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314 and men of letters and poets, appear to have been transcribed or adapted from the works of well-known historians and geographers and from such famous collections as the Helbeit el Kumeit and the Kitab el Aghani. For instance, the story of (Vol. IV.) is found (in almost exactly the same terms) in Fekhreddin Razi, the anecdote of Omar ben el Khettab and the poor woman as well as the story of  (Vol. V.) and others in Et Teberi, (Vol. III.) in El Mesoudi,  (Vol. III.) in a Spanish-Arabic historian, (Vol. IV.) and (Vol. V.) as well as certain parts of and, in El Cazwini,  (Vol. VI.), (Vol. IV.) and (Vol. VI. p. 208) in the Kitab el Aghani, (Vol. VI.) in the Helbeit el Kumeit, (Vol. IV.) in Ibn el Jauzi, (Vol. III.) in the Spanish historian Ibrahim el Andalousi, (Vol. IV.) in the Mirat el Jenan, (Vol. IV.) in Ibn el Werdi, etc., etc. To conclude this cursory sketch, I have but to mention that the fables and apologues, which form another considerable feature of the work, have apparently been added to the collection from time to time and appear to be mostly derived from Greek, Persian and Indian sources, such as the Hitopadesa, the Fables of Æsop and Kelileh wa Dimneh.