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[1] Two other printed editions were also used by Mr. Lane--that
of the first two hundred Nights, printed at Calcutta, and in
consequence of the loss, by shipwreck, of nearly the whole
impression of the first volume, never completed; and that of
Breslau. The former differs much, in matter and manner, from
any other known copy; the latter, which was edited to the close
of the seven hundred and third night by Professor Habicht, and
completed by Professor Fleischer, is far inferior to all the
others. One other edition has appeared in the Arabic, that of
Calcutta, or "the Calcutta edition of the complete work." It
was brought from Cairo, and is apparently (though not
immediately) from the same original as the Booláḳ edition. I
have continually referred to it for various readings, without
finding any one of importance. And here I must animadvert on
the practice of German orientalists of wasting their own time
and their readers' patience in collecting such various readings
of a work like "The Thousand and One Nights" as must
necessarily be the result of the carelessness or the ignorance
of copyists and reciters. The habit is unfortunately adopted by
some Englishmen, who seem to imagine that all that is German is
therefore learned.--ED.