f.  Singular Adventures of Aboulfawaris, surnamed the Great
          Traveller (2 Voyages).
6.  Story of the Two Brother Genii, Adis and Dahy.
7.  Story of Nasiraddole, King of Moussel, of Abderrahman,
     Merchant of Bagdad, and the Beautiful Zeineb.
8.  Story of Repsima=No. 181r.

This work has many times been reprinted in France, where it holds a place only second to The Nights.

Sir R. F. Burton remarks, concerning the Persian and Turkish Tales of Petis de la Crois (the latter of which form part of the Forty Vazirs, No. 251), “Both are weak and servile imitations of Galland by an Orientalist who knew nothing of the East.  In one passage in the story of Fadlallah, we read of ’Le Sacrifice du Mont Arafate,’ which seems to have become a fixture in the European brain.  I found the work easy writing and exceedingly hard reading.”

The following tales require a passing notice:—­

1.  Story of Aboulcassem Bafry.—­A story of concealed treasure; it has also some resemblance to No. 31.

2.  Ruzvanchad and Cheheristani.—­Cheheristani is a jinniyah, who is pursued by the King, under the form of a white doe; marries him, and becomes the mother of Balkis, the Queen of Sheba.  She exacts a promise from him never to rebuke her for any of her actions:  he breaks it, and she leaves him for a time.

2a.  The Young King of Thibet.—­Two imposters obtain magic rings by which they can assume the shapes of other persons.

2a, b.  The Vazir Cavercha.—­This is one of Scott’s stories (No. 223 of our Table).  It goes back at least as far as the Ring of Polycrates.  It is the 8th Vezir’s Story in Mr. Gibbs’ Forty Vezirs (pp. 200-205).

4.  Prince Calaf.—­This story is well known, and is sometimes played as a comedy.  The Princess Turandot puts riddles to her suitors, and beheads them if they fail to answer.

5b.  Story of Prince Seyj-el-Molouk.—­This story is perhaps an older version than that which appears in The Nights (No. 154a).  It is placed long after the time of Solomon; Saad is devoured by ants (Weber (ii. p. 426) has substituted wild beasts!); and when Seyf enters the palace of Malika (=Daulet Khatoon), the jinni surprises them, and is overpowered by Seyf’s ring.  He then informs him of the death of Saad; and that Bedy al-Jernal was one of the mistresses of Solomon; and has also long been dead.

5b.  Malek and Chirine.—­Resembles No. 264; Malek passes himself off as the Prophet Mohammed; burns his box (not chair) with fireworks on his weddingday, and is thus prevented from ever returning to the Princess.

5f.  Adventures of Aboulfawaris.—­Romantic travels, resembling Nos. 132a and 133.

2.  Antar.—­This is the most famous of the Badawi romances.  It resembles No. 137 in several particulars, but is destitute of supernaturalism.  An English abridgment in 4 vols. was published in 1820; and the substance of vol. 1 had appeared, as a fragment, in the previous year, under the title of “Antar, a Bedoueen Romance translated from the Arabic by Terrick Hamilton, Esq., Oriental Secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople.”  I have also seen vol. 1 of a French translation, published about 1862, and extending to the death of Shas.