"To the pure all things are pure" (Puris omnia pura)
- Arab Proverb.

"Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."
- "Decameron" - conclusion.

"Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum Sed coram Bruto. Brute!
reced, leget.
- Martial.

"Miculx est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rire est
le propre des hommes."
- Rabelais.

"The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand and One
Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively
small part of these truly enchanting fictions."
- Crichton's "History of Arabia."



Contents of the First Volume


Introduction
Story Of King Shahryar and His Brother
a. Tale of the Bull and the Ass
1. Tale of the Trader and the Jinni
a. The First Shaykh's Story
b. The Second Shaykh's Story