[FN#221] See Journ.  Asiatique, iii. serie, vol. viii., Paris, 1839.

[FN#222] “Tausend und Eine Nacht:  Arabische Erzaehlungen.  Zum ersten mal aus einer Tunisischen Handschrift ergaenzt und vollstandig uebersetzt,” Von Max Habicht, F. H. von der Hagen und Karl Schatte (the offenders?).

[FN#223] Dr. Habicht informs us (Vorwort iii., vol. ix. 7) that he obtained his MS. with other valuable works from Tunis, through a personal acquaintance, a learned Arab, Herr M. Annagar (Mohammed Al-Najjar?) and was aided by Baron de Sacy, Langles and other savants in filling up the lacunae by means of sundry MSS.  The editing was a prodigy of negligence:  the corrigenda (of which brief lists are given) would fill a volume; and, as before noticed, the indices of the first four tomes were printed in the fifth, as if the necessity of a list of tales had just struck the dense editor.  After Habicht’s death in 1839 his work was completed in four vols. (ix.-xii.) by the well-known Prof.  H. J. Fleischer who had shown some tartness in his “Dissertatio Critica de Glossis Habichtianis.”  He carefully imitated all the shortcomings of his predecessor and even omitted the Verzeichniss etc., the Varianten and the Glossary of Arabic words not found in Golius, which formed the only useful part of the first eight volumes.

[FN#224] Die in Tausend und Eine Nacht noch nicht uebersetzten Naechte, Erzaehlungen und Anekdoten, zum erstenmal aus dem Arabischen in das Franzoesische uebersetzt von J. von Hammer, und aus dem Franzoesischen in das Deutsche von A. E. Zinserling, Professor, Stuttgart und Tubingen, 1823.  Drei Bde. 80 .  Trebutien’s, therefore, is the translation of a translation of a translation.

[FN#225] Tausend und Eine Nacht Arabische Erzaehlungen.  Zum erstenmale aus dem Urtexte vollstaendig und treu uebersetze von Dr. Gustav Weil.  He began his work on return from Egypt in 1836 and completed his first version of the Arabische Meisterwerk in 1838-42 (3 vols. roy. oct.).  I have the Zweiter Abdruck der dritten (2d reprint of 3d) in 4 vols. 8vo., Stuttgart, 1872.  It has more than a hundred woodcuts.

[FN#226] My learned friend Dr. Wilhelm Storck, to whose admirable translations of Camoens I have often borne witness, notes that this Vorhalle, or Porch to the first edition, a rhetorical introduction addressed to the general public, is held in Germany to be valueless and that it was noticed only for the Bemerkung concerning the offensive passages which Professor Weil had toned down in his translation.  In the Vorwort of the succeeding editions (Stuttgart) it is wholly omitted.

[FN#227] The most popular are now “Mille ed una notte.  Novelle Arabe.”  Napoli, 1867, 8vo illustrated, 4 francs; and “Mille ed une notte.  Novelle Arabe, versione italiana nuovamente emendata e corredata di note”; 4 vols. in 32 (dateless) Milano, 8vo, 4 francs.

[FN#228] These are; (l) by M. Caussin (de Perceval), Paris, 1806, 9 vols. 8vo. (2) Edouard Gauttier, Paris, 1822-24:  7 vols. 12mo; (3) M. Destain, Paris, 1823-25, 6 vols. 8vo, and (4) Baron de Sacy, Paris. 1838 (?) 3 vols. large 8vo, illustrated (and vilely illustrated).