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Clouston, William Alexander, 1843-1896

"Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers"


Aphorisms of Saadi, 7, 41, 44, 125;
of the Jewish Fathers, 260.
Apparition, the golden, 136.
Arab and his camel, 82.
Arab Shah, 87.
Arabian lovers, 283, 294.
Arabian Nights, 93, 123, 178, 196, 212.
Archery feat, 20.
Arienti, 203.
Ashaab the covetous, 93.
Ass, the singing, 149.
Astrologer's faithless wife, 36.
Attar, Faridu 'd-Din, 51.
Athenaeus, 262.
Athenians and Jewish boys, 117, 118.
Auvaiyar, Tamil poetess, 25, 27, 44.
Avarice, 44.
Avianus, 44.
Aymon, Four Sons of, 317.
Babrius, 300.
Babylonian tale, 210.
Bacon on aphorisms, 259.
Baghdadi, witty, 83.
Baharistan, 40, 48, 63, 109.
Bakhtyar Nama, 124, 172.
Barbary Tales, 218.
Barbazan's Fabliaux, 327, 328.
Baring-Gould, 142, 192, 194.
Barlaam and Joasaph, 246, 248.
Basset's Tales of Barbary, 218.
Basket made into a door, 318.
Bayazid and the old woman, 302.
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;
Turkish sultans', 339;
vowing not to cut or shave, 342, 347;
witches', 358;
women, bearded, 358.


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