Suppl., vi., 454; Lib. Ed., xii., 278. Others
who assisted Burton were Rev. George Percy Badger, who died February
1888, Mr. W. F. Kirby, Professor James F. Blumhardt, Mr. A. G. Ellis,
and Dr. Reinhold Rost.]

[Footnote 436: See Chapter xxx.]

[Footnote 437: This work consists of fifty folk tales written in the
Neapolitan dialect. They are supposed to be told by ten old women for
the entertainment of a Moorish slave who had usurped the place of the
rightful Princess. Thirty-one of the stories were translated by John E.
Taylor in 1848. There is a reference to it in Burton's Arabian Nights,
Lib. Ed., ix., 280.]

[Footnote 438: Meaning, of course, Lord Houghton's money.]

[Footnote 439: Cf. Esther, vi., 8 and 11.]

[Footnote 440: Ought there not to be notices prohibiting this habit in our
public reference libraries? How many beautiful books have been spoilt by
it!

[Footnote 441: The joys of Travel are also hymned in the Tale of Ala-al-Din.
Lib. Ed., iii., 167.]

[Footnote 442: Cf. Seneca on Anger, Ch. xi. "Such a man," we cry, "has done me
a shrewd turn, and I never did him any hurt! Well, but it may be I have
mischieved other people."

[Footnote 443: Payne's Version. See Burton's Footnote, and Payne vol. i., p.
93.]

[Footnote 444: Burton's A. N. i., 237; Lib. Ed., i., 218. Payne translates it:

If thou demand fair play of Fate, therein thou dost it wrong; and blame
it not, for 'twas not made, indeed, for equity.
Take what lies ready to thy hand and lay concern aside, for troubled
days and days of peace in life must surely be.]

[Footnote 445: Burton's A. N., ii., 1; Lib. Ed., i., 329; Payne's A. N., i.,
319.]

[Footnote 446: Payne has--"Where are not the old Chosroes, tyrants of a bygone
day? Wealth they gathered, but their treasures and themselves have
passed away." Vol. i., p. 359.]

[Footnote 447: To distinguish it from date honey--the drippings from ripe
dates.]

[Footnote 448: Ja'afar the Barmecide and the Beanseller.]

[Footnote 449: Burton's A. N., v., 189; Lib. Ed., iv., 144; Payne's A. N.,
iv., 324.]

[Footnote 450: Burton's A. N., vi., 213; Lib. Ed., v., 121; Payne's A. N.,
vi., 1.]

[Footnote 451: Burton's A. N., ix., 304; Lib. Ed., vii., 364; Payne's A. N.,
ix., 145.]

[Footnote 452: Burton's A. N., ix., 134; Lib. Ed., viii., 208; Payne's A. N.,
viii., 297.]

[Footnote 453: Burton's A. N., ix., 165; Lib. Ed., vii., 237; Payne's A. N.,
viii., 330.]

[Footnote 454: Burton's