of waiting till Galland (who was now come to the end of his
genuine Arabic MS. of the 1001 Nights and was accordingly at a
standstill, till he met with Hanna,) should have procured fresh
material to complete the copy for his eighth volume, of which
Ganem only was then ready for publication, he seems to have
selected (apparently on his own responsibility, but, it must be
admitted, with considerable taste and judgment,) the three tales
in question from the MS. of the 1001 Days, to fill up the lacune.
It does not appear whether he found Codadad and the Princess of
Deryabar arranged as one story ready to his hand or himself
performed (or procured to be performed) the process of fusion,
which, in any case, was executed by no unskilful hand. Be this as
it may, Galland was naturally excessively annoyed at the
publisher's unceremonious proceeding, so much so indeed as for a
time to contemplate renouncing the publication of the rest of the
work, to spare himself (as he says in his Diary, under date of
Dec. 12, 1709) similar annoyances (mortifications) to that which
the printing of the eighth volume had caused him. Indeed, the
effect of this incident was to induce him, not only to change his
publisher, but to delay the publication of the next volume
(which, as we learn from the Diary, was ready for the press at
the end of November or the beginning of December, 1709) for a
whole year, at the end of which time (Diary, November 21, 1710)
he made arrangements with a new (and presumably more trustworthy)
publisher, M. Florentin de Laune, for the printing of Vol. ix.




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