This is a funny book with many different types, a wide variety of arts, and it contains a lot of poetry, news, anecdotes, and antiquities, many of which delight the hearts and are appreciated by the ear. Among its chapters are: In mentioning the one who was given a gift with it with poetry - The mention of the one to whom a gift was given and he thanked for it with poetry - The mention of the one who requested the gift with poetry. - Mentioning the one who asked for a gift without poetry - In mentioning some of the news of the gifts - In mentioning the one who criticized what was given to him in poetry or prose - In mentioning the one who did not accept the gift by raising it and rejecting it. As an excursion - in mentioning some of the poems of one who was unable to provide a gift, so he confined himself to supplication and relied on praise - in mentioning some of the gifts of the kings of the outskirts [to the Sultan] and their books to him.