Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern

by Thomas Newbigging

• Krilof, or Krilov, Ivan Andreivitch, Russian fabulist, [19], [96], [97];
  • characteristics of his fables, [119];
  • sketch of his life, [120];
  • Ralston's translation, [119];
  • Harrison's translation, [119];
  • The Leaves and the Roots, [120];
  • The Geese, [121];
  • The Man with Three Wives, [123]

• Lady fabulists, [127]
• La Fontaine, Jean de, on fables, [13], [17];
  • the morals of his fables, [27];
  • his fable of The Old Woodcutter and Death, [58];
  • his fables, [96], [144];
  • sketch of, [97];
  • Matthews' translation, [99]
• La Motte, [17], [60]
• Land of the Halt, The, [132]
• Leaves and the Roots, The, [120]
• Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim:
  • his fables, [96], [97];
  • sketch of, [115];
  • his fables of Æsop and the Ass, [115];
  • The Shepherd and the Nightingale, [116];
  • Solomon's Ghost, [116]
• Lessons taught by fables, [25]
• L'Estrange, Sir Roger, [16], [59], [60];
  • as a writer, [61];
  • his version of Æsop, [125]
• Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, edited first English edition of Babrius in the original Greek text, [67]
• Locman, the Oriental fabulist, [37], [80], [85], [86]
• Lowell's 'Fable for Critics,' [145]
• Lysippus' statue of Æsop, [39]
• Lytton's, Lord, 'Fables in Song,' [145]

• Magpie and Stump, The, [140]
• Man and his Goose, The, [10]
• Man and the Lion, The, [9]
• Mandeville's 'Fable of the Bees,' [144]
• Mastiff and his Puppy, The, [126]
• Men loath to apply the moral of a fable to their own case, [22]
• Menas, M. Minoides, discovers a copy of Babrius, [66]
• Menenius recites the fable of The Belly and the Members, [69]
• Mercury and the Sculptor, [57]
• Mercury bestows the invention of the apologue on Æsop, [43]
• Miser and the Magpie, The, [109]
• Miser and Plutus, The, [106]
• Mixed fables, [11]
• Modern fabulists, [96], [108], [115], [125]
• Montaigne on Æsop's fables, [14]
• Moore's, Edward, 'Fables for the Fair Sex,' [126];
  • The Nightingale and the Glow-worm, [135]
• Moore's, Thomas, 'Political Fables,' [145]
• Moral and application of fables, [13];
  • whether the moral should be placed at the beginning or end of a fable, [16]

• Neveletus' collection of fables, [59];
  • on Babrius, [66]
• Nightingale and the Glow-worm, The, [135], [136]
• Nightingale and the Hawk, The, [54], [58]
• Nightingale, Cuckoo, and Ass, The, [142]
• Nivernois, [128];
  • The Farmer, Horseman, and Pedestrian, [131]
• Northcote, R.A., James:
  • his fables of The Elephant and the Fox, [29];
  • The Trooper and his Armour, [113];
  • his fables, [96], [97], [112];
  • sketch of his life, [112]

• Of Perfect Life, from 'The Gesta Romanorum,' [90]
• Old Woodcutter and Death, The, [58]

• Parables, [5], [6];
  • Nathan and the ewe lamb, [6];
  • of the Gospels, [6]
• Parodies on Æsop's fables, [127]
• Pater, Walter, definition of fable by, [2]
• Pathos in fables, [58]
• Perfect Life, Of, from 'The Gesta Romanorum,' [90]
• Periander, [34]
• Persian fables, [80]
• Phædrus, [3], [17], [55];
  • his view of the origin and purpose of fables, [20], [26];
  • on Æsop's statue, [39];
  • sketch of his life, [63];
  • prologue to his third book, [64]
• Philostratus on a picture of Æsop and the geniuses of fable, [40];
  • mythical account of the youthful Æsop, [43]
• Pictures illustrating fables, [143]
• Pilpay's fables, [80]
• Piper turned Fisherman, The, [76]
• Pittacus, [34]
• Planudes confounds Locman with Æsop, [37];
  • his stories of Æsop, [42]
• Plato advises the use of fables, [26];
  • citation from the 'Phædo' of, [59]
• Plutarch on Æsop at the Court of Crœsus, [49];
  • on Hesiod's fable of the nightingale, [54]
• Poggio, [128]
• Pope's epitaph on Gay, [105]
• Prosser's, Mrs., fables, [128]

• Quintilian recommends the learning of fables, [26]

• Ralston's, W. R. S., translation of Krilof's fables, [119];
  • The Geese, [121]
• Ramsay's, Allan, fables, [126]
• Rankine's, Professor W. J. Macquorn, fables on well-known signboards, [130];
  • The Magpie and Stump, [140];
  • The Green Man, [140];
  • The Bull and Mouth, [141]
• Rational fables, [11]
• Reflection, the, appended to fables, [15]
• Remark, the, appended to fables, [15]
• Rhodope, the reputed wife of Æsop, [38];
  • said to have built the Lesser Pyramid, [38]
• Richer, [60]
• Romulus, [128]
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, on fables, [25], [27]
• Rowe, Rev. Henry: his fables, [127]
• Rufus, [128]
• Russian fabulists, [129]

• Scandinavian heroes and gods, [1]
• Seven sages of Greece, the, [34]
• Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus,' fable of The Belly and the Members from, [69]
• Shepherd and the Nightingale, The, [116]
• Sidney, Sir Philip, on Æsop's fables, [145]
• Smart's, Christopher, translation of Phædrus, [64]
• Snake and the Hedgehog, The, [56]
• Socrates and Æsop's fables, [59]
• Solomon's Ghost, [116]
• Solon, [34];
  • at the Court of Crœsus, [49]
• Spanish fabulists, [129]
• Staite's, W. E., fables, [127]
• Steele's definition of fable, [4];
  • fable of The Mastiff and his Puppy, [126]
• Stephens', Robert, edition of the fables, [59]
• Stories related of Æsop, [43]
• Successful villain, the, in the fable, [28]
• Suidas quoted, [59]
• Swift quoted, [23]

• 'Tatler,' the, quoted, [4]
• Temple, Sir William, on Æsop, [60]
• Thales, [34]
• Toad and the Ephemeron, The, [110]
• Trees in Search of a King, The, the oldest fable in Holy Scripture, [71]
• Trimmer's, Mrs., fables of Æsop, [128]
• Trooper and his Armour, The, [113]
• Two Thrushes, The, [118]
• Tyrwhitt on Babrius, [66]