INDEX.
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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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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].
Garments, the, 248.
Garrick and Dr. Johnson, 52.
Gemara, authors of the, 186.
Generosity, 24, 44, 48.
Gerrans, [41], 126, 136.
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.
’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.
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.
Jacob’s sorrow, 208.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quevedo’s Visions, 343.
Rabbi and the poor woman, 227; and the emperor Trajan, 265; and the cup of wine, 119.
Ralston’s Russian Folk-Tales, 141; Tibetan Tales, 159.
‘Ram caught in a thicket,’ 205.
Rasálú, Legend of Rájá, 178.
Rats that ate iron, [44].
Richardson, Octavia, [149].
Rich, Barnaby, 350.
Riches, 44, 50, 261.
Rieu, Charles, [41].
Robber and the Khoja, 69.
Rogers, the poet, 359.
Rose and Nightingale, 42.
Ross, David, 278.
Rúm, country of, [46].
Russian Folk-Tales, 141.
Saádí: sketch of his life, 3; character of his writings, 6; on a bad musician, 7; his ‘Gulistán,’ 9; prefaces to books, 11; preface to the ‘Gulistán,’ 12; the fair cup-bearer, 28; assured of lasting fame, 55; on money, 125.
Sacchetti, 231, [133].
Saint-worship, 321, 327.
Samradians, sect of the, 97.
Satan in form of a deer, 213.
Satiety and hunger, 45.
Sayce, A. H., [71].
Scarronides, [157].
Schoolmaster and wit, 79.
Scornfulness, 260.
Scott’s ‘Lay,’ 331.
Scribe’s excuse, 79.
Secrets, 48, 263.
Seneca on aphorisms, 259.
Senegambian Tales, 278.
Sermon, burlesque, 328.
Servant, wakeful, 112.
Servants, lazy, 76.
Seven stages of human life, 257.
Seven Vazírs, 173 see also Sindibád, Book of.
Seven Wise Masters, 133, 173, 178, [134].
Shakspeare, 53, 163, 257, 342, 347, 349, 350.
Sheba, Queen of, 218.
Shelley’s Queen Mab, [126].
Signing with ×, 333.
Silence, on keeping, 38, 39, 45, 263.
Simonides, [12].
Sindibád, Book of, 123, 159, 173, 176, 178, 306.
Singing Ass, 149.
Sinhásana Dwatrinsati, 124.
Shopkeeper and governor, 116.
Sindbán, 173.
‘Skip over three leaves,’ 322.
Slander, 44.
Slave, witty, 35.
Slippers, the unlucky, 83.
Smith, Horace, 53.
Smiths and rich man, 77.
Socrates, 300, 338.
Sodom, the citizens of, 198.
Solomon: advice to three men, 215; the Queen of Sheba, 218; the egg-stealer, [75]; his signet-ring, 220; his lost fables, 239; his precocious sagacity, 73; his choice of wisdom, 249; the serpent’s prey, 274.
Son, dutiful, 236.
Sorrow, times of, 260.
Spectator, Addison’s, 359.
Spenser, Edmund, [117].
Springtide, in praise of, 14.
Stingy merchant and poor Bedouin, 95.
Story-teller and the King, 100.
Stubbes on beards and barbers, 352.
Stupidity, 26.
Súfís, [21].
Suka Saptati, 124.
Sully and the courtiers, 341.
Summa Praedicantium, [132].
Superiors and inferiors, 260.
Swynnerton, Charles, [54].
Syntipas, 173.
Talkers, comprehensive, [17].
Talmud, authors of the, 185, 186; traducers of the, 187; teachings of the, 188.
Tantrákhyána, 159.
Taylor’s Wit and Mirth, 330; Superbiae Flagellum, 351.
Teaching and learning, 262.
Temple’s Panjábí Legends, 179.
Thálebí and the Khalíf, 105.
Thief, self-convicted, [75]; without opportunity, 263.
Thieves, Foolish, 151.
Thomson’s Seasons, 46.
Three Dervishes, 113.
Throne, Tales of a, 124.
Tibetan Tales, 159.
Tongue, the key of wisdom, 46.
Tongues, dish of, 305.
‘Tongues in Trees,’ 53.
Trajan and the Rabbi, 265.
Treasure, concealed, [44].
Treasure-seekers, the Four, 144.
Tree of Life, 174, 177.
Trouvères, 327.
Turkish Jester: in the pulpit, 66; the cauldron, 67; the beggar, 68; the drunken governor, 68; the robber, 69; the hot broth, 69.
Turkish poetess, 17.
Turkmans, weeping, 110.
Tútí Náma, 124; frame story, 125, 178.
Tyl Eulenspiegel, [133].
Ugly wife, 61, 62.
Uncle Remus, 279.
Unicorn, 225.
Unlucky omens, 107, 108.
Unlucky slippers, 83.
Van Butchell, 348.
Vasayadatta, 133.
Vase, use thy, 263.
Vatsyayana’s Káma Sutra, 126.
Vazírs, the Seven, 173.
Vetála Panchavinsati, 124, 162, 179.
Vicious hate the virtuous, 44.
Vine, planting of the, 196.
Virgil Travestie, 332.
Virtue cannot come out of vice, 50.
Visitors, troublesome, 40.
Von Hammer, 293.
Vrihat Kathá, 158.
Wakeful servant, 112.
Wamik and Azra, 293.
Want: moderation, 7.
Warton’s Hist. of Eng. Poetry, 163.
Water of Life, 174, 177.
Weil’s Bible, Korán, and Talmud, 273.
Weeping Turkmans, 110.
Wheel on man’s head, 146, 147.
Wicked rich man, 44.
Widowhood, compulsory, 287.
Wife, choosing a, 263.
Williams, Sir Monier, 259.
Will, Ingenious, 237.
Wisdom, who gains, 261.
Wise man in mean company, 49.
Witches’ beards, 358.
Witty Baghdádí, 83; Isfahání, 116; Jewish boys, 117, 118; Persian ladies, 63; slave, 35.
Woman: carved out of wood, 130; seven requisites of, 165.
Woman’s counsel, 64, 65; wiles, 87.
Women, bearded, 358.
Woodcutter and Moses, 270.
World of Wonders, [148].
Wright’s Latin Stories, 76.
Young’s Night Thoughts, 46.
Youth, modest and learned, 27.
Zemzem, 285.
Zotenberg, Hermann, [91].
Zozimus, the ballad-singer, [71].
Zulaykhá, Potiphar’s wife, [68].