have been
translated, pp. 7 to 21.
Arabic.
i. Selected historical and other extracts from the celebrated
Arabic work, Al Moustairaf, pp. 1 to 5.
ii. Some extracts from the well-known Siraj-ul-moluk, pp. 5 to 7.
iii. Twenty-five chapters of Extracts from the Arabic Tuhfat
ekhoan us safa, under the title of "Discussion between man and
animals before the King of the Jinns," pp. 7 to 33.
4. Biography of our Lord Muhammed, Apostle of Allah (Benediction of
Allah and peace be on him).
According to the tradition of A'bdu-l-Malik Ebn Hasham, obtained
from Muhammed Ebn Esahag. Translated from the Arabic by Edward
Rehatsek. Preface by F. F. Arbuthnot.
There is some account of this work in F. F. Arbuthnot's Arabic
Authors, pp. 52 and 53.
Appendix X
W. F. Kirby
William Forsell Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S., is the son of Samuel Kirby,
banker, and his wife Lydia, nee Forsell; nephew of William Kirby,
well-known in connection with the London Orphan Asylum; and cousin
to the popular authoresses, Mary and Elizabeth Kirby. Born at
Leicester, 14th January 1844. He was assistant in the museum of
Royal Dublin Society (later National Museum of Science and Art) from
1867 to 1879, and later was transferred to the Zoological Department
of the British Museum. He is member of several learned societies,
and has written a large number of Entomological Works. He has made
a special study of the European editions of the Arabian Nights and
its imitations, and has a very fine collection of books relating to
this subject. To his contributions to Sir Richard Burton's
translation we have already alluded. He has also written
Ed-Dimiryaht and other poems (1867); The New Arabian Nights (1883);
and The Hero of Esthonia (1905); and his translation of the Kalevala
is in the press. Mr. Kirby married in 1866, Johanna Maria Kappel,
who died in 1893, leaving one son, William E. Kirby, M.D.
Appendix 11
Genealogical Table. The Burtons of Shap
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Footnotes:
[Footnote 1: The few anecdotes that Lady Burton does give are taken from the
books of Alfred B. Richards and others.]
[Footnote 2: Lady Burton to Mrs. E. J. Burton, 23rd March 1891. See Chapter
xxxix.]
[Footnote 3: A three days' visit to Brighton, where I was the guest of Mrs. E.
J. Burton, is one of the pleasantest of my recollections.]
[Footnote 4: Mrs.
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