Chapter XI: Appendix: B. I

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

_A list of the more important oriental tales published in English during the period under consideration. The order of arrangement is determined by the date of the earliest edition extant. The works of each author are grouped under his name. Editions given immediately after the titles are first editions unless otherwise stated. Editions starred are those referred to in the text or notes._

_Abbreviations_: Sp. = _Spectator_; Gu. = _Guardian_; Fr. =
_Freeholder_; Ra. = _Rambler_; Adv. = _Adventurer_; Wo. = _World_;
Con. = _Connoisseur_; Ba. = _Babler_; Id. = _Idler_; Mir. = _Mirror_;
Obs. = _Observer_; tr. = _translated_.

1. 1687. =Marana, Giovanni Paolo.= _Letters writ by a Turkish Spy, who
liv’d five and forty years ... at Paris: giving an Account ... of
the most remarkable transactions of Europe ... from 1637 to 1682_
[tr. from French, by W. Bradshaw, and edited by Robert Midgley,
M.D.], 8 vols., London, 1687–1693. Twenty-second edition, 1734; ...
edition, *1748; twenty-sixth edition, 1770.

2. 1700, =Brown, Thomas=. _Amusements Serious and Comical Calculated
for the Meridian of London_, separately published in 1700; and also
in the _Works of Thomas Brown, in three volumes, with a Character of
the author by James Drake, M.D._, *1707–1708. Cf. the four volumes
in the Boston Athenæum; (_a_) the title-page of the first volume
reads, _The Works of Thomas Brown, Serious, Moral, Comical and
Satyrical In Four Volumes, containing Amusements_ [then follows
table of contents of all four volumes]. _To which is prefixed a
Character of Mr. Brown and his Writings, by James Drake, M.D. The
Fourth edition, Corrected, with large Additions, and a Supplement_,
London. Printed for Samuel Briscoe, 1715; (_b_) the title-page of
the third volume reads, _The Third Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho.
Brown, Being Amusements, Serious and Comical, Calculated for the
Meridian of London. Letters Serious and Comical to Gentlemen and
Ladies. Æneas Sylvius’s Letters in English. A Walk around London and
Westminster, Exposing the Vices and Follies of the Town. The
Dispensary, a Farce. The London and Lacedemonian Oracles. The Third
Edition, with large Additions._ London, Printed for Sam. Briscoe,
and sold by J. Morphew near Stationers’ Hall,* 171-[date imperfect,
conjecture: 1711]. In the last-named volume, “_A Walk around London
and ... the Town_,” p. 244, is entitled also, _The Second Part of
the Amusements Serious and Comical_.

3. 1700. =[Avery, John]=?

(_a_) _The Life and Adventures of Captain John Avery ... now in
possession of Madagascar written by a person who made his escape
from thence_, 1700.

(_b_) _The King of the Pirates, being an account of the Famous
Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar, with
His Rambles and Piracies, wherein all the Sham Accounts formerly
publish’d of him, are detected. In two Letters from Himself: one
during his Stay at Madagascar and one since his Escape from
thence_, London, 1720. [According to J. K. Langton in _Dict.
Nat. Biog._ article, “John Avery,” (_b_) has been attributed to
Defoe, and both (_a_) and (_b_) are “fiction, with scarcely a
substratum of fact”].

4. Between 1704 and 1712. _Arabian Nights Entertainments: consisting
of One Thousand and One Stories, told by the Sultaness of the
Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody vow ...,
containing a better account of the Customs, Manners, and Religion of
the Eastern Nations, viz.: Tartars, Persians and Indians, than is to
be met with [in] any Author hitherto published. Translated into
French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland, ... and now done into
English from the third Edition in French...._ The fourth Edition,
London, Printed for Andrew Bell, In 12 [vols. 1–6], *1713–1715.
First edition, date unknown; second edition, *1712; edition called
the fourteenth edition, London, *1778, 4 vols. [= “the oldest
edition which I have seen containing the latter half of Galland’s
version.” W. F. Kirby in App. II., p. 467, Vol. X., of Burton’s
_Arabian Nights_, Benares, 1884].

5. 1705. =Defoe, Daniel.=

(_a_) _The Consolidator: or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from
the World in the Moon, Translated from the Lunar Language. By
the Author of the True-Born Englishman_, London, ... *1705.

(_b_) _The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe_, London, *1719.

(_c_) _A System of Magic_, London, *1726.

6. 1707. _Arimant and Tamira; an eastern tale_ [in verse] _In the
manner of Dryden’s fables; By a gentleman of Cambridge_. London,
1707.

7. 1708. _Turkish Tales; consisting of several Extraordinary
Adventures: with the History of the Sultaness of Persia and the
viziers. Written Originally in the Turkish Language by Chec Zade,
for the use of Amurath II., and now done into English._ London ...
Jacob Tonson, *1768. Cf. also No. 15 (_b_) below: 1714, _Persian and
Turkish Tales compleat_.

