Note 33 — Chapter I · THE IMAGINATIVE GROUP

The writer of a recent review, in the New York Evening Post, of Vol. IV., Lane’s Arabian Nights, Bohn edition, just issued, interprets the “African” magician of Aladdin as the “Tunisian” magician, and continues: “That Tunis was especially famous for magic does not seem to be elsewhere recorded. Such was, and is, the reputation rather of Morocco and of Africa farther west in general, and in this same tale the magician is also called a Maghribi, strictly a Moroccan.”