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  • 1. The History of Prince Zeyn Alasnam and the King of the Genii.
  • 2. The History of Codadad and the Princess of Deryabar.
  • 3. The Story of the Sleeper Awakened.
  • 4. Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp.
  • 5. The Story of the Blind Man Baba Abdalla.
  • 6. The Story of Sidi Nouman.
  • 7. The Story of Cogia Hassan Alhabbal.
  • 8. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
  • 9. Ali Cogia, the Merchant of Baghdad.
  • 10. Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari-Banou.
  • 11. The Sisters who envied their younger Sister.

Of these, the Story of the Sleeper Awakened is the only one which has been traced to an Arabic original, existing either separately or in connection with the Thousand Nights and One Night, and is found in the Breslau edition of the complete work, printed by Dr. Habicht from a manuscript of Tunisian origin, apparently of much later date than the other known copies. It also occurs in a MS. copy in the British Museum and will be found translated among the stories from printed texts of the Thousand Nights and One Night (not contained in my standard text or in the Boulac edition) which it is proposed to issue as a supplement to the present work. Galland himself cautions us that the stories of Zeyn Alasnam and Codadad do not belong to the Thousand and One Nights and were published (how he does not explain) without his authority; and the concluding portion of his MS., presumably containing the larger half of Camaralzaman, the whole of Ganem and the Enchanted Horse, as well as all the intercalated tales (that is to say, nearly