“Yet another translation of The Nights has been made into Hindustani, and this a versified paraphrase, the work of three authors whose takhallus or noms de plume, were as follows, “Nasím” (Muhammad Asghar Ali Khán), translator of the first Jild, “Sháyán” (Totárám Sháyán), who undertook the second and third Jilds, and “Chaman” (Shádí Lál) by whom the fourth and last Jild was translated. The work is complete in 1,244 pages 4to, and was lithographed at Lucknow; Jilds i.-iii. in A.H. 1278 (A.D. 1862) and Jild iv. in 1285 (A.D. 1869). This translation is also divided into Nights, differing slightly from the prose translation of Totárám Sháyán, as the first Jild has 251 Nights and the others 250 each.”
And now I have only to end this necessarily diffuse Foreword with my sincerest thanks to Mr. E. J. W. Gibb who permitted me to print his version of the Turkish Zayn al-Asnam; to Mr. Clouston, the Storiologist, who has brought his wide experience of Folk-lore to bear upon the tales included in my Third Supplemental Volume; and to Dr. Steingass, who during my absence from England kindly passed my proofs through the press.
SAUERBRUNN-ROHITSCH, STYRIA. _Sept. 15, ’87._
_a._ THE TURKISH VERSION BY E. J. W. GIBB 39
_a._ THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF GALLAND 193
3. ADVENTURES OF KHUDADAD AND HIS BROTHERS 267
_a._ HISTORY OF THE PRINCESS OF DARYABAR 281
4. HISTORY OF THE CALIPH’S NIGHT ADVENTURE 307
_a._ STORY OF THE BLIND MAN, BABA ABDULLAH 311
_c._ HISTORY OF KHWAJAH HASAN AL-HABBAL 341
5. STORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES 369
6. STORY OF ALI KHWAJAH AND THE MERCHANT OF BAGHDAD 405
7. ADVENTURES OF PRINCE AHMAD AND THE FAIRY PERIBANU 419
8. TALE OF THE TWO SISTERS WHO ENVIED THEIR CADETTE 491
OF THE TALES IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS, VOL. III.
THE STORY OF THE BLIND MAN, BABA ABDULLAH 582
ALI KHWAJAH AND THE MERCHANT OF BAGHDAD 596
THE TWO SISTERS WHO ENVIED THEIR CADETTE 617
ADDITIONAL NOTES:— THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM 649 ALADDIN; OR THE WONDERFUL LAMP 650 ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES 650 THE TALE OF PRINCE AHMAD 652
Now when it was the Four Hundred and Ninety-seventh Night,[7]
Quoth Dunyázád, “O sister mine, an thou be other than sleepy, tell us one of thy fair tales, so therewith we may cut short the waking hours of this our night;” and quoth the King, “Let it be