These translations are some of those that I have made through many years of my life, partly as a pleasurable old-fashioned exercise in matching the expressions and ways of thought in a number of languages with their equivalents in English. By far the earliest of the translations was “The Flower of Bakawaliâ€, done when I was a young man entranced by the discovery of lithographic printings of these stories in elegant nasta ‘liq script on cheap brown paper, ...
