Folk And Fairy Tales From Many Lands (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From Folk And Fairy Tales From Many Lands The First Adjective Of Our Title Also Needs A Similar Exten Sion Of Its Meaning. I Have Acted On MoliereS Principle, And Have Taken What Was Good Wherever I Could Find It. Thus, A Couple Of These Stories Have Been Found Among Descendants Of English Immigrants In America; A Couple Of Others I Tell As I Heard Them Myself In My Youth In Australia. One Of The Best Was Taken Down From The Mouth Of An English Gipsy. I Have Also Included Some Stories That Have Only Been Found In Lowland Scotch. I Have Felt Justified In Doing This, As Of The Twenty-One Folk Tales Contained In Chambers Popular Rhymes Of Scot Land, No Less Than Sixteen Are Also To Be Found In An English Form. With The Folk-Tale As With The Ballad. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses State-Of-The-Art Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work, Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases, An Imperfection In The Original, Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page, May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do, However, Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.