Arabian Nights, 93, 123, 178, 196, 212. 
    Archery feat, 20. 
    Arienti, 203. 
    Ashaab the covetous, 93. 
    Ass, the singing, 149. 
    Astrologer’s faithless wife, 36. 
    Attar, Faridu ’d-Din, 51. 
    Athenaeus, 262. 
    Athenians and Jewish boys, 117, 118. 
    Auvaiyar, Tamil poetess, 25, 27, 44. 
    Avarice, 44. 
    Avianus, 44. 
    Aymon, Four Sons of, 317.

    Babrius, 300. 
    Babylonian tale, 210. 
    Bacon on aphorisms, 259. 
    Baghdadi, witty, 83. 
    Baharistan, 40, 48, 63, 109. 
    Bakhtyar Nama, 124, 172. 
    Barbary Tales, 218. 
    Barbazan’s Fabliaux, 327, 328. 
    Baring-Gould, 142, 192, 194. 
    Barlaam and Joasaph, 246, 248. 
    Basset’s Tales of Barbary, 218. 
    Basket made into a door, 318. 
    Bayazid and the old woman, 302. 
    Beal, Samuel, 147. 
    Beards:  Asiatics’, 338;
      Ballad of the Beard, 355;
      Barnes in defence of the Beard, 356;
      Britons’ and Normans’, 344;
      Coverley (Sir Roger de), on his ancestors’, 359;
      dedicated to deities, 339;
      dyeing the beard, 349;
      famous beards, 344, 346;
      French kings’, 346;
      Greeks’, 338;
      Monks’, 343;
      Pope Julius II, 341;
      pledged for loans, 342;
      pulling beard, 343;
      reformers’, 344;
      Roman youths’, 337;
      Sully’s beard, 341;
      shapes of, 350, 351, 352, 355;
      taxes on, 345;
      tokens of wisdom, 338;
      Turkish sultans’, 339;
      vowing not to cut or shave, 342, 347;
      witches’, 358;
      women, bearded, 358. 
    Beast-fables, origin of, 239, 299. 
    Beaumont, bp. of Durham, 318. 
    Beauty unadorned, 46. 
    Beggar and Khoja, 68. 
    Bendall, Cecil, 159. 
    Beneficence, 24, 44, 48. 
    Berenger-Feraud, 278. 
    Berkeley’s ‘ideal’ theory, 97. 
    Beryn, Tale of, 212, 306. 
    Bhartrihari, 258. 
    Bible, 191, 193, 205, 207, 229, 231, 239, 240, 249, 251,
           254, 257, 261, 270, 323, 331, 332. 
    Bidpai’s Fables, 39. 
    Birth, pride of, 22. 
    Bishop and ignorant priest, 316;
      and the simple youth, 317. 
    ‘Bi’smi’llahi,’ etc., 53. 
    Bi-sexual nature of Adam, 191. 
    Blemont, Emile, 274. 
    Blind man’s wife, 62. 
    Blockheads, list of, 80. 
    Boccaccio’s Decameron, 82, 217, 231. 
    Boethius’ Consol.  Phil., 131. 
    Bonaventure des Periers, 82, 323, 325. 
    Borde, Andrew, 356, 357. 
    Boy in terror at sea, 22. 
    Bride and Bridegroom, 250. 
    Bromyard, John, 305. 
    Broth, Hot, 69. 
    Buddha, Rom.  Hist, of, 147. 
    Buddha’s Dhammapada, 261. 
    Buddhaghosha’s Parables, 163, 261. 
    Burns, the Scottish poet, 262, 263. 
    Butler’s Hudibras, etc., 332, 345, 346. 
    Burton, Sir R. F., 38, 274. 
    Buthayna and Jamil, 294. 
    Buzurjmihr on silence, 38.