The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.: Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

"The portion which is comprised in the first volume of this translation, terminates with part of the hundred and thirty-seventh Night: it is therefore necessary to remark,--first, that there is less to omit in the early part of the original work than in the later:--secondly, that the _Nights_ in the early part are generally much _longer_ than in the subsequent portion; the first hundred Nights (without the Introduction) comprising 213 pages in the Cairo edition of the original work; the second hundred, 149 pages; the third, 107; the fourth, 106; the fifth, 94:[11]--thirdly, that a similar observation applies to the _Notes_ which are inserted in my translation; those appended to the early tales being necessarily much more copious than the others."