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Chapter XV: Section III: Fairy Stories--Traditional Tales

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. STANDARD GENERAL COLLECTIONS

Jacobs, Joseph, _English Fairy Tales_, _More English Fairy Tales_,
_Celtic Fairy Tales_, _More Celtic Fairy Tales_, _Indian Fairy
Tales_, _Europa's Fairy Tales_.

Lang, Andrew, _The Blue Fairy Book_, _The Red Fairy Book_, _The
Green Fairy Book_, _The Yellow Fairy Book_.

The Perrault stories are included in the first.
Many other volumes named by colors (_Violet_,
_Orange_, etc.) were made under Mr. Lang's
direction, but these four include the cream.

II. NATIONAL COLLECTIONS

ENGLISH: Campbell, J. F., _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_.
4 vols.
Halliwell, J. O., _Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales_.
Hartland, E. S., _English Fairy and Folk Tales_.

GERMAN: Grimm, J. and W., _Kinder und Hausmaerchen_ (_Household
Tales_).

Translated by Edgar Taylor as _Grimm's Popular
Stories_ (55 stories, 1823-1827), and
illustrated by George Cruikshank. Best reprint
is in one volume with introduction by John
Ruskin.

Translated complete by Margaret Hunt (2 vols.,
1884), Introduction by Andrew Lang.

Other excellent translations of selected
stories by Mrs. Lucas and by Lucy Crane.

INDIAN: Frere, Mary, _Old Deccan Days_.
Knowles, J. H., _Folk Tales of Kashmir_.
Steel, Flora Annie, _Tales of the Punjab_. (Notes by
Captain R. C. Temple.)
Stokes, Maive, _Indian Fairy Tales_.

IRISH: Curtin, J., _Hero Tales of Ireland_.
Graves, A. P., _The Irish Fairy Book_.
Hyde, Douglas, _Beside the Fire_.
Joyce, P. W., _Old Celtic Romances_.
Wilde, Lady Constance, _Ancient Irish Legends_.
Yeats, W. B., _Irish Fairy Tales_.

ITALIAN: Crane, T. F., _Italian Popular Tales_.

NORSE: Asbjoernsen, P. C., and Moe, J., _Norske Folke-eventyr_
(_Norwegian Folk Tales_, 1842-1844, with subsequent
additions).

Translated by Sir George Webbe Dasent in
_Popular Tales from the Norse_ and _Tales of
the Fjeld_; by H. L. Braekstad in _Round the
Yule Log_ and _Fairy Tales from the North_.

SLAVIC: Bain, R. Nesbit, _Cossack Fairy Tales_, _Russian Folk
Tales_.

III. THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE

Cox, Roalfe, _Cinderella_. (Introduction by Lang.)
Clouston, W. A., _Popular Tales and Fictions_. 2 vols.
Gomme, G. L., _Folklore as an Historical Science_.
Hartland, E. S., _The Science of Fairy Tales_.
Keightly, Thomas, _Fairy Mythology_.
Lang, Andrew, _Perrault's Popular Tales_. (Introduction.)
MacCulloch, J. A., _The Childhood of Fiction_.

IV. PEDAGOGY

Adler, Felix, _The Moral Instruction of Children_, pp. 63-79.
Kready, Laura F., _The Study of Fairy Tales_. (Indispensable.)
MacClintock, P. L., _Literature in the Elementary School_, pp.
92-112.
McMurry, Charles, _Special Method in Reading_, pp. 47-69.

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