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“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.” (Puris omnia pura)
“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”
“Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre, Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”
“The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly enchanting fictions.”
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Supplemental Nights _TO THE BOOK OF THE_ Thousand Nights and a Night _WITH NOTES ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND EXPLANATORY_ VOLUME III.
PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is
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HENRY EDWARD JOHN, LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY,
The peculiar proceedings of the Curators, Bodleian Library, 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 Daryábár”), 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 receuil 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.