HENLEY’S INTRODUCTION TO THE (ENGLISH) EDITION OF

The Original of the following Story, together with some others of a similar kind, collected in the East by a Man of letters, was communicated to the Editor above three years ago. The pleasure he received from the perusal ofit, induced him at that time to transcribe, and since to translate it. How far the copy may be a just représentation, it becomes not him to détermine. He présumés, however, to hope that, if the difficulty of accommodating our English idioms to the Arabick, preserving the correspondent tones of a diversified narrative, and discriminating the nicer touches of character through the shades of foreign manners, be duly considered; a failure in some points, will not preclude him from ail claim to indulgence : especially, if those images, sentiments, and passions, which, being independent of local peculiarities, may be expressed in every language, shall be found to retain their native energy in our own.

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