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After nearly a century had elapsed, Dr. Jonathan Scott (LL.D.

H.E.I.C.'s S., Persian Secretary to the G. G. Bengal; Oriental

Professor, etc., etc.), printed his "Tales, Anecdotes, and

Letters, translated from the Arabic and Persian," (Cadell and

Davies, London, A.D. 1800); and followed in 1811 with an edition

of "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" from the MS. of Edward

Wortley Montague (in 6 vols., small 8vo, London: Longmans, etc.).

This work he (and he only) describes as "Carefully revised and

occasionally corrected from the Arabic." The reading public did

not wholly reject it, sundry texts were founded upon the Scott

version and it has been imperfectly reprinted (4 vole., 8vo,

Nimmo and Bain, London, 1883). But most men, little recking what

a small portion of the original they were reading, satisfied

themselves with the Anglo French epitome and metaphrase. At

length in 1838, Mr.