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Title: Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

Author: W. A. Clouston

Release Date: October 26, 2005 [EBook #16949]

Language: English

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"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.

MY DEAR HARTLAND,

Though you are burdened with the duties of a profession far outside of
which lie those studies that have largely occupied my attention for many
years past, yet your own able contributions to the same, or cognate,
subjects of investigation evince the truth of the seemingly paradoxical
saying, that "the busiest man finds the greatest amount of leisure." And
in dedicating this little book to you--would that it were more
worthy!--as a token of gratitude for the valuable help you have often
rendered me in the course of my studies, I am glad of the opportunity it
affords me for placing on record (so to say) the fact that I enjoy the
friendship of a man possessed of so many excellent qualities of hear