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To quote from the Introduction of the translation of The Beharistan, which is written in Arbuthnot's bald and hesitating style, "there is in this work very little indeed to be objected to. A few remarks or stories scattered here and there would have to be omitted in an edition printed for public use or for public sale.
Thus he managed to give offence, and quite unnecessarily, to his superior officer, Colonel Henry Corsellis, and they were henceforth at handgrips. Among his favourite books was Jami's Beharistan. The only pity is that he did not take the advice proffered in the Third Garden: "If Alexander's realm you want, to work adroitly go, Make friends more friendly still, and make a friend of every foe."
A. G. Ellis of 8th May 1887, he distinctly calls it "my old version," and he must mean that well-known edition of 1886, because all the other impressions are like it, except in respect to the title page. The Beharistan, 1887. The first to appear was The Beharistan in 1887.
Publications of the Kama Shastra Society. Author. Translator. 1. The Kama Sutra. 1883 Vatsyayana. Bhagvanlal Indraji. 2. The Ananga Ranga. 1885 Kullianmull. The Arabian Nights. 1885-1886. " Burton. 4. Nafzawi. Burton and others. 5. The Beharistan. 1887. Jami. Rehatsek. 6. The Gulistan 1888. Sadi. " or Rose Garden. Works still in Manuscript. Author. Translator 7. The Nigaristan Jawini. Rehatsek. 8.
But Burton made no retort. On the contrary, he bore Speke's petulance with infinite patience. Perhaps he remembered the couplet in his favourite Beharistan: "True friend is he who bears with all His friend's unkindness, spite and gall." There is no need for us to side either with Speke or Burton. Both were splendid men, and their country is proud of them.
Two out of the six actually done: The Beharistan and The Gulistan, and the whole of the nine still in manuscript, might, after a snip or two with the scissors, be read aloud in almost any company. We have the first hint of the Kama Shastra Society in a letter to Payne, 5th August 1882.
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