Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross

In the evenings, when the purple twilight fell upon Baghdad, Abu Hasan would take up a position at the end of the great bridge, and there, sooner or later, he would accost a str...

But lo, as she was comforting the bird, the other dove suddenly fluttered in and perched upon her shoulder. She gave a cry of delight, and, taking it, held them both together in...

Then Abu Hasan stood aghast. He recognised the merchant of Moussul, and also, for the first time, he recognised Harun-er-Rashid, the caliph of Baghdad, the mighty descendant of...

Two years passed by, and Fate stepped in. Ibn Salám fell stricken with a fever and died. The news spread far, and one day _Majnún_, in a distant city, looked up and heard that _...

But there was no response. The bird stood there, a dumb thing: you see, it could not sing because there was nobody there to wind it up. Then, as Death fastened his empty sockets...

The old man did not notice my curious behaviour--he was always engaged in eating pumpkins--until one day I drank so deep of my new-made wine that I became exalted, and danced an...

Now, as _Blue Beard_ had no children by any of his wives, his sole surviving wife became mistress of all that had been his. All his vast estates and treasures came into her poss...

But neither _Anne_ nor _Fatima_ fell in love with their admirer at first sight. His beard was so blue that they could not endure it, and, between them, they led him a dance. Nei...

So _Cinderella_ ran in and found the mouse trap she had set; and, sure enough, there was a whole family of six--father and mother, a maiden aunt, and three naughty children who...

The work of the FRENCH RED CROSS is done almost entirely by the willing sacrifice of patriotic people who give little or much out of their means. The Comité is pleased to give t...

The gates open and there is rushing to and fro. A man, as lordly as the sun, a white flower with a heart of gold in his girdle, rides in, followed by a retinue found only in the...