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      Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664624567

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      INTRODUCTION

      FAVORITE FAIRY TALES

       JACK THE GIANT-KILLER

      CINDERELLA OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER

      JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK

      THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD

      LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD

      THE UGLY DUCKLING

      HOP-O’-MY-THUMB

      BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

      LITTLE SNOWDROP

      THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS

      SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED

      THE WILD SWANS

      ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP

      ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

      THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR

      THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA, A MERCHANT OF BAGDAD

JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK. Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie President of the New York Free Kindergarten Association. Associate Editor of The Outlook THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Shailer Mathews Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Chicago. Editor of The World To-day Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie Dr. Henry Van Dyke Author. Professor of English Literature in Princeton University LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD. Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Henry M. Alden THE UGLY DUCKLING. Hans Christian Andersen This Story is the Choice of: The Honorable William J. Bryan Publicist and Editor Miss Jane Addams Head Resident of Hull House, Chicago HOP-O’-MY-THUMB. This Story is the Choice of: Henry James Author

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. From the French of Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve This Story is the Choice of: Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” LITTLE SNOWDROP. This Story is the Choice of: Howard Pyle Artist and Author THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS. Robert Southey This Story is the Choice of: F. A. Kendall Secretary of the Illinois Pupils’ Reading Circle SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. Grimm This Story is the Choice of: Frederick Dielman President of the National Academy of Design THE WILD SWANS. Hans Christian Andersen This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Henry Van Dyke Mrs. Alice Meynell Poet and Essayist

ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Charles William Eliot President of Harvard University Dr. Henry Van Dyke J. M. Pereles Dr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Author ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Samuel L. Clemens Dr. Charles William Eliot Dr. Lyman Abbott Editor of The Outlook THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Lyman Abbott THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA, A MERCHANT OF BAGDAD. “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. William Dean Howells Author

ILLUSTRATIONSTable of Contents “CAN’T YOU RENDER ME SOME ASSISTANCE?”Frontispiece“I WILL BROIL YOU FOR MY BREAKFAST”Facing p.2THE SLIPPER FITTED EXACTLY“48JUST AS HE LAID HIS HAND UPON ONE OF THEM, THE LITTLE DOG BARKED MOST FURIOUSLY“66A YOUNG GIRL OF WONDERFUL BEAUTY LAY ASLEEP ON AN EMBROIDERED BED“82HE ASKED HER POLITELY WHERE SHE WAS GOING“88SOME LITTLE CHILDREN THREW PIECES OF BREAD INTO THE WATER“114THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO CRY AS LOUD AS THEY COULD“120SHE SAW AT HER FEET A HANDSOME, GRACEFUL YOUNG PRINCE“170“OH, HEAVEN,” THEY CRIED, “WHAT A LOVELY CHILD!”“180THE VOICE OF THE LITTLE, SMALL, WEE BEAR AWAKENED HER AT ONCE“200

ELISE SAW AN ICE PALACE, WITH ONE BOLD COLONNADE BUILT ABOVE ANOTHERFacing p.238“I AM THE SLAVE OF THE RING, AND WILL OBEY THEE IN ALL THINGS”“260CASSIM FORGETS THE MAGIC WORD“294THE MERCHANTS BEGAN THEIR SHOUTING TO FRIGHTEN THE EAGLES“318THE CALIPH LISTENING TO THE CHILDREN’S COURT“342 Decorative borders by Francis I. Bennett

INTRODUCTIONTable of Contents

      WHAT are the best fairy stories? Are they not those which have lived most vividly in active minds? The ripeness of after life works its changes; but we are not dealing with literary judgments—rather with the choice of childhood which fortunately lingers in memory, whatever store of wisdom may come in later years. There is here no question of the new or unusual. On the contrary, it is the ideas or visions handed down for generations or centuries and set in final form that remain with us as types of fancy or wisdom. Of these there are so many that a selection is essential. No one book can be a complete treasure-house of all the imagination, humor, and sentiment of the fairy tale. But it has been possible to obtain a representative judgment for this volume which we believe to be of peculiar worth.

      This book gives us the favorite fairy tales of men and women who have gained eminence in American life. It is a book, therefore, based upon an original plan, which stands by itself. Any collection formed by one person must reflect personal preferences. It must have obvious limitations, however excellent—as in the case of Miss Mulock or Laboulaye—the choice of the single editor may be. But to a large extent such a collection as this represents that consensus of opinion

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