Minor moralists were unnumbered. Mr. Cooper, the author of _Blossoms of Morality_, having by his own account “accidentally met with a French edition of the Arabian Nights during a trip on the Continent”, and being “induced to wade through it, having no other book at hand”, was so far moved by the entertainment as to select and adapt some of the tales “for Youth”, under the title of _The Oriental Moralist_.[36]