This book contains several stories in addition to “The One-Eyed Griffin,” which is the chief item among them. This narrative is that of a little boy who enters into the realms of fabulous monsters, where he encounters the giants Can’t, Won’t, and Don’t Care, into whose terrible clutches has fallen the lady of his heart. With the aid of the One-Eyed Griffin he succeeds in overcoming them, and the story continues, in allegorical fashion, to detail the difficulties which befall the diminutive hero. The illustrations are singularly happy in their delineation of the subject, and will win the affections of the youthful circle for whose benefit the volume has been produced.
Grimms’ Goblins.
These famous stories, collected by the brothers Grimm in the fertile and imaginative field of their native land, have an ever-growing number of readers, to whom this edition with its clear type and lavish illustration will at once commend itself.
Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
Full of incident and wonderful adventure, these popular tales are here presented in a garb that assures a hearty welcome from all who delight in finding really high-class children’s literature, issued in a thoroughly attractive and up-to-date style.
Andersen’s Tales for the Young.
Amongst all the various editions of Andersen’s popular tales, none will be found to surpass this edition for fidelity in translation, fineness of text, and excellence of get-up. The boy or girl who receives it as a gift is not to be satisfied with books if not charmed with such a present.
Andersen’s Fairy Tales.
To the insatiable appetite for stories, which is a never-failing attribute of the young, no better food can be found than this book affords. The tales are world-wide favourites, known to nursery-land of all nations, and discussed in that realm with all the seriousness and circumstance that attaches to personages actually existent.
Holme Lee’s Fairy Tales.