other PapersClouston, W. A. (William Alexander)
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Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
Clouston, W. A. (William Alexander)
Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism
Eastern story-books, general plan of, 123.
Eberhard's ed. of Planudes' Life of Esop, 301.
Education, advantages of, 27.
Egg-stealer and Solomon, 218.
Eliezer in Sodom, 202.
Eliot, George, 45.
Ellis' Metrical Romances, 100.
Emperor's dream, 134.
Esop: unlucky omens, 108;
wise saying of, 264;
apocryphal Life, by Planudes, 301;
Jacobs on the Esopic Fable, 300;
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, 305.
Etienne, Henri, 316.
Eulenspiegel, Tyl, 306.
Expectation, 7.
Fabliaux, 96, 100, 327, 328.
Fables, origin of, 239, 300.
Facetiae, Jewish, 117.
Faggot-maker, 152.
Fairholt, F. W., 355.
Fairies' gifts, 153, 157, 181.
Fate, decrees of, 99.
Faults, 7, 44, 262.
Feraud, Berenger, 278.
Firdausi, 50, 284.
Fitnet Khanim, 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, 268.
Forty Vezirs, History of, 65, 110, 132.
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, 115.
Fuller's Church History, 322.
Furnivall, F. J., 357.
Garments, the, 248.
Garrick and Dr. Johnson, 52.
Gemara, authors of the, 186.
Generosity, 24, 44, 48.
Gerrans, 124, 126, 136.
Gesta Romanorum, 187, 196, 227, 231, 279, 306.
Gibb, E. J. W., 15, 110, 132, 283.
Gisli the Outlaw, 65.
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., 53.
Golden apparition, 136.
Goldsmith, the covetous, 128, 160.
Goliath's brother, 213.
Goose, Tales of a, 124.
Goose-thief, 218.
Gospels, two, for a groat, 320.
Governor and the Khoja, 68;
and the poor poet, 104;
and the shopkeeper, 116.
Gratitude for benefits, 262.
Great Name, 214.
Greek Popular Tales, 276.
Grey, Zachary, 332.
Grief and anger, times of, 260.
Grissell, Patient, 331.
Gulistan, or rose-garden, 9.
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