"aladdin," "all Baba."

Sorne years ago M. Zotenberg corapletely vindicated the literary integrity of Qalland, who was long believed to have himself invented a number of the tales in "Les Mille et Une Nuits, " and deliberately foisted them un tbe public as genuine Arabian compositions. As those tales - "Aladdin, " "AH Baba," "Prince AhmeóV' the "Euvious Sisters," etc. - are among the most fascinatingin tbewholeof that fanious story book, this was certainly paying a very high compliment to the great orientalist's inventiva genius, if it did impugn his honesty. Some candid scholars there were, bowever, who strongly maintained that, though those narratives were not to be fonnd in any Arabic text of "Elf Layla wa Layla," Galland must have taken them dowu from the recitals of professional story tellers in the Levant. Bnt the quostion was finally settled ■when M. Zotenberg discovered them in a manuscript copy of "The Nights, " which had been recently acquired for the natioual library at Paris, and published tho Arabic text of the tale of Aladdin and his lamp, togcther with a monograpb on the authenticity of the tales whioh had been hitherto