Three or four of these tales have appeared in _The Weekly Westminster Gazette_ and _The Chapbook_. The author’s thanks are due for permission to reprint them here. Thanks are also due to the Editor of _The Saturday Review_ for permission to republish the verses in the story called “Dis Aliter Visum.” When Haroun-al-Raschid (of whom I have told you before, and if I haven’t it is only because I have forgotten) was having a bath they wouldn’t let him splash. “By the beard of Allah,” he observed mildly to the Vizier, who was standing by with his favourite celluloid duck (guaranteed to float), “this is preposterous. Cannot the Commander of the Faithful splash a little water? What’s the good of b…
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