A perfectly lovely book. And oh! the wonderful pictures inside.
Get this book if you can; it is capital, all through.--_Pall Mall
Budget._
=INDIAN FAIRY TALES.= Edited by JOSEPH JACOBS, and Illustrated by
J. D. Batten. Sm. demy 8vo, pp. xvi-253, with 9 full-page and
numerous Vignettes, Tail-pieces, Initials, &c.
The book is good both for the schoolroom and the study.--_Daily
News_ (Leader).
Mr. Jacobs' ably edited "Indian Fairy Tales" is a bright example
of almost all that a fairy-book should he.--_Daily Chronicle._
If I were asked to select a child's library I should name these
three volumes ['English,' 'Celtic,' and 'Indian Fairy Tales'],
with Grimm, Hans Andersen, and one or two good volumes of
poetry.--_Irish Daily Independent._
We are absolutely sure (which we scarcely ever are) that this book
is a most pleasing volume.--_Saturday Review._
The form in which they are presented is admirable, and nothing
could be better in their way than Mr. Batten's designs to
illustrate them.--_North British Daily Mail._
Mr. Jacobs brings home to us in a clear and intelligible manner
the enormous influence which Indian Fairy Tales have had upon
European literature of the kind.--_Gloucester Journal._
Mr. Jacobs is a delightful companion into a land of enchantment,
and his successive books are treasures.--_Notes and Queries._
The present combination will be welcomed not alone by the little
ones for whom it is specially combined, but also by children of
larger growth and added years.--_Daily Telegraph._
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Transcriber's Notes:
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without comment and
include missing or end of sentence comma and period errors and missing
or misplaced quotation marks.
Characters in bold Gothic font, in the Celtic language, with a single
overdot accent have been converted to their sound (ex. th, gh, dh,
bh, fh).
In all references to the "King of Moroco", the center "o" was accented
with a macron (ex. Mor[=o]cos), which has been converted to a plain "o".
In the date reference of the final illustration the "th" in 19th was
superscripted in the original text.
Spelling Corrections:
p. 17, "yon" to "you" (a gentleman such as you)
p. 27, "Pwyll" to "Powel" (he returned to Powel)
p. 42, "Tiernyon" (2) to "Teirnyon" (21) (... said his wife unto
Teirnyon) and (... said Teirnyon)
p. 120 "daugher" to "daughter" (59) (let my daughter go)
p. 125, "hegoes" to "he goes" (and down he goes to)
p. 134, "Ill" to "I'll" (I'll try that upon thee)
p. 138, "daughers" to "daughters" (69) ("Oh," said the daughters)
p. 236, "bo" to "book" (Get this book if you can;)
Printer Error corrections:
p. 178, closed-up blank space in unindented sentences between
(... Rome to Rome to-morrow.) and (Unless you deceive me ...),
and removed extra opening quotation mark.
Word Variations retained:
"bagpipes" (1) and "bag-pipes" (1)
"lapdog" (6) and "lap-dog" (3)
"MacDougal" (1) and "MacDougall" (1) (re: Waifs and Strays)
"pishrogue" (1) and "pishtrogue" (1) (A fairy spell to distort reality?)
"West Irish Folk-Tales" (1) and "West Irish Folk-tales" (1)
"tablecloth" (2) and "table-cloth" (2) (p. 208-9)