8. 1708. =Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail.= _The Improvement of Human Reason,
exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan; Written in Arabick above
500 years ago, by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail.... Translated by Simon
Ockley_ ..., London ... *1708; another edition, 1711. The first
English version was published in 1674, anonymously, with the title
“_An Account of the Oriental Philosophy ... [etc.]_.” Cf. _Brit.
Mus. Catalogue_ under “Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail,” and _Dict. Nat.
Biog._ under “Geo. Ashwell” (1612–1695). Cf. for full title of
Ockley’s translation, pp. 126, 127, _ante_.

9. (1710?). =Ali Mohammed Hadji= (_pseud._). _A brief and merry
History of Great Britain, containing an account of the religion,
customs ... etc. of the people, written originally in Arabick by Ali
Mohammed Hadji.... Faithfully rendered into English by A. Hillier_,
London (1710?). Another edition, *1730.

10. 1711. =Bidpai.= Principal eighteenth-century versions. (1) _Æsop
Naturalized, in a collection of fables and stories from Æsop ...
Pilpay and others ..._ London, *1711; another edition, 1771; (2)
_The Instructive and Entertaining Fables of Pilpay, an ancient
Indian Philosopher, containing a number of excellent rules for the
conduct of persons of all ages._ London, 1743. [This is a
reproduction of the 1679 version, “_Made for the Duke of
Gloucester_.”] Other editions, 1747, 1754; fifth edition, 1775;
sixth edition, 1789. Cf. Chauvin, _Bibliographie_, II., pp. 33, 40,
70, and Table opposite p. 1. The earliest English version of Bidpai
is Sir Thomas North’s _Morall Philosophie of Doni ..._ 1570.

11. 1711. =Addison, Joseph.=

[_Sp._ No. 50, April 27, 1711. _Observations by four Indian
Kings._]

_Sp._ No. 94, June 18, 1711. (1) _Mahomet’s journey to the seven
heavens._ (2) _The adventures of the Sultan of Egypt._

_Sp._ No. 159, Sept. 1, 1711. _The Vision of Mirza._

_Sp._ No. 195, Oct. 13, 1711. _Story of sick king cured by
exercise with drugged mallet._

[_Sp._ No. 237, Dec. 1, 1711. _Jewish tradition concerning
Moses._]

_Sp._ No. 289, Jan. 31, 1711–1712. _Story of the dervish who
mistakes a palace for an inn._

_Sp._ No. 293, Feb. 5, 1711–1712. _Persian fable of drop of water
which became a pearl._

_Sp._ No. 343, April 3, 1712. _Story of Pug the monkey._

_Sp._ No. 349, April 10, 1712. _Story of courageous Muli Moluc,
Emperor of Morocco._

_Sp._ No. 511, Oct. 16, 1712. (1) _Persian marriage-auction._ (2)
_Merchant who purchased old woman in a sack._

_Sp._ No. 512, Oct. 17, 1712. _Story of Sultan Mahmoud and his
vizier._

_Sp._ No. 535, Nov. 13, 1712. _Story of Alnaschar._

_Gu._ No. 99, July 4, 1713. _Persian story of just sultan._

_Gu._ No. 167, Sept. 22, 1713. _Story of Helim and Abdallah._

_Sp._ No. 557, June 21, 1714. _Letter to the King of Bantam._

_Sp._ Nos. 584 and 585, Aug. 23 and 25, 1714. _Story of Hilpa,
Harpath, and Shalum._

_Fr._ No. 17, Feb. 17, 1716. _Persian Emperor’s riddle._

12. 1712. =Unknown Contributors to Guardian and Spectator.=

_Gu._ No. 162, Sept. 16, 1712. _Story of Schacabac and the
Barmecide._

_Sp._ No. 578, Aug. 9, 1714. _Story of Fadlallah and Zemroude._

_Sp._ No. 587, Aug. 30, 1714. _Story of Mahomet, Gabriel, and the
black drop of sin._

_Sp._ No. 604, Oct. 8, 1714. _Vision at Grand Cairo._

_Sp._ No. 631, Dec. 10, 1714. _Story of the dervise who forgot to
wash his hands._

13. 1713. =Pope, Alexander.=

_Gu._ No. 61, May 21, 1713. _Fable of the traveller and the
adder._

14. 1712. =Steele, Sir Richard.=

_Sp._ No. 545, Nov. 25, 1712. _Letter from the Emperor of China to
the Pope._

_Gu._ No. 148, Aug. 31, 1713. _Story of the Santon Barsisa._

15. 1714. _Persian Tales._

(_a_) _The Thousand and One Days, Persian Tales. Translated from
the French by Mr. Ambrose Philips._ London, *1714–1715. [Cf.
Chauvin, _Bibliographie_, IV., pp. 123–127.] Third edition,
1722; fifth, 1738; sixth, 1750; *seventh, 1765; other editions,
1781, 1783.

(_b_) _The Persian and the Turkish Tales compleat_ [sic]
_Translated formerly from those languages into French_ [or
rather compiled] _by M. Pétis de la Croix ..._ [assisted by A.
R. Le Sage] _and now into Englsh_ [sic] _from that translation
by ... Dr. King, and several other hands. To which are added;
Two letters from a French Abbot to his friend at Paris, giving
an account of the island of Madagascar; and of the French
Embassador’s reception by the King of Siam._ London, *1714.

