And the fowls of the air and they shall tell thee.
The first story is about Volgá, and in the first picture you see him listening to a wise old Bear.
Jane Ellen Harrison.
This book is for children, and is no place for bibliography, but we should like to own our debt to three books. Chudinov’s Byliny in the “Russian School Library” was our first introduction (in Russian) to the hero-tales; but for Rambaud’s La Russie Épique it would have been difficult to put the stories together; and, last, to the kindness of Mr. E. T. Minns we are indebted for the loan of Hilferding’s invaluable Sbornik, now out of print, and not easily obtainable during the War.
M. C. H.
J. E. H. [[xiii]]
[1] The Russian titles are translated in the [List of Illustrations], p. xv. [↑]