Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
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om Hanna's
lips and by the aid of copious summaries made at the time. These
entries in Galland's diary dispose, therefore, of the question of
the origin of the "interpolated" tales, with the exception (1) of
The Sleeper Awakened (with which we need not, for the present,
concern ourselves farther) and (2) of Nos. 1 and 2a and b, i.e.
Zeyn Alasnam, Codadad and his brothers and The Princess of
Deryabar (forming, with Ganem, his eighth volume), as to which
Galland, as I pointed out in my terminal essay (p. 264), cautions
us, in a prefatory note to his ninth volume, that these two
stories form no part of the Thousand and One Nights and that they
had been inserted and printed without the cognizance of the
translator, who was unaware of the trick that had been played him
till after the actual publication of the volume, adding that care
would be taken to expunge the intrusive tales from the second
edition (which, however, was never done, Galland dying before the
republication and it being probably found that the stra
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