Fables and Fairy Tales
Fables and fairy tales are condensed dramas, and some of them are crystal drops from the fountains of poetic thought. Often they express in picture language the deepest lessons that mankind have learned; and one who wishes to gather to himself the intellectual wealth of the nations must not neglect them. In the section of the book devoted to remarks upon the Guidance of Children, the literature of this subject receives more extended attention. Among the books that will most interest the student of this subject may be mentioned the works of Fiske and Bulfinch, named below, Baldwin’s “Story of the Golden Age,” Ragozin’s “Chaldea,” Kingsley’s “Greek Heroes,” Cox’s “Tales of Ancient Greece,” Hanson’s “Stories of Charlemagne,” Church’s “Story of the Iliad” and “Story of the Æneid,” and the books mentioned in connection with the “Morte D’Arthur,” note 323 following:—
Notes
263 “Fairy Tales,” “Shoes of Fortune,” etc. (Denmark, 19th cent.)
264 The inimitable French poet of Fable. (France, 17th cent.)
265 The world-famous Greek fabulist. His popularity in all ages has been unbounded. Socrates amused himself with his stories. (Greece, 6th cent. b. c.)
266 “Household Tales.” (Ger., early 19th cent.)
267 “Reineke Fox.” (Bohn Lib.) (Ger., early 19th cent.)
Kipling’s “Indian Tales.” (Eng., 19th cent.)
268 “Age of Fable,” “Age of Chivalry,” etc. (Eng., 19th cent.)
269 Fables in his poems. (U. S., 19th cent.)
270 A French fabulist, next in fame to La Fontaine. (18th cent.)
271 Greek Fables. (About com. Christ. era.)
272 “Tales.” (Ger., 19th cent.)
273 “Metamorphoses.” An account of the mythology of the ancients. Ovid was one of Rome’s greatest poets. (Rome, 1st cent. b. c.)
Curtin’s “Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland,” “Myths and Folk-Tales of the Russians,” etc. (U. S., 19th cent.)
Fiske’s “Myths and Myth Makers.” (U. S., 19th cent.)