“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly to that master’s best.”
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright. [Fairy tales every child should know.] [**]90c. Doubleday.
Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.
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| + + — | Nation. 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w. | |
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w. |
“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics was written.”
| + + — | Outlook. 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w. | |
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[*] Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed. [Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people.] [**]90c. Doubleday.
“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’ furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr. Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’ are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.
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