Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish
popular tales which _may justly be ranked with the best recent
collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.... A
delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader_.--_The
Nation._
I have now read the whole of your "Irish Myths," with perhaps one
exception, and I compliment you most heartily upon the book. _It is
wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of
fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation._ Fin MacCool and the
Fenians of Erin were great fellows anyway.--_Charles A. Dana._
A contribution to the literature of the subject which is of the very
first importance.... The stories are wonderfully fresh and distinct,
and they are pervaded with a most rare and delicious humor.--_The
Beacon._
A more thoroughly delightful book has not come to hand for many a long
day. Its tales have, in the first place, the genuine ring of original
myths, the true ring of folk-lore, that indescribable naïveté which is
as charming as it is inimitable.--_Boston Courier._
No more interesting or more valuable contribution to the literature of
this subject has ever been made.... The tales in this book are very
charming. They cover a wide range, and to adults as well as to
children of tender years they are simply fascinating.--_Quebec
Chronicle._
The work of the collector is not only performed faithfully, but with
such intelligence that the stories have a value in literature worthy
of being added to the Norse sagas and other tales of wild adventure
and myths.--_Boston Journal._