Aladdin, Ali Baba and other tales told to the sultan by his wife, Scheherazade, to keep him from having her put to death. In this new edition a few new stories have been added, some old ones omitted, according to the decision of an impartial jury of childrens librarians and the boys and girls themselves. The format of the book has been changed to conform in a pleasing manner to modern ideas of type and spacing.