history of the translation of The Arabian Nights, The Scented
Garden, and other works. Hundreds of new facts are recorded
respecting these and other absorbing topics, while the citations
from the unpublished letters of Burton and Lady Burton will, we are
sure, receive a welcome. We are able to give about fifty entirely
new anecdotes--many of them extremely piquant and amusing. We also
tell the touching story of Burton's brother Edward. In our accounts
of Burton's travels will be found a number of interesting facts and
some anecdotes not given in Burton's works.

The new material has been derived from many sources--but from ten in
particular.

(1) From two hundred unpublished letters of Sir Richard Burton
and Lady Burton.

(2) From interviews with Mrs. E. J. Burton[FN#3] and
Mr. F. Burton (Burton's cousins), Mr. John Payne, Mrs. Arbuthnot,
Mr. Watts-Dunton, Mr. W. F. Kirby, Mr. A. G. Ellis, Dr. Codrington,
Professor James F. Blumhardt, Mr. Henry R. Tedder (librarian and
secretary of The Athenaeum, Burton's club), Mrs. Baddeley (mother of
Burton's friend, St. Clair Baddeley), Madame Nicastro (sister of the
late Mr. Albert Letchford, illustrator of The Arabian Nights),
Dr. Grenfell Baker (Burton's medical attendant during the last three
years of his life), and many other ladies and gentlemen.

(3) From letters received from Major St. George Burton (to whom
I have the pleasure of dedicating this work), Lady Bancroft,
Mr. D. MacRitchie, Mr. E. S. Mostyn Pryce (representative of
Miss Stisted), Gunley Hall, Staffordshire, M. Charles Carrington,