Transcribed from the 1903 Longmans, Green And Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org _MORE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS_ THE DYNAMITER BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND FANNY VAN DE GRIFT STEVENSON [Picture: The Silver Library] _NEW IMPRESSION_ * * * * * LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1903 _All rights reserved_ * * * * * _BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE_ _First Edition_, _April 1885_; _Reprinted May 1885_, _July 1885_. _Silver Library Edition_, _January 1895_; _Reprinted March 1897_, _July 1899_, _August 1903_. TO MESSRS. COLE AND COX, POLICE OFFICERS _Gentlemen,—In the volume now in your hands_, _the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime_, _with which it is your glory to have contended_. _It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit_. _Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain_, _where crime preserves some features of nobility_, _and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation_. _Horror_, _in this case_, _is due to Mr. Parnell_: _he sits before posterity silent_, _Mr. Forster’s appeal echoing down the ages_. _Horror is due to ourselves_, _in that we have so long coquetted with political crime_; _not seriously weighing_, _not acutely following it from cause to consequence_; _but with a generous_, _unfounded heat of sentiment_, _like the schoolboy with the penny tale_, _applauding what was specious_. _When it touched ourselves_ (_truly in a vile shape_), _we proved false to the imaginations_; _discovered_, _in a clap_, _that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names_; _and recoiled from our false deities_.