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
Nurses
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The Two Perkinses
Arts of Invasion
The Marble Arch and Peter Magnus
The Oldest Joke
The Puttenhams
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Poetry made Easy
A Pioneer
Full Circle
A Friend of Man
In Two Parts
The Listener
The Dark Secret
The Scholar and the Pirate
A Set of Three
A Lesson
ON BELLONA'S HEM
(SECOND SERIES)
A Revel in Gambogia
The Misfire
A Letter
(From Captain Claude Seaforth to a novelist friend)
A Manor in the Air
Rivalry
A First Communion in the War Zone
The Ace of Diamonds
The Reward of our Brother the Poilu
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