13 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 20

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. (Whittaker and Co.) — The Hon. Mrs. Sugden

has "arranged" this edition for the perusal of youthful readers, and it leaves nothing to be desired in point of shape, size, type, and paper. Nor do we object to the removal of the coarser details which occasionally occur. But by what infatuation do these "arrangers" take on themselves to "omit several tales which possess little interest ?" Who made the Hon. Mrs. Sugden a judge of what people like? We warn the unwary off an edition of the Arabian Nights which leaves out the story of the man who was sentenced to be impaled for making cream-tarts without pepper.