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Show Original "Arabian Nlghti." Tho "Arabian Nights" In an oxters slvo collection of tales forming part ot tho Arabic literature and tho ex-act ex-act tltlo of which Is "Tho Book of tho Thousand and Ono Nights." They-were They-were first mado known to Europe by Antolno Gotland, between 1704 and 1717, Ho wns a Fronch orlontallst. H who succeeded, aftor much effort, la H obtaining a manuscript, which ho bud-plemcutcd bud-plemcutcd by gathorlng tales from pro fcsslonal story-tollers, whom ho mot during his travols In tho east. |