Andrew Lang, Custom and Myth (Longmans). Max Müller, Chips from a German Workshop, vol. II and IV. Max Müller, Last Essays, 2nd series. W. G. Wood Martin, Traces of the Elder Faiths in Ireland, 2 vols. E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture. Laura E. Poor, Sanscrit and Its Kindred Literatures. Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology.
DICTIONARIES
Fernando Blumentritt, Dictionario Mitológico de las Filipinas. Isabelo de los Reyes, La Religion Antigua de los Filipinos. E. C. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Altemus). A. S. Murray, Manual of Mythology.
COLLECTIONS OF MYTHS
Hawthorne's Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (E. L.). The works of Jeremiah Curtin: Creation Myths of Primitive America; Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland; Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars; A Journey in Southern Siberia [the religion and myths of the Mongols]. The works of C. M. Skinner: American Myths and Legends, 2 vols; Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorates; Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, 2 vols.; Myths and Legends Beyond Our Borders. Florence J. Stoddard's As Old as the Moon [Folk-lore of the Antillas] (Doubleday, Page); Myths of the Quichas. Guerber's Myths of Greece and Rome; Bulfinch's Age of Fable; Katherine B. Judson's Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest (McClurg); T. G. Thrum's Stories of the Menehunes (1910).
Legend and Saga
The Legends of St. Patrick, by Aubrey de Vere (C. N. L.); H. A. Guerber's Legends of Switzerland, and Legends of the Rhine; Sidney Lanier's Boys' Library of Legend and Chivalry contains The Boy's King Arthur, The Boy's Percy, and The Knightly Legends of Wales (Scribners); Selma Lagerlöf's Invisible Links; Ruskin's King of the Golden River (A. B.); Canton's W. V.'s Golden Legend (Dodd, Mead); Finnish Legends, stories from the Kalevala, told by Eivind (T. Fisher Unwin). S. Baring Gould's Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Longmans) are really legends. Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales includes a number of legends. Mediaeval Tales in Morley's Universal Library contains stories from the Gesta Romanorum and the Faust legend. Nutt's Legends of the Holy Grail. Dr. Whitley Stokes has translated many of the early Irish sagas (Revue Celtique, 1869-1902, and in Irische Texte, 1880-1902). Kipling's Puck of Pooh's Hill [fairy tale and legend] (Doubleday); Eleanor H. Broadus' The Book of the Christ Child (Appleton); Van Dyke's Other Wise Man (Harpers) is purely literary. The Story of Grettir the Strong, translated from the Icelandic by Magnusson and Morris (Longmans); The Volsunga Saga, translated by Magnusson and Morris (Scott); Beowulf, translated into modern English prose, by J. Clark Hall (Sonnenschein); J. Baldwin's Story of Roland (Scribners); C. D. Wilson's Story of the Cid for Young People. The Nibelungenlied is well translated in the World's Great Classics Series and contains a good introduction. Orlando Furioso, translated by W. S. Rose (Bohn). The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest (Nutt); The Stories of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, told by Oman (Bohn). An English translation of the Shah Nameh may be found in Oriental Literature (W. G. C.).
Fairy Tale and Nursery Saga
Collectors have not distinguished carefully between fairy tales and nursery sagas. Many of the collections cited as fairy tales contain nursery sagas. A general term often used to include both is folk-tales; Tolstoy has re-done several of the Russian folk stories, which may be found in Twenty-three Tales from Tolstoy, translated by L. & F. Maude (W. C.). T. G. Thrum's Hawaiian Folk-Tales; F. H. Cushing's Zuñi Folk-Tales (Putnam); Blue, Red, Green, Gray, Yellow, Pink, Violet, Crimson, and Brown Fairy Books, edited by A. Lang (Longmans). The Fairy Library (Putnam), collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs, contains English, Celtic, Indian, East Indian, Persian, Chinese, South Sea Island, African, and Japanese fairy tales. W. R. S. Ralston's Russian Fairy and Folk Tales (Hurst); English Fairy and Folk Tales, edited by E. S. Hartland (Scott); Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, edited by Sir Geo. Douglas (Scott); Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, edited by W. B. Yeats (Scott); Grimm's Household Tales in any of the good editions (E. L., Lippincott, Bohn); Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (E. L.). Burt's Fairy Library includes among others Cossack Fairy Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, Turkish Fairy Tales. Fairy Gold, stories chosen by E. Rhys (E. L.). Thomas Keightley's Fairy Mythology (Bohn) is a standard reference work. Alfred Nutt's Fairy Mythology of Shakespeare (1900).