P. 513, l. 24 from bottom, _read_ “My, you ought to seen old Henry the Eight,” l. 21 from bottom, _for_ “Nell Gwynne” _read_ “Nell Gwynn,” l. 13 from bottom, _for_ “corn” _read_ “ourn.”
P. 519, No. 100, _omit_ “?” in columns 10 and 15, substituting blanks.
P. 532, is of course Sir R. F. Burton’s, and not mine.
_GALLAND’S MS. AND TRANSLATIONS (pp. 465–470)._
P. 468, l. 4 from bottom, Destains’ “Mille et une Nuits,” should be noticed on p. 472, after l. 2. The full title is as follows:—
_Les Mille et une Nuits_, Contes Arabes, Traduits en François par Galland, Nouvelle édition revue sur les textes orientaux et augmentée de plusieurs nouvelles et contes traduites des langues orientaux, par M. Destains, précédée d’un notice historique sur Galland par M. Charles Nodier. Paris, 1822.
This edition is in 6 vols. 8vo, and proves to be of no special interest. The first 5 vols. contain the ordinary version of Galland, and the 6th vol. contains a selection of tales translated from Scott’s vol. 6, eked out with Chavis and Cazotte’s Story of Habib. (No. 250 of our Table).
_ZOTENBERG’S WORK ON ALADDIN AND ON VARIOUS MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NIGHTS._
One of the most important works which has appeared lately in connection with the Thousand and one Nights, is the following:
_Histoire d’ ‘Alâ Al-Dîn ou la Lampe Merveilleuse._ Texte Arabe publié avec une notice sur quelques manuscrits des Mille et une Nuits par H. Zotenberg, roy. 8vo, Paris, Imprimérie Nationale, 1888, p., 70.
The publication of this work puts an end to the numerous conjectures of scholars as to the source of Galland’s unidentified tales; and the notes on various MSS. of the Nights are also very valuable. It therefore appears desirable to give a tolerably full sketch of the contents of the book.[432]
M. Zotenberg begins with general remarks, and passes on to discuss Galland’s edition (section 1). Although Galland frequently speaks of Oriental tales[433] in his journal, kept at Constantinople in 1672 and 1673, yet as he informs us, in his Dedication to the Marquise d’ O., he only succeeded in obtaining from Syria a portion of the MS. of the Nights themselves with considerable difficulty after his return to France.
There is some doubt as to the date of appearance of the first 6 vols. of Galland’s “Mille et une Nuit.” According to Caussin de Perceval, vols. 1 and 2 were published together in 1704, and vols. 3 and 4 in the course of the same year. Nevertheless, in the copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, vols. 1 and 4 are dated 1704, and vols. 2, 5 and 6 are dated 1705; vol. 3 is missing, just as we have only odd volumes of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th English editions in the British Museum, the 1st being still quite unknown.