gles. Payne's translation is
in reality as true to the text as Burton's.]

[Footnote 413: By W. A. Clouston, 8vo., Glasgow, 1884. Only 300 copies
printed.]

[Footnote 414: Mr. Payne understood Turkish.]

[Footnote 415: Copies now fetch from L30 to L40 each. The American reprint,
of which we are told 1,000 copies were issued a few years ago, sells for
about L20.]

[Footnote 416: He had intended to write two more volumes dealing with the
later history of the weapon.]

[Footnote 417: It is dedicated to Burton.]

[Footnote 418: For outline of Mr. Kirby's career, see Appendix.]

[Footnote 419: Burton read German, but would never speak it. He said he hated
the sound.]

[Footnote 420: We cannot say. Burton was a fair Persian scholar, but he could
not have known much Russian.]

[Footnote 421: See Chapter ix.]

[Footnote 422: This essay will be found in the 10th volume of Burton's Arabian
Nights, and in the eighth volume (p. 233) of the Library Edition.]

[Footnote 423: Mr. Payne's account of the destruction of the Barmecides is one
of the finest of his prose passages. Burton pays several tributes to it.
See Payne's Arabian Nights, vol. ix.]

[Footnote 424: Tracks of a Rolling Stone, by Hon. Henry J. Coke, 1905.]

[Footnote 425: Lady Burton's edition, issued in 1888, was a failure. For the
Library Edition, issued in 1894, by H. S. Nichols, Lady Burton received,
we understand, L3,000.]

[Footnote 426: Duvat inkstand, dulat fortune. See The Beharistan, Seventh
Garden.]

[Footnote 427: Mr. Arbuthnot was the only man whom Burton addressed by a
nickname.]

[Footnote 428: Headings of Jami's chapters.]

[Footnote 429: It appeared in 1887.]

[Footnote 430: Abu Mohammed al Kasim ibn Ali, surnamed Al-Hariri (the silk
merchant), 1054 A. D. to 1121 A. D. The Makamat, a collection of witty
rhymed tales, is one of the most popular works in the East. The interest
clusters round the personality of a clever wag and rogue named Abu Seid.]

[Footnote 431: The first twenty-four Makamats of Abu Mohammed al Kasim al
Hariri, were done by Chenery in 1867. Dr. Steingass did the last 24,
and thus completed the work. Al Hariri is several times quoted in the
Arabian Nights. Lib. Ed. iv., p. 166; viii., p. 42.]

[Footnote 432: Times, 13th January 1903.]

[Footnote 433: Lib. Ed. vol. 8, pp. 202-228.]

[Footnote 434: See Notes to Judar and his Brethren. Burton's A. N., vi., 255;
Lib. Ed., v., 161.]

[Footnote 435: Burton's A. N.