(_c_) Cf. Edward Button, _A New Translation of the Persian Tales_,
London, 1754; and the anonymous _Persian Tales designed for use
and entertainment_, *Coburg, 1779–1781.

16. 1717. =Kora Selyn Oglan= (_pseud._). _The Conduct of Christians
made the sport of Infidels in a letter from a Turkish merchant at
Amsterdam to the Grand Mufti at Constantinople on occasion of ...
the late scandalous quarrel among the clergy_, *1717.

17. 1720. =Brémond, G. De.= _The Beautiful Turk, Translated from the
French original, Printed in the Year 1720._ [London.] This is
another translation of the French tale by G. de Brémond translated
“by B. B.” as _Hattige or the amours of the King of Tamaran_,
published in Amsterdam, 1680; and also in Vol. I., *1679 or 1683(?)
in R. Bentley’s _Modern Novels_.

18. 1722. (Dec. 11, 1721.) =Parnell, Thomas.= _The Hermit_, printed
posthumously in _Poems on Several Occasions.—Written by Dr. Thomas
Parnell, late Arch-Deacon of Clogher: and published by Mr. Pope._
London, *1722 (Dec. 11, 1721). For numerous volumes containing this
poem, see _Brit. Mus. Catalogue_.

19. 1722. =Aubin, Mrs. Penelope.= _The Noble Slaves, or the Lives and
Adventures of Two Lords and Two Ladies_ (in Aubin’s _Histories and
Novels_), London, *1722. Another edition, Dublin, (1730); also in
Mrs. E. Griffith’s collection, 1777.

20. 1722. =Mailly= [or =Mailli=], =Chevalier de=. _The Travels and
Adventures of three princes of Sarendip. Intermixed with eight
delightful and entertaining novels, translated from the Persian_ [or
rather the Italian of Chr. Armeno] _into French, an_ [sic] _from
thence done into English_. London, *1722.

21. 1725. =Segrais, J. Regnauld de.= _Bajazet or The Imprudent
Favorite_, in _Five Novels Translated from the French_. London,
*1725.

22. 1725. =Gueullette, Thomas Simon.=

(_a_) _Chinese Tales, or the wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin
Fum-Hoam translated from the French_ [of T. S. Gueullette].
London, 1725. Another translation, _Chinese Tales ...
Fum-Hoam ... translated by the Rev. Mr. Stackhouse_, London,
n.d. (Cook’s pocket edition of select novels). Another edition,
*1781.

(_b_) _Mogul Tales ... Now first translated into English ... With
a prefatory discourse on the usefulness of Romances._ London,
*1736. Second edition, 1743.

(_c_) _Tartarian Tales, or a thousand and one Quarters of Hours,
Written in French by the celebrated Mr. Guelletee_ [sic] _Author
of the Chinese, Mogul and other Tales. The whole now for the
first time translated into English by Thomas Flloyd._ London,
printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, *1759. Another
edition, Dublin, printed for Wm. Williamson, Bookseller, at
Mæcenas’s Head, Bride St., 1764; another edition, London, 1785;
printed in the _Novelist’s Magazine_, 1785.

(_d_) _Peruvian Tales related in one thousand and one hours, by
one of the select virgins of Cuzco to the Ynca of Peru ...
Translated from the original French by S. Humphreys (continued
by J. Kelly)._ Fourth edition. London, 1764. Another edition,
1786.

23. 1729. =Bignon, Jean Paul.= _Adventures of Abdalla, Son of Hanif,
sent by the Sultan of the Indies to make a Discovery of the island
of Borico ... translated into French from an Arabick manuscript ...
by Mr. de Sandisson_ [_pseud._] _... done into English by William
Hatchett...._ London, *1729. Second edition, *1730.

24. 1730. =Montesquieu, C. de Secondat, Baron de.= _Persian Letters
Translated by Mr. Ozell._ London, *1730. Third edition, 1731; sixth
edition, anon., Edinburgh, *1773.

25. 1730. =Gomez, Mme. Madeleine Angelique (Poisson) de.= _Persian
Anecdotes; or, Secret memoirs of the Court of Persia. Written
originally in French, for the Entertainment of the King, by the
celebrated Madame de Gomez, Author of La Belle Assemblée. Translated
by Paul Chamberlain, Gent._ London *1730. The title in the _British
Museum Catalogue_ reads, “_The Persian Anecdotes ... Persia,
containing the history of those two illustrious heroes,
Sophy-Ismael, surnamed the Great, and Tor, King of Ormus, etc._
[Translated from the French by P. Chamberlen.] London, 1730.”

26. 1731. [=Boles, W.?=] _Milk for Babes, Meat for Strong Men and Wine
for Petitioners, Being a Comical, Sarcastical, Theological Account
of a late Election at Bagdad, for Cailiff of that City. Faithfully
Translated from the Arabick, and Collated with the most Authentic
Original Manuscripts. By the Great, Learned and Most Ingenious
Alexander the Copper Smith...._ Second edition, Cork, *1731.

27. 1733. [=D’Orville, Adrien de la Vieuville.=] _The Adventures of
Prince Jakaya or the Triumph of Love over Ambition, being Secret
Memoirs of the Ottoman Court. Translated from the Original
French...._ London, *1733.

