Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

“The smiling Garden of Persian Literature”: a Garden which I would describe, in the Eastern style, as a happy spot, where lavish Nature with profusion strews the most fragrant and blooming flowers, where the most delicious fruits abound, which is ever vocal with the plaintive melancholy of the nightingale, who, during day and night, “tunes her love-laboured song”: … where the voice of Wisdom is often heard uttering her moral sentence, or delivering the dictates of experience.—Sir W. Ouseley.

FLOWERS FROM A PERSIAN GARDEN, AND OTHER PAPERS. - By W. A. Clouston, - AUTHOR OF ‘POPULAR TALES AND FICTIONS’ AND ‘BOOK OF NOODLES’; EDITOR OF ‘A GROUP OF EASTERN ROMANCES AND STORIES,’ ‘BOOK OF SINDIBAD,’ ‘BAKHTYAR NAMA,’ ‘ARABIAN POETRY FOR ENGLISH READERS,’ ETC. - LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271, STRAND. MDCCCXC.

TO - E. SIDNEY HARTLAND, Esq., - FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES; MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY, ETC.

FLOWERS FROM A PERSIAN GARDEN.

ORIENTAL WIT AND HUMOUR.

TALES OF A PARROT.

RABBINICAL LEGENDS, TALES, FABLES, AND APHORISMS.

AN ARABIAN TALE OF LOVE.

APOCRYPHAL LIFE OF ESOP, THE FABULIST.

IGNORANCE OF THE CLERGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES.