Originally published in 1908. The author intends to give "a clear and accurate description of a distinct component part of eighteenth-century English fiction in its relation to its French sources and to the general current of English thought." The author considers the presence of oriental and pseudo-oriental tales in England and France in the 18th century as part of the develpment of the Romantic movement. Chapters group tales as Imaginative, Moralistic, Philisophic, and Satiric. Appendices include a chronological table. This reprint is like new. No jacket. Octagon Books Inc., NY. 1966. 312. Hb. USED. $20.00