. Stories from the Arabian nights . Hodder and Sto ugh tonPublishers, London I 4 All Rights ReservedPrinted in 1907 Butler and Tanner, The Seliuood Printing Works, Frome, and London PREFACE Scheherazade, the heroine of the Thousand andone Nights, ranks among the great story-tellersof the world much as does Penelope among theweavers. Procrastination was the basis of herart; for though the task she accomplished wassplendid and memorable, it is rather in thequantity than the quality of her invention—inthe long spun-out performance of what couldhave been done far more shortly—that shebecomes a fig
. Stories from the Arabian nights . Hodder and Sto ugh tonPublishers, London I 4 All Rights ReservedPrinted in 1907 Butler and Tanner, The Seliuood Printing Works, Frome, and London PREFACE Scheherazade, the heroine of the Thousand andone Nights, ranks among the great story-tellersof the world much as does Penelope among theweavers. Procrastination was the basis of herart; for though the task she accomplished wassplendid and memorable, it is rather in thequantity than the quality of her invention—inthe long spun-out performance of what couldhave been done far more shortly—that shebecomes a figure of dramatic interest. The ideawhich binds the stories together is greater andmore romantic than the stories themselves ; andthough, both in the original and in translation,the diurnal interruption of their flow is more andmore taken for granted, we are never quite I Z 13 vi PREFACE robbed of the sense that it is Scheherazade whois speaking—Scheherazade, loquacious and self-possessed, sitting up in bed at the renewed callo
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