Saadi:  sketch of his life, 3;
      character of his writings, 6;
      on a bad musician, 7;
      his ‘Gulistan,’ 9;
      prefaces to books, 11;
      preface to the ‘Gulistan,’ 12;
      the fair cup-bearer, 28;
      assured of lasting fame, 55;
      on money, 125. 
    Sacchetti, 231, 306. 
    Saint-worship, 321, 327. 
    Samradians, sect of the, 97. 
    Satan in form of a deer, 213. 
    Satiety and hunger, 45. 
    Sayce, A. H., 210. 
    Scarronides, 332. 
    Schoolmaster and wit, 79. 
    Scornfulness, 260. 
    Scott’s ‘Lay,’ 331. 
    Scribe’s excuse, 79. 
    Secrets, 48, 263. 
    Seneca on aphorisms, 259. 
    Senegambian Tales, 278. 
    Sermon, burlesque, 328. 
    Servant, wakeful, 112. 
    Servants, lazy, 76. 
    Seven stages of human life, 257. 
    Seven Vazirs, 173
      see also Sindibad, Book of. 
    Seven Wise Masters, 133, 173, 178, 307. 
    Shakspeare, 53, 163, 257, 342, 347, 349, 350. 
    Sheba, Queen of, 218. 
    Shelley’s Queen Mab, 291. 
    Signing with x, 333. 
    Silence, on keeping, 38, 39, 45, 263. 
    Simonides, 40. 
    Sindibad, Book of, 123, 159, 173, 176, 178, 306. 
    Singing Ass, 149. 
    Sinhasana Dwatrinsati, 124. 
    Shopkeeper and governor, 116. 
    Sindban, 173. 
    ‘Skip over three leaves,’ 322. 
    Slander, 44. 
    Slave, witty, 35. 
    Slippers, the unlucky, 83. 
    Smith, Horace, 53. 
    Smiths and rich man, 77. 
    Socrates, 300, 338. 
    Sodom, the citizens of, 198. 
    Solomon:  advice to three men, 215;
      the Queen of Sheba, 218;
      the egg-stealer, 218;
      his signet-ring, 220;
      his lost fables, 239;
      his precocious sagacity, 73;
      his choice of wisdom, 249;
      the serpent’s prey, 274. 
    Son, dutiful, 236. 
    Sorrow, times of, 260. 
    Spectator, Addison’s, 359. 
    Spenser, Edmund, 284. 
    Springtide, in praise of, 14. 
    Stingy merchant and poor Bedouin, 95. 
    Story-teller and the King, 100. 
    Stubbes on beards and barbers, 352. 
    Stupidity, 26. 
    Sufis, 51. 
    Suka Saptati, 124. 
    Sully and the courtiers, 341. 
    Summa Praedicantium, 305. 
    Superiors and inferiors, 260. 
    Swynnerton, Charles, 179. 
    Syntipas, 173.

    Tales and Quicke Answeres, 37, 71, 218, 321. 
    Talkers, comprehensive, 45. 
    Talmud, authors of the, 185, 186;
      traducers of the, 187;
      teachings of the, 188. 
    Tantrakhyana, 159. 
    Taylor’s Wit and Mirth, 330;
      Superbiae Flagellum, 351. 
    Teaching and learning, 262. 
    Temple’s Panjabi Legends, 179. 
    Thalebi and the Khalif, 105. 
    Thief, self-convicted, 218;
      without opportunity, 263.