which contains 472 pages=92 Nights.  It is rudely written, with great carelessness and frequent corrections, and there is a noted improvement in the subsequent vols. which Scott would attribute to another transcriber.  This, however, I doubt:  in vol. i. the scribe does not seem to have settled down to his work.  The Ms. begins abruptly and without caligraphic decoration; nor is there any red ink in vol. i. except for the terminal three words.  The topothesia is in the land of Sasan, in the Isles of Al-Hind and Al-Sind; the elder King being called “Baz” and “Shar-baz” and the younger “Kahraman” (p. l, 11. 5-6), and in the same page (1. 10) “Saharban, King of Samarkand”; while the Wazir’s daughters are “Shahrzadah” and “Dunyazadah” (p. 8).  The Introduction is like that of the Mac.  Edit. (my text); but the dialogue between the Wazir and his Daughter is shortened, and the “Tale of the Merchant and his Wife,” including “The Bull and the Ass,” is omitted.  Of novelties we find few.  When speaking of the Queen and Mas’ud the Negro (called Sa’id in my text, p. 6) the author remarks:—­

Take no black to lover; pure musk tho’ he be * Carrion-taint shall pierce to the nose of thee.

And in the “Tale of the Trader and the Jinni " (Ms. 1, 9:  see my transl. 1, 25) the ’Ifrit complains that the Merchant had thrown the date-stones without exclaiming “Dastur!”—­by thy leave.

The following is a list of the Tales in vol. i.:—­

Page

Introductory Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9
Tale of the Trader and the Jinni, Night i.-ii. . . . . . . . . .9
The First Shaykh’s Story, Night ii.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Second Shaykh’s Story, Night ii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
The Third Shaykh’s Story, Night iv.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Scott, following “Oriental Collections,” ii. 34, supposes that the latter was omitted by M. Galland “on account of its indecency, it being a very free detail of the amours of an unfaithful wife.”  The true cause was that it did not exist in Galland’s Copy of The Nights (Zotenberg, Histoire d’ ’Ala al-Din, p. 37).  Scott adds, “In this copy the Genie restores the Antelope, the Dogs and the Mule to their pristine forms, which is not mentioned by Galland, on their swearing to lead virtuous lives.”

Page
Conclusion of the Trader and the Jinni, Night v. . . . . . . . 43
The Fisherman and the Jinni, including the Tales of the Sage
Duban and the ensorcelled Prince
and omitting the Stories (1) of King Sindibad and his Falcon
(2) the Husband and the Parrot and (3) the Prince and the
Ogress.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad, Night v. . . . . .100
The First Kalandar’s Tale, Night xxxix.. . . . . . . . . . . .144
The Second Kalandar’s Tale, Night xlviii.. . . . . . . . . . .152

     (The beginning of this Tale is wanting in the Ms. which
     omits p. 151:  also The Envier and the Envied, admitted into
     the list of Hikayat, is here absent.)