Fiction > Book editions > New York, 1885 - Dynamiter

A NOTE FOR THE READER.
It is within the bounds of possibility that you may take up
this volume, and yet be unacquainted with its predecessor ;
the first series of New Arabian Nights. The loss is yours
— and mine ; or to be more exact, my publisher's. But if you
are thus unlucky, the least I can do is to pass you a hint.
When you shall find a reference in the following pages to one
Theophilus Godall of the Bohemian Cigar Divan in Rupert
Street, Soho, you must be prepared to recognize, under his
features, no less a person than Prince Florizel of Bohemia,
formerly one of the magnates of Europe, now dethroned,
exiled, impoverished, and embarked in the tobacco trade.
R. L. S.