28. 1735. =Lyttelton, George=, First Baron (1709–1773). _Letters from
a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan._ London, *1735. Fifth
edition, 1774; printed also in Harrison’s _British Classicks_,
London, *1787–1793. Vol. I.; and in numerous editions of Lyttelton’s
_Works_. See _Brit. Mus. Catalogue_.

29. 1735. =Crébillon, C. P. Jolyot de.=

(_a_) _The Skimmer, or the history of Tanzai and Neardarné (a
Japanese tale), tr. from the French._—1735. Another edition,
1778.

(_b_) _The Sopha, a moral tale, tr. from the French_ (a new
edition).... London, 1781.

30. 1736. _The Persian Letters, continued._ Third edition, London,
*1736 [“erroneously ascribed to Lord Lyttelton,” _Dict. Nat.
Biog._].

31. 1739. =Boyer (Jean Baptiste de) Marquis d’Argens.= _Chinese
Letters; being a philosophical, historical, and critical
correspondence between a Chinese Traveler at Paris and his
countrymen in China, Muscovy, Persia, and Japan. Translated ...
into_ [or rather written in] _French by the Marquis d’Argens; and
now done into English...._ London, *1741.

32. (17-?). =Bougeant, G. H.= _The Wonderful Travels of Prince
Fan-Feredin, Translated from the French_ [of G. H. Bougeant, *1735],
Northampton, n.d. For full title, cf. p. 213, _ante_.

33. 1741. =Haywood, Mrs. Eliza.= _The Unfortunate Princess, or the
Ambitious Statesman, containing the Life and surprizing_ [sic]
_Adventures of the Princess of Ijaveo [Ijaves], Interspers’d with
several curious and entertaining Novels_. London, *1741.

34. 1742. =Collins, William.= _Persian Eclogues, Written originally
for the entertainment of the Ladies of Tauris and now translated_,
*1742; reprinted *1757 as _Oriental Eclogues_.

35. 1744. _The Lady’s Drawing Room ... interspersed with entertaining
and affecting Novels._ London, *1744 [contains _The History of
Rodomond and the Beautiful Indian_, and _The History of Henrietta de
Bellgrave_].

36. 1745. =Caylus, A. C. P. de Tubières, Comte de.= _Oriental Tales,
collected from an Arabian Manuscript in the Library of the King of
France...._ London, *1745. Another edition (1750?).

37. 1745. =Vieux-maisons, Mme. de= _or_ =Pecquet, A. (?)=. _The
Perseis, or secret memoirs for a History of Persia_ [a political
satire], _translated from the French with a key...._ London, *1745.
Another edition, 1765.

38. 1748. =Graffigny, F. Huguet de.= _Letters written by a Peruvian
Princess, translated from the French_ [of F. Huguet de Graffigny].
London, 1748. Another edition, Dublin, *1748. Another translation,
_The Peruvian Letters, translated from the French, with an
additional original volume by R. Roberts_. London, 1774.

39. 1749. =Voltaire, F. M. Arouet de.=

1749. (_a_) _Zadig, or the Book of Fate, an Oriental History,
translated from the French original of M. Voltaire_, London,
printed for John Brindley, etc., *1749. A version by F. Ashmore,
London, 1780; another edition, 1794. Also in (1) _The Works of
M. de Voltaire Translated from the French with Notes, Historical
and Critical. By T. Smollett, M.D., T. Francklin, M.A., and
others_, Vols. I.–XXV., London ... 1761–1765; Vol. XI., ...
London ... 1762; in (2) _The Works of M. de Voltaire. Translated
from the French with Notes, Historical, critical and
Explanatory. By T. Francklin, D.D., Chaplain to his Majesty, and
late Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge, T.
Smollett, M.D., and others._ A new edition, 38 vols.,
1778–1761–1781, Vol. XI. ... London ... 1779; and in (3)
_Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. de Voltaire_, Vol.
I., ... London.... 1794.

1754. (_b_) _Babouc or the World as it goes. By ... Voltaire. To
which are added letters, etc._ London, *1754. Also in (1)
_Works_, Vol. XI., 1762; in (2) _Works_ (new edition), Vol. XI.,
1779; and in (3) _Romances_, 1794, all cited above under
_Zadig_.

1762. (_c_) _A Letter from a Turk concerning the Faquirs, and his
Friend Bababec_, in (1) _Works_, Vol. XIII., 1762 (?); in (2)
_Works_, new edition, Vol. XIII., 1779; and in (3) _Romances_,
1794, all cited above under _Zadig_.

1762. (_d_) _History of the Travels of Scarmentado. Written by
himself_, in (1) _Works_, Vol. XII., *1762 (?); in (2) _Works_,
new edition, Vol. XII., 1779; and in (3) _Romances_, 1794, all
cited above under _Zadig_.

1762. (_e_) _Memnon; or Human Wisdom._ [_Memnon the Philosopher_]
in (1) _Works_, Vol. XIII., *1762 (?); in (2) _Works_, new
edition, Vol. XIII., 1779; and in (3) _Romances_, 1794, all
cited above under _Zadig_.

