Crossword-Solution: COMPARER 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Most of the tales related by the wazir Al-Rahwan are not only in themselves entertaining, but are of very considerable importance from the story-comparer's point of view, since in this group occur Eastern forms of tales which were known in Italy in the 14th century, and some had spread over Europe even earlier.

His face was pale and attenuated, the face of a scholar, a dilettante, a comparer of points and texts, a man who lives in a library bending over books and prints and medals.

Perhaps this cannot be made to appear more clearly than in the contrast presented by his "English Note-Books" and "Our Old Home" to Emerson's "English Traits," and Taine's "Notes on England." The latter writer is an acute, alert, industrious, and picturesque comparer of his own and a neighboring country, and is accompanied by a light battery of literary and pictorial criticism, detached from his heavier home armament.

For such an _island_, as we have supposed our comparer to read of, he can look, in imagination, on a space of proportional extent in any part of his native country, taking a district as a detached section of a general national picture.

Lorsque vous l'aurez tout entiËre, Compagnon, comme je l'espËre, Et que votre heur sera parfait, Gardez-la bien et comme fait Qui veut garder telle fleurette: Lors jouirez de l'amourette A qui rien n'ose comparer, Car vous ne sauriez rencontrer En quinze citÈs sa pareille.