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  • CELTIC FOLK AND FAIRY TALES
    JOSEPH JACOBS AND JOHN DICKSON BATTEN
    Excerpt: "Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of succes...

    $39.70

  • MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES
    JOSEPH JACOBS AND JOHN DICKSON BATTEN
    Excerpt: "For the last time, for the present, I give the children of the British Isles a selection of Fairy Tales once or still existing among them. The story store of Great Britain and Ireland is, I hope, now adequately represented in the four volumes which have won me so many little friends, and of which this is the last." ...

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  • INDIAN FAIRY TALES
    JOSEPH JACOBS / JOHN DICKSON BATTEN
    Excerpt: "From the extreme West of the Indo-European world, we go this year to the extreme East. From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism. Soils and national characters...

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