AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Arabian Literature.

The Divans of the six ancient Arabic poets Ennābiga, ’Antara, Tharafa, Zuhair, ’Alqama and Imruulqais; chiefly according to the MSS. of Paris, Gotha, and Leyden; and the Collection of their Fragments with a List of the various Readings of the text. Edited by W. Ahîwardt. London: Trübner & Co., 1870.

Arabian Poetry for English Readers. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by W. A. Clouston. Glasgow: privately printed, 1881.

The Mufaḍḍalīyāt; an anthology of ancient Arabian odes, compiled by Al-Mufaḍḍal son of Muhammad, according to the recension and with the commentary of Abû Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Al-Anbārī. Edited for the first time by Charles James Lyall, M. A. Oxford.

Arabic Text (1921).

Vol. II: Translation and Notes (1918).

Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry, chiefly pre-Islamic. With an introduction and notes by Charles James Lyall. London: Williams & Norgate, 1930.

The Chronology of Ancient Nations. An English version of the Arabic text of the Athâr-ul-Bâkiya of Albîrûnî, or “Vestiges of the past,” collected and reduced to writing by the author in A.H. 390–1, A.D. 1000. London: Published for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain & Ireland by W. H. Allen & Co., 1879.

The History of the Temple of Jerusalem: translated from the Arabic ms. of the Imám Jalal-Addín al Síútí. With notes and dissertations. By the Rev. James Reynolds, B.A. London: Oriental Translation Fund, 1836.

The Table-Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge. Translated from the original Arabic by D. S. Margoliouth. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1922.

A Literary History of the Arabs. By Reynold A. Nicholson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907.

The Arabian Nights.

The Arabian Nights. in four volumes. translated by Edward Forster. The fourth edition. London: William Miller, 1815.

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The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Translated from the Arabic. A new and complete edition. With upwards of an hundred illustrations on wood drawn by S. J. Groves.

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. With over one hundred illustrations and decorations by Louis Rhead. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. —The illustrations are exceptionally good, though they are cheaply printed.
Another copy.

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Nigh. By Richard F. Burton. Printed by the Burton Club for private subscribers only. [1900.]

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Vol. X.

Supplemental Nights to the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. By Richard F. Burton.

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The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night: Now first completely done into English prose and verse, from the original Arabic, by John Payne… London: Printed for subscribers only, 1901.

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Vol. IX.