1763. (_f_) _History of a Good Bramin_ in (1) _Works_, Vol. XXVI.,
*1763; and in (2) _Works_, new edition, Vol. XIX., 1780, both
cited above under _Zadig_. Also printed separately as follows:
_The History of a Good Bramin to which is annexed an essay on
the reciprocal contempt of nations proceeding from their
vanity._ London, 1795 [no author or translator given].

1765. (_g_) _The Black and the White_, in (1) _Works_, Vol. XXV.,
*1765; and in (3) _Romances_, 1794, both cited above under
_Zadig_.

1769. (_h_) _The Princess of Babylon._ London, *1769. Also in (1)
_Works ..._ Vol. XXV., 1770; and in (3) _Romances_, 1794, both
cited above under _Zadig_.

1774. (_i_) _The White Bull_ [tr. by J. Bentham], *1774. Also in
(3) _Romances_, 1794, cited above under _Zadig_.

1774. (_j_) _The Hermit, an Oriental Tale. Newly translated from
the French of M. de Voltaire_ [being a chapter of _Zadig_],
1774.

[_N.B._—Apparently Voltaire’s oriental sketches: _André des Touches at
Siam_, _A Conversation with a Chinese_, and _An Adventure in India_,
as well as the _Letters of Amabed_, were not translated into English
in the eighteenth century.]

40. 1750. =Johnson, Samuel.=

_Ra._ No. 38, July 28, 1750. _Hamet and Raschid._

_Ra._ No. 65, Oct. 1750. _Obidah, the son of Abensima, and the
Hermit._

_Ra._ No. 120, May 11, 1751. _Nouradin the Merchant and his son
Almamoulin._

_Ra._ No. 190, Jan. 11, 1752. _Morad the son of Hanuth and his son
Abonzaid._

_Ra._ Nos. 204, 205, Feb. 29, March 3, 1752. _Seged, Lord of
Ethiopia._

1759. _The Prince of Abissinia_ [sic], _a Tale_ [= _Rasselas_].
London, 1759. Second edition, 1759; another edition, Dublin,
1759; ... ninth edition, 1793.

_Id._ No. 75, Sept. 22, 1759. _Gelalledin._

_Id._ No. 99, March 8, 1760. _Ortogrul of Basra._

_Id._ No. 101, March 22, 1760. _Omar, Son of Hassan._

41. 1750? _The History of Abdallah and Zoraide, or Filial and Paternal
Love.... To which is added The Maiden Tower or a Description of an
Eastern Cave, Together with Contentment, a Fable._ London *(1750?).

42. 1752. =Hawkesworth, John.=

_Adv._ No. 5, Nov. 21, 1752. _The Transmigrations of a Soul._

_Adv._ Nos. 20, 21, 22, Jan. 13, 16, 20, 1753. _The Ring of
Amurath._

_Adv._ No. 32, Feb. 24, 1753. _Omar the Hermit and Hassan._

_Adv._ No. 72, July 14, 1753. _The Story of Amana and Nouraddin._

_Adv._ No. 76, July 28, 1753. _The Story of Bozaldab._

_Adv._ No. 91, Sept. 18, 1753. _Yamodin and Tamira._

_Adv._ No. 114, Dec. 8, 1753. _Almet the Dervise._

_Adv._ No. 132, Feb. 9, 1754. _Carazan._

1761. _Almoran and Hamet: an Oriental Tale._ London, 1761, 2 vols.
Second edition, London, 1761; another edition, 1780; another,
London (1794?).

43. 1753. =Moore, E.=

_Wo._ No. 40, Oct. 4, 1753. _Prince Ruzvanchad and the princess
Cheheristany, The Infelicities of Marriage._

44. 1754. =Cambridge, Richard Owen.=

(_a_) _Wo._ No. 72, May 16, 1754. _Princess Parizade._

(_b_) _The Fakeer, a Tale_ [in verse], —— 1756.

45. 1754. =Colman and Thornton.=

_Con._ No. 21, June 20, 1754. _Story of Tquassaouw and
Knonmquaiha._

46. 1754. =Le Camus, A.= _Abdeker, or the art of preserving beauty.
Translated from an Arabic manuscript_ [or rather from the French of
A. Le Camus]. London, *1754. Another edition, Dublin, 1756.

47. 1754. =Murphy, Arthur, Esq.= _Works of A. Murphy_ in 7 volumes.
London, 1786. Vol. VI. contains the _Gray’s Inn Journal_, in No. 64
of which, Jan. 5, 1754, is a tale (entitled, _Aboulcasem of
Bagdad_), said to be by “my friend Capt. Gulliver.”

48. 1755. =Transmarine, Mr.= [_pseud._]. _The Life and surprizing_
[sic] _Adventures of Friga Reveep ... Written in French by himself
and translated into English by Mr. Transmarine_, *1755. For full
title, cf. pp. 48, 49, _ante_.

49. 1757. =Walpole, Horace.=

(_a_) _A Letter from Xo-Ho, a Chinese Philosopher at London to his
friend Lien Chi at Peking_, *1757.

(_b_) _Hieroglyphic Tales._ Strawberry Hill, *1785.

