19 JANUARY 1929, Page 29

In Messrs. Routledge's " Golden Dragon Library " (6s. each

volume) we have looked through The Marvels of India, by Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar, containing some very - quaint (and -a few rather shoclung) travellers' tales, and The _Willis of Wamen which are Turhsh stories written down in the eighteenth century. - If these two volnnaes are fair samples of the rest, the librarY is one that should be popular. Among the best of the Turkish stories are those relating to Deli), a Baghdad adventuress of the time of Haroun-el-Rasehid. This mediaeval Madame Humbert, defrauded both princes and peasants until the story of her infamies spread across the desert as far as Cairo, where she was at last caught. * * * *