18.  The Modern Arabian Nights.  By Arthur A’Beckett and Linley Sambourne.  London:  Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1877, sm. 4to., with comic coloured frontispieces and woodcuts.

Four clever satires (social and political) as follows: 

1.  Alley Baber and Son, a Mock Exchange Story. 2.  Ned Redding and the Beautiful Persian. 3.  The Ride of Captain Alf Rashit to Ke-Vere-Street. 4.  Mr. O’Laddin and the Wonderful Lamp.

19.  Tales of the Caliph.  By Al Arawiyah, 8vo., London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1887.

Belongs to Class 5 (Imitations).  Consists of fictitious adventures supposed to have happened to Harun Al-Rashid, chiefly during his nocturnal rambles.

Separate Editions of Single or Composite Tales (Pp. 439
441).

P. 440.—­No. 184 was published under the title of “Woman’s Wit” in the “Literary Souvenir” for 1831, pp.217-237.derived from Langles’ version (Mr. L.C.  Smithers in litt.).

Translation of Cognate Oriental Romances Illustrative
of the Nights (Pp. 441-443).

P. 441, No. 1.  Les Mille et un Jours.

Mr. L. C. Smithers (in litt.) notes English editions published in 1781 and 1809, the latter under the title of “The Persian and Turkish Tales.”

P. 443, No. 5.  Recueil de Contes Populaires de la Kabylie du Djurdjura recueillis et traduits par J. Riviere. 12mo.  Paris:  Leroux. 1882.

This collection is intended to illustrate the habits and ideas of the people.  The tales are very short, and probably very much abridged, but many of them illustrate the Nights.  I may note the following tales as specially interesting from their connection with the Nights, or with important tales in other collections, Oriental or otherwise.

Thadhillala.  A brief abstract of No. 151.

Les deux Freres.  A variant of Herodotus’ Story of Rhampsinitus.

L’homme de bien et le mechant.  A variant of No. 262; or Schiller’s Fridolin.

Le Corbeau et l’Enfant.  Here a child is stolen and a crow left in its place.

H’ab Sliman.  Here an ugly girl with foul gifts is substituted for her opposite.

Le roi et son fils.  Here we find the counterpart of Schaibar (from No. 197), who, however, is a cannibal and devours everybody.

Les Enfants et la Chauve-sourie.  Resembles No. 198.

Le Joueur de Flute.  Resembles Grimm’s story of the Jew in the Bramble-Bush.

Jesus-Christ et la femme infidels (=261 b.; cf.  Nights, x., p. 420).

Le Roitelet.  This is the fable of the Ox and the Frog.

L’idiot et le coucou (=No. 206a).

Moh’amed teen Soltan.  This is one of the class of stories known to folk-lorists as the Punchkin series.  The life of a Ghul is hidden in an egg, the egg in a pigeon, the pigeon in a camel, and the camel in the sea.

Les deux Freres.  A Cinderella story.  The slayer of a hydra is discovered by trying on a shoe.