50. 1760. =Goldsmith, Oliver.=

(_a_) _The Citizen of the World_, first printed in form of
bi-weekly letters in Newbery’s _Public Ledger_ beginning Jan.
24, 1760. First edition, London, *1762. 2 vols. Other editions,
1769, 1774, 1796.

(1765). (_b_) _Asem, an Eastern Tale: or a vindication of the
wisdom of Providence in the moral government of the world_
*(1765 or 1759?). Cf. footnote to p. 125, _ante_.

51. 1760. =Hamilton, Antoine, Count.=

1760. (_a_) _The History of the Thorn-Flower_ [= _May-Flower_], in
(1) _Select Tales of Count Hamilton, Author of the Life and
Memoirs of the Count de Grammont, Translated from the French_.
In two volumes. Vol. I., London ... 1760; and (2) _History of
May-Flower, A Circassian Tale_, second edition ... Salisbury ...
London, 1796.

(_b_) _The Ram_, in (1) 1760, cited above under _The History of
the Thorn-Flower_.

(_c_) _The History of the Four Facardins_, in Vol. II. of (1),
1760, cited above under _The History of the Thorn-Flower_.

52. 1762. =Langhorne, John.= _Solyman and Almena._ Probably *1762.
Second edition, London, 1764; also edition in 1781; and one in East
Windsor, Connecticut, 1799.

53. 1764. =Ridley, James=, Rev., Chaplain to the East India Company
[_Morell, Sir C._ = _pseud._]. _Tales of the Genii; or ...
Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar ... tr. from the
Persian Manuscript by Sir C. Morell_, 1764. 2 vols. Also editions
1780, *1785, *1794.

54. 1764. =Marmontel, J. F.=

1764. (_a_) _Soliman II._ in (1) _Moral Tales by M. Marmontel_,
*1764–1766 (?). Vol. I.... London ... *1764; in (2) _Moral
Tales, by M. Marmontel. In three Volumes._ Vol. I., Edinburgh,
1768; in (3) _Moral Tales, by M. Marmontel Translated from the
French, by C. Dennis and R. Lloyd. In three Volumes._ Vol. I.,
London ... 1781; in (4) another edition of (3) Vol. I.,
Manchester ... [1790 (?)]; in (5) _Moral Tales by M. Marmontel.
Translated from the French. In two Volumes._ Vol. I. Cooke’s
edition ... London ... (1795); and in (6) _Moral Tales by M.
Marmontel._ Vol. I. A new edition ... London ... 1800.

1766 (?). (_b_) _Friendship put to the Test_ in (1) Vol. III.
*(1766?) of (1) cited above under _Soliman II._; in (2) Vol.
III. (1768) of (2) cited above under _Soliman II._; in (3) Vol.
III., 1781, of (3) cited above under _Soliman II._; in (4) =
(4), (1790?), cited above under _Soliman II._; in (5) = (5),
(1795), cited above under _Soliman II._; in (6) _Marmontel’s
Tales, Selected and abridged for the Instruction and Amusement
of Youth, by Mrs. Pilkington ..._ London ... 1799; and in (7) =
(6), 1800, cited above under _Soliman II._

1799. (_c_) _The Watermen of Besons_, in (6) cited above under
_Friendship put to the Test_.

55. 1767. [=Kelly, Hugh.=]

_Ba._ June 18, [1767]. _Orasmin and Elmira, an Oriental Tale._
Also printed in Harrison’s _British Classicks_, Vol. VI.,
London, *1794.

56. 1767. =Sterne, Laurence.= _The Bramine’s Journal._ Written 1767,
unpublished Ms. in the Additional Ms. 34,527, in British Museum.

57. 1767. [=Sheridan, Mrs. Frances (Chamberlaine).=] _The History of
Nourjahad. By the editor of Sidney Biddulph_; Dublin, *1767. Other
editions, London, 1788, and 1792.

58. 1769. =Smollett, Tobias G.=

1769. (_a_) _The History and Adventures of an Atom by Nathaniel
Peacock_ [_i.e._ T. Smollett]. London, 2 vols., *1749 [1769].
Tenth edition, London, 2 vols., 1778; Edinburgh, 1784; London,
1786.

1773. (_b_) _The Orientalist: A Volume of Tales after the Eastern
Taste. By the Author of Roderick Random, Sir Lancelot Greaves,
&c., and others...._ Dublin, *1773.

59. 1769. =Musgrave, Sir W.= _The Female Captive_ [_i.e._ Mrs. Crisp]
_a narrative of Facts which happened in Barbary in 1756 written by
herself_. London, *1769, 2 vols.

60. 1769. =D’Alenzon Mons.= _The Bonze or Chinese Anchorite, an
Oriental Epic Novel Translated from the Mandarine Language of
Hoamchi-vam, a Tartarian Proselite, by Mons. D’Alenzon...._ London,
*1769, 2 vols. [also 1770?]. Cf., for full title, p. 126, n. 1,
_ante_.

61. 1770. =Chatterton, Thomas.=

(_a_) _Narva and Mored, an African Eclogue_, first printed in
_London Magazine_, May, *1770; and reprinted in the
_Miscellanies_, *1778.

