[FN#443] This is a variant of the Nose-Tree; I do not remember another in genuine Oriental literature (cf.  Nights, x., app., p. 449).]

[FN#444] How small the world becomes in this story!

[FN#445] It is evident that a young she-bear is all that is meant.

[FN#446]These Vigilants and Purifiers, with that hypocritical severity which ever makes the worst sinner in private the most rigorous judge in public, lately had the imprudent impudence to summons a publisher who had reprinted the Decameron with the “objectionable passages” in French.  Mr. Alderman Faudell Phillips had the good sense contemptuously to dismiss the summons.  Englishmen are no longer what they were if they continue to tolerate this Ignoble espionnage of Vicious and prurient virtuous “Associations.”  If they mean real work why do they commence by condemning scholar-like works, instead of cleansing the many foul cesspools of active vice which are a public disgrace to London.

[FN#447] It may serve the home-artist and the home-reader to point out a few of the most erroneous The harp (i. 143) is the Irish and not the Eastern, yet the latter has been shown In i. 228; and the “Kanun " (ii. 77) is a reproduction from Lane’s Modern Egyptians.  The various Jinnis are fanciful, not traditional, as they should be (see inter alia Doughty’s Arabia Deserta, ii. 3, etc.).  In i. 81 and ii. 622 appears a specimen bogie with shaven chin and “droopers” by way of beard and mustachios:  mostly they have bestial or simiad countenances with rabbits’ ears, goats’ horns and so forth (i. 166, 169; ii. 97, 100), instead of faces more or less human and eyes disposed perpendicularly.  The spreading yew-tree (i. 209) is utterly misplaced.  In many the action is excessive, after the fashion of the Illustrateds (i. 281, 356, 410 and 565; ii. 366, 374).  The scymitar and the knife, held in the left hand or slung by the left flank, are wholly out of order (i. 407 ii.281,374; iii.460) and in iii. 355, the blade is wider than the wielder’s waist.  In i. 374 the astrolabe is also held in the left hand.  The features are classical as those of Arsinoe, certainly not Egyptian, in i. 15; i. 479 and passim.  The beggar-women must not wander with faces bare and lacking “nose-bags” as in i. 512.  The Shah (i. 523) wears modern overalls strapped down over dress-bottines:  Moreover he holds a straight-bladed European court-sword, which is correct in i. 527.  The spears (i. 531) are European not Asiatic, much less Arabian, whose beams are often 12-15 feet long.  Aziz (i. 537) has no right to tricot drawers and shoes tightened over the instep like the chaussure of European moutards:  his foot (i. 540) is wholly out of drawing, like his hand, and the toes are European distortions.  The lady writing (i. 581) lacks all local colour; she should sit at squat, support the paper in the hollow of her left instead of using a portfolio, and with her right ply the reed or “pen of brass.”