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Title: Roumanian Fairy Tales

Author: Various

Compiler: Mite Kremnitz

Editor: J. M. Percival

Release Date: February 10, 2007 [EBook #20552]

Language: English

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ROUMANIAN FAIRY TALES

_COLLECTED_

BY

MITE KREMNITZ.

_ADAPTED AND ARRANGED_

BY

J. M. PERCIVAL

NEW YORK

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1885

COPYRIGHT, 1885,

BY

HENRY HOLT & CO.

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PREFACE.

This collection contains translations of Roumanian tales which,
however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure
that exists in the nation. The originals are scattered throughout
Roumanian literature. The finest collection is Herr P. Ispirescu's,
from which the stories numbered in the contents 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,
13, and 17 in the present volume have been selected. No. 11 is taken
from Herr T. M. Arsenie's small collection; the others have been drawn
from the columns of the periodical _Convorbiri Literare_. Of these
Nos. 5 and 14 are by the pen of Herr J. Creanga, No. 9 is the work of
Herr Miron Pompilin, while Nos. 1, 3, 7, 16 and 18 are by Herr
Slavice, who wrote No. 15 specially for this volume, in the Roumanian
language, just as it was related to him by the peasants.

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CONTENTS.

1. STAN BOLOVAN

2. THE WONDERFUL BIRD

3. THE TWINS WITH THE GOLDEN STAR

4. YOUTH WITHOUT AGE AN