(_b_) _The Death of Nicou, an African Eclogue_, first printed in
_London Magazine_, June, *1770; and reprinted in the
_Miscellanies_, *1778.

(_c_) _Heccar and Gaira, an African Eclogue_, printed in the
_Supplement to the Miscellanies_, *1784; (written Jan. 1770).

62. 1774. =Vaucluse, Mad^e Fauques= [or =Falques=] =de=. _The Vizirs,
or the Enchanted Labyrinth, an Oriental Tale._ London, *1774, 3
vols.

63. 1774. =Johnstone, Charles.=

(_a_) _The History of Arsaces, Prince of Betlis, by the editor of
Chrysal._ London, *1774.

(_b_) _The Pilgrim, or a Picture of Life, in a series of letters
written mostly from London by a Chinese philosopher to his
friend at Quang-Tong, containing remarks upon the Laws, Customs
and Manners of the English and other Nations...._ London
*[1775], 2 vols. Other editions, London, 1775; Dublin, 1775.

64. 1776. =Irwin, Eyles.=

(_a_) _Bedukah, or the Self-Devoted. An Indian Pastoral. By the
Author of Saint Thomas’s Mount...._ London ... *1776.

(_b_) _Eastern Eclogues; Written during a Tour through Arabia,
Egypt, and other parts of Asia and Africa, In the Year
1777, ..._ London, ... *1780. [Contents: _Eclogue_ I. _Alexis:
or The Traveller._ Scene: The Ruins of Alexandria. Time:
Morning.... _Eclogue_ II. _Selima, or the Fair Greek._ Scene: A
Seraglio in Arabia Felix. Time: Noon.... _Eclogue_ III. _Ramah;
or the Bramin._ Scene: The Pagoda of Conjeveram. Time:
Evening.... _Eclogue_ IV. _The Escape, or, the Captives._ Scene:
The Suburbs of Tunis. Time: Night....]

65. 1779. =Richardson, Mr.= “Professor of Humanity at Glasgow.”

_Mir._ No. 8, Feb. 20, 1779. _The Story of the Dervise’s Mirror._

66. (178-?) =Moir, The Rev. J.= _Gleanings, or Fugitive Pieces_,
London *(178-?), [contains _Hassan_].

67. 1782. =Scott, John= (d. 1783). _Oriental Eclogues_ in volume
entitled _The Poetical Works of John Scott_, London, *1782. [The
_Arabian Eclogue_ in this collection was written by 1777.]

68. 1782. =Scott, Helenus, M.D.= _The Adventures of a Rupee wherein
are interspersed ... anecdotes Asiatic and European._ London, *1782.

69. 1783. =Chilcot, Harriet= (afterward =Mezière=). _Ormar and Zabria;
or the Parting Lovers, an Oriental Eclogue_, in volume entitled
_Elmar and Ethlinda, a Legendary Tale and Adalba and Ahmora, an
Indian_ [= Peruvian] _Tale: with other pieces ..._ London ... 1783.

70. 1785. =Reeve, Clara.= _The Progress of Romance, through Times,
Countries and Manners, with Remarks on the good and bad effects of
it, on them respectively, in a course of evening conversations. By
C. R., author of the English Baron, The Two Mentors, etc...._
Dublin, *1785 [contains _The History of Charoba_, extracted from the
_History of Ancient Egypt, Translated by J. Davies_, *1672, _from
the French of Monsieur Vattier, written originally in the Arabian
tongue by Murtadi_. [Cf. Part II. of this Bibliography, No. 48.]
Clara Reeve modernized the language of Davies’s translation
somewhat].

71. (1785?) =Confucius the Sage= (_pseud._). _The Oriental Chronicles
of the times; being the translation of a Chinese manuscript supposed
to have been written by Confucius the Sage_, London *(1785?).

72. (1785?) =Cumberland, Richard.=

_Obs._ No. 14 (1785?), _Abderama_.

73. 1786. =Beckford, William.=

(_a_) _History of the Caliph Vathek._ English, *1786; French,
*1787.

(1) The title-page of the first English edition reads: _An
Arabian tale from an unpublished ms., with notes critical
and explanatory_, London, 1786. On p. v, another title is
given: _The History of the Caliph Vathek, with notes_. The
notes were by the translator, Samuel Henley, D.D.

(2) The book had been written between Jan. 1782 and Jan. 1783,
in French by Beckford, and was published in French by him in
1787, one edition at Lausanne, another at Paris. [Cf. Part
II. of this Bibliography, No. 5, (1), Garnett’s edition.]

(_b_) _The Story of Al Raoui—a tale from the Arabick._ London,
*1799. Given in _Memoirs of Wm. Beckford_ by C. Redding. London,
*1859. Vol. I., p. 217.

74. 1786. _The Baloon, or Aerostatic Spy. A Novel containing a series
of adventures of an aerial traveller_ [contains the _Eastern Tale of
Hamet and Selinda_]. London, *1786. 2 vols.

75. 1787. =Bage, Robert.= _The Fair Syrian (a novel)_, *1787. See _La
Belle Syrienne, Roman en trois parties; par l’auteur du Mont-Henneth
et des Dunes de Barrham. Traduit de l’Anglois ..._ *1788.

