Vol. ii.  After No. 6 Gauttier places versions of Nos. 32 and 184 by Langles.  The Mock Caliph is here called Aly-Chah.  The other three tales given by Caussin de Perceval from Von Hammer’s MSS. are omitted by Gauttier.  Vol. v. (after No. 198) concludes with two additional tales (Nos. 207h and 218) from Scott’s version.  But the titles are changed, No. 207h being called the Story of the Young Prince and the Green Bird, and No. 218 the Story of Mahmood, although there is another story of Mahmood in vol. 1. (==No. 135m) included as part of the Forty Vazirs.

Vol. vi. includes the Ten Vazirs (No. 174), derived, however, not from the Arabic, but from the Persian Bakhtyar Nameh.  Three of the subordinate tales in the Arabic version are wanting in Gauttier’s, and another is transferred to his vol. vii., but he includes one, the King and Queen of Abyssinia (No. 252), which appears to be wanting in the Arabic.  The remainder of the volume contains tales from Scott’s version, the title of Mazin of Khorassaun (No. 215) being altered to the Story of Azem and the Queen of the Genii.

Vol. vii. contains a series of tales of which different versions of six only (Nos. 30, 174, 246, 248, 249 and 250) were previously published.  Though these have no claim to be considered part of The Nights, they are of sufficient interest to receive a passing mention, especially as Gauttier’s edition seems not to have been consulted by any later writer on The Nights, except Habicht, who based his own edition mainly upon it.  Those peculiar to Gauttier’s edition are therefore briefly noticed.

Princess Ameny (No. 253)—­A princess who leaves home disguised as a man, and delivers another princess from a black slave.  The episode (253b) is a story of enchantment similar to Nos. 1a-c.

Aly Djohary (No. 254)—­Story of a young man’s expedition in search of a magical remedy.

The Princes of Cochin China (No. 255)—­The princes travel in search of their sister who is married to a Jinni, who is under the curse of Solomon.  The second succeeds in breaking the spell, and thus rescues both his brother, his sister, and the Jinni by killing a bird to which the destiny of the last is attached.  (This incident is common in fiction; we find it in the genuine Nights in Nos. 154a and 201.)

The Wife with Two Husbands (No. 256)—­A well-known Eastern story; it may be found in Wells’ “Mehemet the Kurd,” pp. 121-127, taken from the Forty Vazirs.  Compare Gibbs, the 24th Vazir’s Story, pp. 257-266.

The Favourite (No. 257)—­One of the ordinary tales of a man smuggled into a royal harem in a chest (compare Nos. 6b and 166).

Zoussouf and the Indian Merchant (No. 258)—­Story of a ruined man travelling to regain his fortune.

Prince Benazir (No. 258)—­Story of a Prince promised at his birth, and afterwards given up by his parents to an evil Jinni, whom he ultimately destroys. (Such promises, especially, as here, in cases of difficult labour, are extremely common in folk-tales; the idea probably originated in the dedication of a child to the Gods.) Gauttier thinks that this story may have suggested that of Maugraby to Cazotte; but it appears to me rather doubtful whether it is quite elaborate enough for Cazotte to have used it in this manner.