1001 are so nearly finished I am working at my translation.”  He then asks what arrangements Mr. Payne made with the publishers and the cost of the printing.  “All I want,” he says, on April 27th, “is a guide in dealing with that dragon the publisher;” and in later letters he thanks Mr. Payne for answering his questions.  On June 20th (1884) writing from Marienbad he says, “I should much like to know what you are doing with the three supplemental volumes, and I hope that each will refer readers to the source whence you borrow it.  This will be a great aid to the students.  The more I examine your translation the better I like it.  Mine will never be so popular because I stick so much to the text.[FN#412] No arrangements yet make about it, and Ms. will not be all ready till end of January.  We (my wife and I) have enjoyed our ten days at Marienbad muchly, but the weather has as yet prevented bathing; a raw wester with wind and rain.  Bad for poor people who can afford only the 21 days de rigueur.  Cuthbert Bede (Rev. Edward Bradley) is here and my friend J. J. Aubertin is coming.”

121.  At Sauerbrunn, 12th August 1884.

The next letter to Payne, written from Sauerbrunn, in Austria, is dated 12th August 1884.  After enquiring concerning “the supererogatory three vols.” he says, “We left Marienbad last of last month, and came to this place (a very pretty little spa utterly clear of Britishers), where we shall stay till the end of the month and then again for Trieste to make plans for the winter.  Will you kindly let me have the remaining volumes, and when you have a spare quarter of an hour I want a little assistance from you.  When you sent me your Breslau you pencilled in each volume the places from which you had taken matter for translation (How wretchedly that Breslau is edited!) I want these notes scribbled out by way of saving time.  Of course I shall have to read over the whole series; but meanwhile will content myself with your references.  Have you the Arabian Nights published in Turkish by Mr. Clermont Ganneau?  You will want it for the supererogatory.  If you can’t get it I have it somewhere, and will look for it on return to Trieste.  Have you a copy of Trebutien?  Cotton, of Academy has just sent me Clouston’s Book of Sindibad[FN#413] for review.  I thought it was our old friend the sailor, but find out my mistake.  You will have no objection to my naming (in my review) your style in the 1001 as that he should have taken for a model.”

He writes again on September 9th (1884):  “On return here I found Vol. ix., with the dedication which delighted me hugely.  I did not notice your fine work in reviewing the Clouston treatise.  I had not your express permission.  Living so far from the world I am obliged to be very careful in these matters:  one never knows what harm one may be doing unawares.  Of course I shall speak of your translation in my preface, as it deserves to be spoken of.  Nothing would give me greater