76. 1788. _The Disinterested Nabob, a novel interspersed with genuine
descriptions of India, its manners and customs._ London, *1788. 3
vols. [Second edition.]

77. 1789. =Berquin, Arnaud.= _The Blossoms of Morality,—by the Editor
of the Looking-Glass for the Mind._ London, *1789. Also, 1796.

78. (1790?) =Cooper, J.= _The Oriental Moralist or the Beauties of the
Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated from the original_ [_i.e._
from Galland’s French version] _and accompanied with suitable
reflections adapted to each story by the Rev. Mr. Cooper, author of
the History of England, etc._, London *(1790?). Cf. also _The
Beauties of the Arabian Nights Entertainments consisting of the most
entertaining Stories_, London, 1792.

79. 1790. =Knight, Ellis Cornelia.= _Dinarbas, a Tale: being a
continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia_ [_sic_], London,
*1790. Third edition, London, 1793; fourth edition, London, *1800.
Also printed in same volume with S. Johnson’s _Rasselas ..._
Greenfield, Mass., 1795.

80. 1790. =Caraccioli, Louis Antoine de.= _Letters on the Manners of
the French ... written by an Indian at Paris. Translated from the
French by Chas. Shillito._ Colchester, *1790.

81. 1792. [_New Arabian Nights._] _Arabian Tales, or a continuation of
the Arabian Nights Entertainments ... newly tr. from the original
Arabic into French by Dom Chavis ... and M. Cazotte ... and tr. from
the French into English by Robert Heron_, Edinburgh and London,
*1792. 4 vols. Another edition, London, 1794, 3 vols.

82. (1795?) _The Arabian Pirate, or authentic history and fighting
adventures of Tulagee Angria_ [a chapbook], Newcastle.

83. (1795?) _The Trial and Execution of the Grand Mufti, from an
ancient Horsleian manuscript, found in the Cathedral of
Rochester ..._ London *(1795?).

84. 1796. _The Siamese Tales, Being a Collection of Stories told to
the son of the Mandarin Sam-Sib, for the Purpose of Engaging his
mind in the Love of Truth and Virtue, with an historical account of
the Kingdom of Siam. To which is added the Principal Maxims of the
Talapoins. Translated from the Siamese_, London, 1796. Another
edition, Baltimore ... 1797.

85. 1796. [=Mathias, T. J.=] _The Imperial Epistle from Kien Long,
Emperor of China to George III., King of Great Britain in the year
1794. Translated into English from the original Chinese ..._
[pseudo-oriental satire in verse,] London, *1796. Other editions,
1798, 1802; and Philadelphia, 1800.

86. 1796. =Klinger, F. M. von.= _The Caliph of Bagdad, Travels before
the Flood, an Interesting Oriental record of men and manners in the
antediluvian world, interpreted in fourteen evening conversations
between the Caliph of Bagdad and his court, tr. from Arabic_ [=
translated from the German of F. M. von Klinger], London, *1796. Cf.
also No. 93 below, Lewis: _Amorassan_.

87. 1797. =Addison, Mr.= _Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories,
essays and poetical fragments, tending to amuse the fancy and
inculcate morality_, London, *1797. 16 vols.

88. 1799. =Du Bois, Edward.= _The Fairy of Misfortune; or the Loves of
Octar and Zulima, an Eastern Tale Translated from the French by the
Author of a Piece of Family Biography. The Original of the above
Work is supposed to be in the Sanskrit in the Library of the Great
Mogul._ London, *1799.

89. 1800. =Pilkington, Mrs. [Mary P.].=

(_a_) _The Asiatic Princess, a tale._ London, *1800. 2 vols.

(_b_) _A Mirror of the Female Sex. Historical Beauties for Young
Ladies, intended to lead the female mind to the Love and
Practice of Moral Goodness, Designed Principally for the use of
Ladies Schools_: London, *1804. [Third Edition] contains _The
Governor’s wife of Minchew_; _The Princess of Jaskes_; _The
Empress of China_; _Amestris_, _Queen of Persia_; _Inkle_ and
_Yarico_ [West-Indian, not oriental, taken from Addison, _Sp._
No. 11, March 13, 1710–1711].

90. (1800?) =Day, Thomas.= _Moral Tales by Esteemed Writers_ [contains
_The Grateful Turk_], London *(1800?).

91. 1802. =Crookenden, Isaac.= _Romantic Tale. The Revengeful Turk or
Mystic Cavern._ London, *1802.

92. 1804. =Edgeworth, Maria.= _Popular Tales_ [contains _Murad the
Unlucky_]——, 1804; second edition, London, 1805.

93. 1808. =Lewis, Matthew Gregory.= _Romantic Tales._ London, *1808, 4
vols. Contains _The Anaconda, an East Indian Tale_, in Vol. II.;
_The Four Facardins, an Arabian tale_ [in part a translation, and in
part an original continuation by Lewis, of Hamilton’s tale, _Les
Quatre Facardins_] in Vols. II. and III.; and _Amorassan or the
spirit of the frozen ocean, an Oriental Romance_ [in part a close
translation from _Der Faust der Morgenländer_ by F. M. von Klinger]
in Vol. IV.