The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Anonymous
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links without which the chain of narrative is weakened or broken.
These are liberties which must be allowed, unless the translator's object be to produce a mutilated version of a mutilation. Here also I must express my cordial gratitude to Mr. Alexander J. Cotheal, Consul-General for Nicaragua, in New York. This distinguished Arabist not only sent to me across the seas his MS. containing, inter alia, "The Tale of Attaf," he also under took to translate it for my collection upon my distinct assurance that its many novelties of treatment deserved an especial version. Mr. W. F. Kirby has again conferred upon my readers an important service by his storiological notes. Lastly, Dr. Steingass has lent me, as before, his valuable aid in concluding as he did in commencing this series, and on putting the colophon to The Sixteenth Volume of The Thousand Nights and a Night. RICHARD F. BURTON United Service Club, August 1st, 1888. |
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