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"...beautiful romance, Thalaba the Destroyer, now forgotten original: "in Lethe," referring to the river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology from the 'History of the Maghrabi.' Mr. A. G. Ellis considers these tales to be as good as the old Arabian Nights, and my friend Mr. W. F. Kirby (in the Appendix to The Nights, vol. x, p. 476) quite agrees with him that the Continuation by Chavis and Cazotte is well worth republishing in its entirety. It remained for the Edinburgh Review, in one of those ignorant and insulting articles with which it regularly outrages truth and good taste (No. 535, July 1886), to state: 'Cazotte published his Suite des Mille et une Nuits original: "Continuation of the Thousand and One Nights", a barefaced forgery, in 1785.' A barefaced forgery! This is claimed even though the original Arabic versions of twenty-eight out of thirty-four tales are perfectly well known, and several of these appear in manuscripts of The Thousand Nights and a Night."
The following is a list of the Tales (which differ greatly from those of Chavis and Cazotte) that appeared in the version by Caussin de Perceval.
VOLUME VIII.
The | Thousand and One Nights, | Arab Tales, | Translated into French | By Mr. Galland, | Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and | Belles-Lettres, Professor of the Arabic Language | at the Royal College; | Continued | By Mr. Caussin de Perceval, | Professor of the Arabic Language at the Imperial College. | Volume Eight. | In Paris, | at Le Normant, Printer-Bookseller, | Rue des Prêtres Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. | 1806.
The title page above is translated from the original French.
1. New adventures of the Caliph Haroun Alrashid; or, the story of the granddaughter of Chosroes Anushirwan original: "Chosroès Anouschirvan," a famous Sassanid Persian king..
(Gauttier, History of the Caliph of Baghdad: vol. vii. 117.)
2. The Bimaristan original: "Le Bimaristan." From Persian, meaning a hospital or asylum., or the story of the young Merchant of Baghdad and the unknown lady.
3. The doctor and the young caterer original: "traiteur" of Baghdad.
4. Story of the Sage Hikar.
(Gauttier, History of the Sage Heycar, vii. 313).
5. Story of King Azadbakht, or the ten Viziers.
6. Story of the merchant who became unfortunate.
7. Story of the imprudent merchant and his two children.
8. Story of Abu Sabir original: "Abousaber", or the patient man.
9. Story of Prince Behezad.
10. Story of King Dadbin, or the virtuous Arwa original: "Aroua".
11. Story of King Bakhtzaman.
12. Story of King Khadidan.
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