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CONTENTS.
No I.
INTRODUCTION—The Rabbi's Account of himself-His Studies
and Pursuits-Remains of the Ancient Library of Alexandria,
Page 13
No II.
Concerning a Sect of Philosophers called Rashites—Marks of a
great Linguist—Fable of the Ear and other Members—Story
of the Durwesh and Sceptic-Arabian Nights—STORY OF AB-
DALLAH, THE SON OF ABULFAID,
30
No III.
STORY OF ABDALLAH, THE SON OF ABULFAID-CONTINUED.
Abdallah's Journey to Babylon—The Tower of Babel-Soliloquy
-Vision of Hermes Trismegistus, and his Address to Abdal. lah,
45
No IV.
CONCLUSION OF THE STORY OF ABDALLAH, THE SON OF
ABULFAID.
Conversation between Hermes and Abdallah_Tale of the Sewah
and Elephant-Panegyric on the Arabic Language-Verses
Conclusion of the Story,
57
No V.
Concerning a Journey which the Rabbi made to India_Bikram
Dilwalee, a Rajpoot-Indian Castes- Story of Two Scribes--
Of a Bear and a Gardener - The Clay and Rose, a Fragment, from Sâdee-Oriental Story-tellers,
69
No VI.
Funds of Oriental Story-telling—The “ Arabian Nights' Enter-
tainments" - Lokman - The Fable or Parable-Meerkhond-
a
Bidpai or Pilpai- Account of his work, and the different
Translations of it-The Brahmuns-General Remark on East.
ern Fables- Æsop-Sâdee,
Page 83
No VII.
Notice of the Life of Sâdee-His Termagant Wife-Anagram on
the Year of his Death-Nakhshebi's Tooti Nameh, or “ Tales
of a Parrot”-Specimen of a Story-teller's Manner-Effect of
his Exhibition on the Audience-Commencement of the Rab-
bi's Intercourse with the Rajpoot-Story of Cassem the Miser
of Bagdad-Fable of the Miser and Magpie-Anecdote of the
Khalif Hesham,
96
No VIII.
The Subject of Avarice continued Abdallah, or Ingratitude
Punished; an Arabian Tale,
116
No IX.
Curious Example of Algerine Justice-The Avaricious Punished;
a Circassian History Indian Stories—The Blind Man and the
Pundit-The Preacher and the Villager,
132
No X.
Story of the Prince and the Shoemaker, (Translation from the
Hindoostanee)- The Rajpoots, Sepoys, or Native Soldiers of
India-Influences of the Heavenly Bodies-Remarkable Ho-
roscope of the Khalif Almotasem—Lucky and Unlucky Days,
149
No XI.
STORY OF THE RAJPOOT.
His Birth and Education-Brahminical Precepts, and Poetical
Aphorisms-Story of the Silent Poet,
168
No XII.
Divine Poems of the Hindoos_The Vedas-Death of Bikram's
Father-A Suttee Indian Names_Story of the Necromancer
and King Bikramaditya, in Illustration of Suttees, 187