Antar: A Bedoueen Romance

ANTAR, A BEDOUEEN ROMANCE. TRANSLATED FROM THE ARABIC. BY TERRICK HAMILTON, ESQ. ORIENTAL SECRETARY TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY AT CONSTANTINOPLE. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1819. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, St. James’s. INTRODUCTION. The Translator of “The History of Antar” being out of England, it is not in the Editor’s power to give to the reader much preliminary information on the contents or nature of the Epic Tale, which is now for the first time in part submitted to the European Public. Antar is no imaginary personage. He was the son of an Arab Prince of the tribe of Abs, by a black woman, whom his father had made captive in a predatory excursion: and he…

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