1924. I have yet to read this one, but the note in the front says this: Among the oldest of long Island families is that known as the "tangier"Smiths. They are descendants of Colonel William Smith who was English Mayor if Tangier in Africa from 1675 to 1684.. Charles the second, of England, marrying the daughter of the King of Portugal, Had received, as part of her marriage portion, the cities of Tangier and Bombay. After the English quitted Tangier. William Smith came to America. That is history. but the Thousand and First Night is a fiction.