Note 554 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
These concealments are inevitable in ancient tale and modern novel, and it need hardly be said that upon the nice conduct of them depends all the interest of the work. How careful the second-rate author is to spoil his plot by giving a needless “pregustation” of his purpose, I need hardly say.