A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD
OTHER WORKS BY E. V. LUCAS
The Vermilion Box Landmarks Listener's Lure Mr. Ingleside Over Bemerton's London Lavender Cloud and Silver Loiterer's Harvest One Day and Another Fireside and Sunshine Character and Comedy Old Lamps for New The Hambledon Men The Open Road The Friendly Town Her Infinite Variety Good Company The Gentlest Art The Second Post A Little of Everything Harvest Home Variety Lane The Best of Lamb The Life of Charles Lamb A Swan and Her Friends London Revisited A Wanderer in Venice A Wanderer in Paris A Wanderer in London A Wanderer in Holland A Wanderer in Florence The British School Highways and Byways in Sussex Anne's Terrible Good Nature The Slowcoach Remember Louvain! Swollen-Headed William
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The Pocket Edition of the Works of Charles Lamb: I. Miscellaneous Prose; II. Elia; III. Children's Books; IV. Poems and Plays; V. and VI. Letters.
A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD
WITH DIVERSIONS
BY
E. V. LUCAS
THIRD EDITION
METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
_This Book was First Published September 20th 1917_
_Second Edition December 1917_
_Third Edition 1918_
CONTENTS
PAGE
A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD 1
DIVERSIONS--
NURSES 93
NO. 344260 99
THE TWO PERKINSES 106
ARTS OF INVASION 118
THE MARBLE ARCH AND PETER MAGNUS 128
THE OLDEST JOKE 133
THE PUTTENHAMS 140
POETRY MADE EASY 148
A PIONEER 153
FULL CIRCLE 158
A FRIEND OF MAN 164
THE LISTENER 171
THE DARK SECRET 176
THE SCHOLAR AND THE PIRATE 180
A SET OF THREE 191
A LESSON 196
ON BELLONA'S HEM (SECOND SERIES)--
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Boswell of Baghdad by E. V. Lucas
- 2: But towards such inuring Ibn Khallikan should certainly help
- 3: Was professor in the college at Arbela founded by Kukuburi
- 4: The Kadi lived with much honour
- 5: And among famous calligraphers was Kabus Ibn Wushmaghir
- 6: ' Al Khashshab was moved to add
- 7: Whenever Bilal rode by in state
- 8: It was Al Khalil Ibn Ahmad who
- 9: Abd Ar Rahman began very young
- 10: In his elegy on the death of Maan
- 11: Which is what fifty thousand dirhems come to
- 12: Al Wazir Al Muhallabi was both vizier and poet
- 13: Abu Dulaf gave Ibn An Nattah ten thousand dirhems
- 14: When he appeared before Adud Ad Dawlat
- 15: That he went one day to visit An Nami
- 16: Ibn Talib never lit a fire in his house
- 17: In sarcasms Al Yazidi was hard pressed by Abu Obaida
- 18: Imagined the game for the amusement of King Shihram
- 19: The waibas will then become an irdabb bushel
- 20: Of Ishak Ibn Ibrahim Al Mausili
- 21: The khalif Ali Ibn Ali Talib was a very just man
- 22: The following anecdote of the kadi Shuraih
- 23: At Tirmidi replied 'The descent is intelligible
- 24: THE ASCETICSOf Bishr Ibn Al Harith Al Hafi
- 25: But Al Mutawakkil having insisted
- 26: They feared that Al Mutawakkil
- 27: Who then thanked Jaafar for having dispelled his sadness
- 28: Yasir having put Jaafar to death
- 29: Here is an example by Ibn As Sarraj
- 30: All good mimicry astonishes and entertains me
- 31: Bent the spear very noticeably
- 32: 344260 on the table as I write
- 33: Dorothy Perkins is never so lovely as in the evening
- 34: Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green
- 35: He had heard Harry Clifton sing
- 36: Harry Harry Lauder whose tunes are always good
- 37: ' says the agent 'Miss Burgess
- 38: The ghost scare upsets the maids
- 39: Broom should leave the Manor Farm
- 40: No one is fair when hunting the pied a terre
- 41: The tribe of Magnus is very large
- 42: The other would reply in a brogue of deeper richness
- 43: Your devoted ENID IIISir Jonathan Puttenham to the Rev
- 44: JONATHAN PUTTENHAM IVHorace Vicary
- 45: The compiler of the Puttenham genealogyMY DEAR BURROUGHS
- 46: Do they play the panpipes still
- 47: Being myself desired by the Chittagong magistrate
- 48: Dutt had not yet mastered his instrument
- 49: Look at that extraordinary bicycle
- 50: And he amplified his epigram into Pekingese
- 51: Ko ki of Radbourne and Siddington Fi fi
- 52: Said the foolscap letter at last
- 53: No bowler who resented being taken off
- 54: His Marcus Aurelius is his best known work
- 55: For when people could not get good statues
- 56: He might strip the boxer or runner naked
- 57: And if I dedicated this little book to any man
- 58: Even although I was approaching a rehearsal of a revue
- 59: And left me pondering on deafness and dumbness
- 60: A man there said he had met you in Shanghai
- 61: And the French costume naturally took the third prize
- 62: The first soldier did not laugh
- 63: Funny being a private with all that money
- 64: One had red hair and the other black
- 65: Leaving Joan of Arc and Boadicea aside
- 66: A path of more Horsham stone leads to the door
- 67: I mean the freemasonry of mutilation
- 68: Is no one saying anything about your patella
- 69: And principally on my guardian angel
- 70: The Ace of Diamonds The French
- 71: Not that Captain Leclerc is a rustic
- 72: And our Poilu joins these others