"The Squire’s Tale of Canace and the Talking Falcon" published ,1942 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Prince of Tartary named Cambuscan had a wife, Elpheta, two sons, Algarsyf and Cambalo, and a daughter Canace. She was the youngest and the only one who counts in this story, but it is usual to mention the others, and we follow tradition. Cambuscan was the greatest of rulers. His wife Elpheta was a complete success in motherhood and housekeeping. The three children were all paragons, but Canace was something special. Had her character been less


In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.


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