Index:Stories from the Arabian nights 1907 - Houseman - Dulac.djvu

Title	Stories from the Arabian Nights
Author	Laurence Housman
Illustrator	Edmund Dulac
Year	1907
Publisher	Hodder and Stoughton
Location	London
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
OCLC	963752306

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CONTENTS

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The Fisherman and the Genie	1
The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles	17
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	31
The Story of the Magic Horse	66
The Story of the Wicked Half-Brothers	100
The Story of the Princess of Deryabar	111

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and One Nights	Frontispiece
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2. And there in its midst stood a mighty Genie	2
3. When having brought into submission all the rest of my race	4
4. No sooner had the monarch seen them, so strange of form and so brilliant and diverse in hue	9
5. Thereupon the damsel upset the pan into the fire	10
6. Recalling the fisherman by a swift messenger.	10
7. He arrived within sight of a palace of shining marble	14
8. The Queen of the Ebony Isles	17
9. Supposing me asleep, they began to talk	17
10. The cup of wine which she gives him each night contains a sleeping-draught	18
11. She went on to vent her malice upon the city and islands	22
12. Began to heap upon me terms of the most violent and shameful abuse	22
13. Thus by her wicked machinations the city became a lake	22
14. Great was the astonishment of the Vizier and the Sultan's escort	27
15. Their chief in a low but distinct voice uttered the two words "Open Sesame!"	32
16. Ali Baba departed for the town a well satisfied man	34
17. As soon as he came in she began to jeer at him	36
18. Greater still was the exultation of a greedy nature like that of Cassim's	38
19. Mustapha doubted much of his ability to refrain from question	43
20. This way and that she led him blindfold	44
21. Having transformed himself by disguise	46
22. "Sir," said he, "I have brought my oil a great distance to sell to-morrow"	51
23. She poured into each jar in turn a sufficient quantity of the boiling oil to scald its occupant to death	54
24. When Morgiana, who had remained all this time on the watch	56
25. Then for the last figure of all she drew out the dagger	63
26. At so arrogant a claim all the courtiers burst into loud laughter	68
27. As he descended, the daylight in which hitherto he had been travelling faded from view	72
28. He saw black eunuchs lying asleep	73
29. She gave orders for a rich banquet to be prepared	75
30. Till the tale of her mirror contented her	76
31. She cried: "O miserable man, what sorry watch is this that thou hast kept"	77
32. All this time the Princess had been watching the combat from the roof of the palace	84
33. In the garden of the summer palace all was silence and solitude	85
34. Sat by the lake and solaced themselves sweetly with love	85
35. It was in vain that all the wisest physicians in the country were summoned into consultation	93
36. For many months he travelled without clue	94
37. And ever with the tears falling down from her eyes she sighed and sang	96
38. There appeared before him an old man of venerable appearance	100
39. Pirouzè, the fairest and most honourably born	101
40. Reaching his farthest wounded the giant in the knee	107
41. The lady advanced to meet him	107
42. A city among the Isles named Deryabar	111
43. Presently in the distance he perceived a light	111
44. The ship struck upon a rock	115
45. And presently, feeling myself lifted by men's hands	115
46. The Princess of Deryabar	119
47. She found to her grief the place where Codadad had lain left vacant	121
48. She and her companion arrived at the city of Harran	123
49. And taking her hand he led her to the apartments of the Queen Pirouzè	127
50. After these, maidens on white horses, with heads unveiled, bearing in their hands baskets of precious stones	129