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Fairy Tales From all Nations By: Anthony R. Montalba |
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ALL NATIONS. BY ANTHONY R. MONTALBA. WITH TWENTY FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICHARD DOYLE.
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, 186, STRAND. MDCCCXLIX.
TO
THE ILLUSTRIOUS PATRON OF LETTERS THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL FITZWILLIAM, This Little Book IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED, AS A MARK OF SINCEREST GRATITUDE AND RESPECT, BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT AND DEVOTED SERVANT, A. R. MONTALBA.
PREFACE.
The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have
been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those
days it was not held that Beauty is its own excuse for being; on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned supreme in
literature, and fancy and imagination were told to fold their wings,
and travel only in the dusty paths of every day life. Fairy tales, and
all such flights into the region of the supernatural, were then
condemned as merely idle things, or as pernicious occupations for
faculties that should be always directed to serious and profitable
concerns. But now we have cast off that pedantic folly, let us hope
for ever. We now acknowledge that innocent amusement is good for its
own sake, and we do not affect to prove our advance in civilisation by
our incapacity to relish those sportive creations of unrestricted
fancy that have been the delight of every generation in every land
from times beyond the reach of history. The materials of the following Collection have been carefully chosen
from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations; and
none of them, so far as the Editor is aware, have been previously
translated into English. The Editor cannot close this brief Preface without expressing his
grateful acknowledgments of the enhanced attraction imparted to his
little work by Mr. Richard Doyle's admirable Illustrations.
CONTENTS.
TALE. LANGUAGE. AUTHOR. PAGE. BIRTH OF THE FAIRY TALE 1 SNOW WHITE AND ROSY RED Danish TORGEN MOE AND
P. ASBIÖRNSON 9 THE STORY OF ARGILIUS AND
THE FLAME KING Slavonic COUNT MAYLÁTH 20 PERSEVERE AND PROSPER Arabic DR. G. WEIL 38 PRINCE OF THE GLOW WORMS German FRIEDRICH VON SALLET 41 THE TWO MISERS Hebrew 71 PRINCE CHAFFINCH French 73 THE WOLF AND THE NIGHTINGALE Swedish E. M. ANNDT 105 THE ENCHANTED CROW Polish K. W. WOYCICKY 132 THE DRAGON GIANT AND HIS
STONE STEED Russian O. L. B. WOLFF 153 THE STORY OF SIVA AND MADHAVA Sanskrit SOMADEVA BHATTA 185 THE GOBLIN BIRD Betschuanian CASALIS 201 THE SHEPHERD AND THE SERPENT German 209 THE EXPEDITIOUS FROG Wendian LEOPOLD HAUSST AND
J. E. SCHMALER 215 EASTWARD OF THE SUN, AND
WESTWARD OF THE MOON Norwegian P. ASBIÖRNSON 217 THE LITTLE MAN IN GREY Upper Lusatian MONTZ HAUSST 236 RED, WHITE, AND BLACK Norman L'HERITIER 243 THE TWELVE LOST PRINCESSES African
AND THE WIZARD KING. 249 THE STUDY OF MAGIC UNDER
DIFFICULTIES Italian STRAPPAROLA 268 FORTUNE'S FAVOURITE Hungarian G. VON GALL 281 THE LUCKY DAYS Italian STRAPPAROLA 309 THE FEAST OF THE DWARFS Icelandish 313 THE THREE DOGS Frieslandish L... Continue reading book >>
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