Fable
Thomas Newbigging's Fables and Fabulists (New York), critical and historical discussion of writers of the type.
Fables in the Bible, Judges 9:8-15; II Kings 14:9. Kalilah and Dimnah, or the Fables of Bidpai: an historical account with a translation into English, by Keith Falconer (London, 1885); Hitopadesa (The Book of Good Counsels), translated by Sir Edwin Arnold: Oriental Literature, vol. III (W. G. C.), also in N. U. L.; Aesop's Fables (Astor Library, Crowell; P. W. C.); Fables of Phaedrus, translated into prose and verse (Bohn); La Fontaine's Fables (T. C., Bohn); Iriarte's Literary Fables (first publ. 1782), English version by Rockliffe, 3rd edition, 1866; Gay's Fables, in Muses Library (Dutton); Richard Steele's Mastiff and His Puppy (Tatler, No. 115); Kriloff and His Fables, translated by J. R. S. Ralston (J. S. Ogilvie, N. Y.); Turkish Fables [46 in number], translated by Epiphanius Wilson: Turkish Literature (W. G. C.).
Parable
R. C. Trench, Notes on the Parables of Our Lord.
Parables of the Bible: II Samuel 12:1-4; 14:5-7; I Kings 20:39-40; Isaiah 5:1-6; 28:23-28; Matthew 13:4-7, 24-33; 18:23-35; 20:1-16; 21:33-41; 22:1-14; 25:1-13; 26:14-30, 31-46.
For a summary of Barlaam and Josaphat, see Dunlop's History of Fiction, vol. I, pp. 64-77.
Hamilton W. Mabie's Parables of Life. A number of the stories in Twenty-three Tales from Tolstoy (W. C.).
Allegory
James Baldwin's The Famous Allegories (Silver, Burdett); Olive Schreiner's Dreams; Oscar Wilde's Poems in Prose, (Fortnightly Review, 1894), also in Ideal Series of Little Masterpieces; Everyman, and eight other Moralities (E. L.); Henry Van Dyke's Blue Flower (Scribners); Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse (Houghton). Alfred de Musset's Story of a White Blackbird (Brentano) is a unique and daring autobiographical allegory.