The Novelist. No. LXII. Almurath, An Eastern Tale
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Genre: | Regular Feature, Short Fiction |
Subjects: | Education, Cultural Geography, Race, Alchemy, Morality, Religion |
The narrator is the son of an 'eminent merchant in Bagdad' who has been 'instructed by the Magi in all the scientific and abstruse learning of the east' (263). A wastrel, he has an allegorical dream in which water, which represents life, is variously used. Some have the art of 'turning it into gold'; others make 'a sort of menstruum of it to dissolve gold and the other precious metals' (264). | |
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