ned magistrate. Ethel was discharged, but it was ordered
that she should be sent to the workhouse for inquiries to be
made into her state of mind.']

The Adventures of Quicksilver Ali of Cairo.--This story is of the same
nature as the preceding one, and in all the editions of the 'Nights'
the one always follows the other, while in the Breslau text the two
stories run together. Ali begins life at Cairo, and ends at Baghdad,
where his tricks and adventures follow each other in rapid succession,
his object being to obtain in marriage the hand of Zeynab, the
daughter of Dalilah the Crafty. He is first tricked himself by Zeynab,
but continues his pursuit of her, and though at times he is
transformed into the shapes of an ass, a bear, and a dog by the magic
arts of Azariah the Jew, eventually he succeeds, with the aid of the
Jew's daughter, in obtaining the property required, and finally
marries Zeynab, the Jewess, and two other women.

Hasan of Busra and the King's Daughter of the Jinn.--This is a good
specimen of a real Oriental romance, with the wonderful and marvellous
adventures of the hero interlaced with magic, alchemy, the Jinns, and
other fabulous varieties, so that the highest ideals of the
imagination are almost arrived at.

Bahram the Magician, who first beguiles Hasan with alchemy and then
carries him off and endeavours to destroy him, is himself destroyed in
the early part of the story. The kindness of the seven princesses to
Hasan during his stay with them, and his visits to them later on, are
described at length, as also is the way in which the hero falls
desperately in love with the king's daughter of the Jinn, and secures
her as his bride. The happy pair start for Busra, and rejoin his
mother, and then settle down in Baghdad, where two sons are born and
happiness reigns supreme. But during Hasan's absence on a visit to his
former friends the seven princesses, some domestic scenes between his
wife, his mother, and Zobeidah, the spouse of the Khalif
Harun-ar-Rashid, are introduced, which end by the wife re-possessing
herself of her original feather garment, and flying off with her two
children to the islands of Wac, where her father and family resided.

On his return Hasan is broken-hearted to find her gone, and determines
to set out and try and recover her. Then follows the description of
his journeys, which fill pages describing the white country, and the
black mountain, the land of camphor, an