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[FN#43] The word is mostly plural = Jinnis: it is also singular =

a demon; and Jan bin Jan has been noticed.

[FN#44] With us moderns "liver" suggests nothing but malady: in

Arabic and Persian as in the classic literature of Europe it is

the seat of passion, the heart being that of affection. Of this

more presently.

[FN#45] Originally in Al-Islam the concubine (Surriyat, etc.) was

a captive taken in war and the Koran says nothing about buying

slave-girls. But if the captives were true believers the Moslem

was ordered to marry not to keep them. In modern days concubinage

has become an extensive subject. Practically the disadvantage is

that the slave-girls, knowing themselves to be the master's

property, consider him bound to sleep with them; which is by no

means the mistress's view. Some wives, however, when old and

childless, insist, after the fashion of Sarah, upon the husband

taking a young concubine and treating her like a daughter-which

is rare. The Nights abound in tales of concubines, but these are

chiefly owned by the Caliphs and high officials who did much as

they pleased. The only redeeming point in the system is that it

obviated the necessity of prostitution which is, perhaps, the

greatest evil known to modern society.