“We feel confident in stating that this tale is the production of Lord Blessington.”—Literary Gazette, May 1826.
“His Lordship has chosen a remote era, and has carried to his investigation the light-hearted, and, we were about to say, insolent spirit of curiosity which characterizes the modern temper; and accordingly he has drawn a picture, which we feel to be unusual, but are inclined to suspect may be true.”—New Monthly Magazine, June, 1826.
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“Some be’th of war and some of woe,
And some of fun and fudge also,
Some of escapes and guile and death;
Also of Love forsooth there be’th.”
19. A NEW SERIES of ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS, selected from the original Oriental MS., and now first translated into English by the Rev. GEORGE LAMB. 3 vols. small 8vo. 18s.