An excellent tale of village nursing.
FAIRY TALES.
There are certain fairy tales that are absolute classics, and a knowledge of which is absolutely necessary to understand common allusions. The grandmothers have ceased to tell them, and the little chap-books are no more, so that it has happened to me to pause on a mention of ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ and find no one understand it, and I have kept a whole school interested while waiting for an entertainment by telling one of these. Therefore, a small list is here given, for fairy tales should be regarded as treats, and only the superior ones put forth freely. It will generally be found that in the first stage of education they are despised, but that children of any imagination enjoy them. One or two imaginative classics are added.
576. The Fairy Book. Selected by the Author of ‘John Halifax.’ (Macmillan) 4s. 6d.
These are the genuine old fairy tales, that ought to be known to everyone, simply told.
577. Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Mrs. Paull’s Selection. (Warne) 3s. 6d. or 2s. 6d. Globe edition (Macmillan) 2s.
These two sets make up the real folk-lore tales—remnants of old myths, of more modern ones.