The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-02-12
TIE lRIBLx NI6Hz&
The Mystery Of Aissdi. and All Bass Selves
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Tales. ana Net the Wsrk or Gsliand.

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Tales, ana Net the Wsrk or Gslisnd.
Fron AsIondsn Daily Ne,ps
A famous literary problem which has
puzzled generations OF scholars has lust been
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the puzzle q their origin has. caused the livoli.
est curiosity. These tales. whose sources were
refers to the XTabisn Siishts', it is almost al
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Such has been the riddle Of Asnbists ever since
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stories which he palmed OF upon Paris and
honesty, was undoubtedly highly flatterine to
The theory Of ,audacious literary impcsture.
tlcaily, knocked 70 pieces when the Breslau text
original had been discovered, the, discover Of
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across tales OF remarkable similarity. There
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The late PRO-; Palmer was very skspticaIl as TO
shs A spsaSi Ssie1n Of k etAhlisadl aenni But could sll this is
much more than 100 years their o5lein e;
single story out OF them ali rewarded the per:
severance and stimulated the enterprise Of
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aaliand's own authority: N. Z2otenbers hss
%l| SS"ss1 on No a : s Sslle 81 March, oqiEE0oss . he rG %es =
certain GER + sG.o M, II H lam h q p Maro Fns. Of tAhlspgo; who
nhu accompanied u. fhul- LuCAs, lne Eastern
traveller. to Paris. N. Hanna then. and at
several later dates, told him Eastern tales, Of
which Galland was careful to make copious
summaries In his journal. These tales included
Aladdin" the story Of the Blind Man Baba
story Of The Enchanted Horse" the story of
the, ".Enyious Sisters the story Of Ahmed
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n NJ eve even wrote t: 0qt 1SE dalland the Arabic text
Here is indeed an astonishing revelation.
The mystery of the tales 10 solved at last as
far as Galland is concerned; but 1t has passed
from Galland to Hanna-to the mystic Maronite
who has. vanished into space like one of his
own enchanters. Whore did he get his mar
vellous budget Of talesp Who wilt tell US what be-
came ofhim2 Does Aleppo or Damascus rightly
claim him2 N. Galland In his journal attrib-
utes him indiferontly to both these cities. Did
he leave precious manuscripts behind him. and,
ifso. what has become Of them ? These are dues-
tons which must still t~antalize tho minds of the
curious. In any case, thanks to NJ. Gutenberg.
forever. Antoine Galland certainly was not tho
inventor Of Ali Bahia" or Aladdin" and the
rest Of the stories, whose origin was till this
month yelled in obscurity. The year 1883 is,
we are told by the wise. to be o lucky year. It
has certainly. begun luckily. with the solution.
partial indeed but still highly satisfactory, Of q
literary problem which has perturbod scholars
for many irritable generations.