The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . illustration lavished upon it in his Notes, that render his edition themost complete commentary we possess on Muslim life and manners,religion and literature, and make it an indispensable supplement to hisfamous Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modem poetry of Eastern life is rapidly fading away under the effacingtouch of European civilisation; the characteristic society in which anHaroon-Er-Rasheed, an Aboo-Nuwas, a Kafoor, a Saladin, or a Kait-Bey, revelled and jes
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . illustration lavished upon it in his Notes, that render his edition themost complete commentary we possess on Muslim life and manners,religion and literature, and make it an indispensable supplement to hisfamous Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modem poetry of Eastern life is rapidly fading away under the effacingtouch of European civilisation; the characteristic society in which anHaroon-Er-Rasheed, an Aboo-Nuwas, a Kafoor, a Saladin, or a Kait-Bey, revelled and jested and conquered, is fast becoming matter ofhistory rather than of experience, a field for the antiquary instead ofthe traveller ; and it is well that we can reconstruct it in the pages ofthe Thousand and One Nights, whose compiler saw it when it wasstill almost in its Golden Prime, and in the Modern Egyptians, whoseauthor knew it when it still preserved the romantic character whichhas charmed and fascinated readers of every age and condition. Stanley Lane-Poole. Tite Day of Tkij,-ki,-Kebeeb, THE EDITORS PEEFACE. A new edition of this work having been required, Mr. Lanewas requested to undertake the correction of the press. But severeliterary labours allowing him no leisure for this object, he namedme, as his pupil in the study of Arabic, familiar with his writings,and for many years resident with him in Cairo, to fill, in somemeasure, his place. I have undertaken this duty with great dif-fidence, from a sense of my own deficiencies and his extensiveknowledge; but I have felt that I could at least insure the cor-rectness of the text, and a scrupulous adherence to his present edition is printed, without any variations of mv own(except those which are marked as such, and have been sub-mitted to Mr. Lane), from a copy of the first and complete edition,i. b viii THE EDITORS PREFACE. with corrections and additions made by Mr. Lane, from time totime, since its firs
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