FOUR WORTHIES
"Æsop's Fables"
P—This enduring form of literature may be read in almost any grade. The edition is to be determined largely by the grade for which it is designed. In point of effectiveness in showing human experiences and weaknesses by means of animal action, the classic fable has never been equalled by any other form of literature. He would be a rash man who would claim that Lincoln owed to Euclid more of his power to think out a question and carry his point than he did to Æsop. Fables are imaginative literature, and in that lies their power rather than in their didactic assertion that later became attached as a moral to be pointed. They need but one moral, as G. K. Chesterton so aptly observes; for nothing in this world has more than one moral.
*"The Fables of Æsop." Selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by Richard Heighway. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. In the New Cranford Series. Macmillan. Good for younger children, but should be printed without notes and advertisements.
*"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in colour-plates. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. Doubleday. An attractive edition, except the poor binding, for older children. The introduction by G. K. Chesterton is very readable for grown-ups.
*"A Hundred Fables of Æsop." From the English version of Sir Roger L'Estrange with an introduction by Kenneth Grahame and illustrations by Percy J. Billinghurst. Square 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Lane. Good in its quaint English.
"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated by Boyd Smith. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00. Century.
"The Fables of Æsop." Illustrated with colour-plates by Edward Detmond. Large 8vo. Cloth, $2.00. Doran.
"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by Harrison Weir. Crown 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Harper.
"Æsop's Fables." Edited by Gordon Holmes and illustrated by Charles Folkard. 8vo. Cloth, 6s. Black.
"Big Book of Fables." Edited by Walter Jerrold and illustrated in colour and black-and-white by Charles Robinson. Royal 8vo. Cloth, $3.00. Caldwell.
"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated in colour and black-and-white by J. M. Condé. 8vo. Cloth, $1.25. Moffat.
"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated in colour and line by Lucy Fitch Perkins. 4to. Cloth, $1.00. Stokes.
"The Book of Fables." Chosen and phrased by Horace E. Scudder. 16mo. Cloth, $.50. Houghton. Good.
"Æsop's Fables." Translated from the original sources by the Reverend Thomas James. Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. In the Ariel Classics. 16mo. Leather, $.75. Putnam. A useful old edition for the teacher and for the older boy who will read a dainty book done in red binding.
"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated. In the Chandos Classics. 12mo. Cloth, $.75. Warne. Good for the teacher.
"Æsop's Fables." Edited by J. H. Stickney. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $.35. Ginn.
"The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom." Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. Illustrated by Harold Nelson. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25. Doubleday. From Æsop, La Fontaine, Bidpai, and other sources.
*"Select Fables from La Fontaine adapted from the Translation of Elizier Wright for the Use of the Young." Illustrated in colour by Boutet de Monvel. 11 x 9. Cloth, $2.25. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. No better illustrations have yet appeared to any child's book.