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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... Notes and References The Fairy Tales of England have been treated in rather a stepmotherly fashion. That they once existed in tolerable numbers there are still traces in the celebrated library-list of Captain Cox, among others, and in odd references in literature and in chap-books. But in the middle of last century the genius of Charles Perrault captivated English and Scotch children with as much force as or probably with even more force than he had entranced French ones. Cinderella and Puss in Boots and their companions ousted Childe Rowland and Mr. Fox and Catskin. The superior elegance and clearness of the French tales replaced the rude vigour of the English ones. What Perrault began, the Grimms completed. Tom Tit Tot gave way to Rumpelstiltschen, the Three Sillies to Hansel and Grethel, and the English Fairy Tale became a melange confus of Perrault and the Grimms. This would not have been so serious if English provincial life had been so conservative and tenacious as the provincial life of France, Italy, or Germany. But railways and the telegraph have disintegrated the provinces of England much more than abroad. And for various reasons the English peasant has never had so vivid a social life as the Bauer or Jacques Bonhomme. Consequently there is less hope of recovering the lost fairy tales of England to such a degree as has been accomplished with such brilliant success in almost every European country during the past thirty years, or still more conspicuously among the Gaels of Scotland by the late J. F. Campbell. Yet something has been done even for England. Halliwell collected a considerable number of folk-tales in two volumes he edited for the Percy Society and reprinted in his Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Mr. Baring-Gould appended to the first edition of Henderson's Folk-Lore o...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1234945517
- ISBN 13 9781234945510
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages58
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