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Another old favourite in a new dress, perhaps a little

more dis- guised than we might wish, is Far-famed Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. (Hogg.) Still there are readers who will welcome the fishermen, genies, viziers and caliphs, Sindbad, Aladdin, and AU Baba, even though they have lost something of their genuine Oriental aspect.