A Boswell Of Baghdad

About this eBook

Author

Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938

Title

A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions

Credits

Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Ibn Khallikan, 1211-1282. Wafayat al-a'yan

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20083

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20083

Release Date

December 10, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD — A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD — WITH DIVERSIONS — BY
3. 3.E. V. LUCAS — THIRD EDITION
4. 4.CONTENTS — A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD
5. 5.A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD — I.— Introductory — II.— Ibn Khallikan — III.— Men of Letters — IV.— The First Grammarian — V.— The First Prosodist — VI.— A Group of Poets — VII.— Poetry's Rewards — VIII.— A Brave Poet — IX.— A Western Interlude — X.— Persian Humour — XI.— The Satirists — XII.— An Early Chess Champion — XIII.— Courtesy and Justice — XIV.— The Ascetics — XV.— A Night Scene — XVI.— The Fair — XVII.— The Great Jaafar — XVIII.— Love and Lovers — XIX.— To disarm Critics — DIVERSIONS
6. 6.DIVERSIONS
7. 7.Nurses
8. 8.No. 344260
9. 9.The Two Perkinses
10. 10.Arts of Invasion
11. 11.The Marble Arch and Peter Magnus
12. 12.The Oldest Joke
13. 13.The Puttenhams — I — From The Mustershire Herald and Oldcaster Advertiser — II — Miss Enid Daubeney, who is staying at Sir Jonathan Puttenham's, to her Sister — III — Sir Jonathan Puttenham to the Rev. Stacey Morris, Editor of The Mustershire Archæological Society's Records — IV — Horace Vicary, M.D., of Southbridge, to his old friend the Rev. Stacey Morris — V — Sir Victor Puttenham, F.R.S., to the Editor of The Mustershire Archæological Society's Records — VI — From Sir Jonathan Puttenham to the Editor of The Mustershire Herald and Oldcaster Advertiser — VII — The Rev. Stacey Morris to Sir Jonathan Puttenham — VIII — Miss Lydia Puttenham, of "Weald View," Rusper Common, Tunbridge Wells, to Lady Puttenham — IX — The Rev. Stacey Morris to Ernest Burroughs, the compiler of the Puttenham genealogy
14. 14.Poetry made Easy
15. 15.A Pioneer
16. 16.Full Circle
17. 17.A Friend of Man — In Two Parts — I. THE FALLEN STAR — II. THE NEW BOOK OF BEAUTY
18. 18.The Listener
19. 19.The Dark Secret
20. 20.The Scholar and the Pirate
21. 21.A Set of Three
22. 22.A Lesson — ON BELLONA'S HEM
23. 23.(SECOND SERIES)
24. 24.A Revel in Gambogia
25. 25.The Misfire
26. 26.A Letter — ( From Captain Claude Seaforth to a novelist friend )
27. 27.A Manor in the Air
28. 28.Rivalry
29. 29.A First Communion in the War Zone
30. 30.The Ace of Diamonds
31. 31.The Reward of our Brother the Poilu
32. 32.Note — Transcriber's note

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