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SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS - VOLUME 3
SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS - VOLUME 3 RICHARD F. BURTON
VOLUME THREE
Privately Printed By The Burton Club
To Henry Edward John Lord Stanley
of Alderley
This
The Most Innocent Volume of the Nights
is Inscribed by His Old Companion
The Author.
Contents of the Thirteenth Volume.
1. The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam
2. Alaeddin; or The Wonderful Lamp
3. Khudadad and His Brothers
a. History of the Princess of Daryabar
4. The Caliph's Night Adventure
a. The Story of the Blind Man Baba Abdullah
b. History of Sidi Nu'uman
c. History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal
5. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
6. Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad
7. Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu
8. The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette
APPENDIX: VARIANTS AND ANALOGUES
of the Tales in Volume XIII.
By W. A. Clouston.
The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam
Alaeddin; or The Wonderful Lamp
Khudadad and His Brothers
The Story of the Blind Man Baba Abdullah
History of Sisi Nu'uman
History of Khwajah Hasan Al-Habbal
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Khwajah and the Merchant of Baghdad
Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu
The Two Sisters Who Envied Their Cadette
Additional Notes:--
The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam
Alaeddin; or The Wonderful Lamp
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Prince Ahmad and the Fairy Peri-Banu
The Translator's Foreword.
The peculiar proceedings of the Curators Bodleian Library 1
Oxford of which full particulars shall be given in due time
have dislocated the order of my volumes. The Prospectus had
promised that Tome III. should contain detached extracts from the
MS. known as the Wortley-Montague and that No. IV. and part of
No. V. should comprise a reproduction of the ten Tales (or
eleven including "The Princess of Dary?b?r") which have so long
been generally attributed to Professor Galland. Circumstances
however wholly beyond my control have now compelled me to devote
the whole of this volume to the Frenchman's stories.
It will hardly be doubted that for a complete recueil of The
Nights a retranslation of the Gallandian histoires is necessary.
The learned Professor Gustav Weil introduced them all Germanised
literally from the French into the Dritter Band of his
well-known version--Tausend und eine Nacht; and not a few readers
of Mr. John Payne's admirable translation (the Villon) complained
that they had bought it in order to see Ali Baba Aladdin and
others translated into classical English and that they much
regretted the absence of their old favourites.
But the modus operandi was my prime difficulty. I disliked the
idea of an unartistic break or change in the style ever
"T?chnat de rendre mien cet air d'antiquit?"
and I aimed at offering to my readers a homogeneous sequel. My
first thought for securing uniformity of treatment was to tender
the French text into Arabic and then to retranslate it into
English. This process however when tried was found wanting; so
I made inquiries in all directions for versions of the Gallandian
histories which might have been published in Persian Turkish or
Hindustani. Though assisted by the Prince of London Bibliopoles
Bernard Quaritch I long failed to find my want: the vernaculars
in Persian and Turkish are translated direct from the Arabic
texts and all ignore the French stories. At last a friend
Cameron McDowell himself well known to the world of letters
sent me from Bombay a quaint lithograph with quainter
illustrations which contained all I required. This was a version
of Tot?r?m Sh?y?n (No. III.) which introduced the whole of the
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