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the stories come to us, the number of languages through which
they have been filtered, or the centuries during which they have
been told. Many of them have been narrated, almost in their
present shape, for thousands of years since, to little
copper-coloured Sanscrit children, listening to their mother
under the palm-trees by the banks of the yellow Jumna--their (p. 42)
Brahmin mother, who softly narrated them through the ring in
her nose. The very same tale has been heard by the Northmen
Vikings as they lay on their shields on deck; and by Arabs
couched under the stars on the Syrian plains when the flocks were
gathered in and the mares were picketed by the tents.
THACKERAY.

CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator).
Aladdin.
Lane. .25

These richly colored Eastern pictures will give even little children a
suggestion of the splendor of the Orient. Let us hope that they will
never be too ready to answer the call of "New lamps for old ones."

Walter Crane is the serious apostle of art for the nursery, who
strove to beautify its ideal, to decorate its legends with a real
knowledge of architecture and costume, and to mount the fairy
stories with a certain archaeological splendor.... As a maker of
children's books, no one ever attempted the task he fulfilled so
gayly, and no one since has beaten him on his own ground.
GLEESON WHITE.

CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator).
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Lane. .25

It seems hardly right to omit this edition of so celebrated a tale
pictured by so celebrated an artist, yet Mr. Crane's work breathes
mystery and Oriental cunning from every page, and should be given to
our youngsters only after examination, as a highly-strung child might
be frightened by it. The picture of the resourceful Morgiana filling
the oil-jars, while a dreadful robber with saucer-like eyes peers (p. 43)
from one of them, is awful indeed.

CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator).
Beauty and the Beast.
Lane. .25

Charming illustrations accompany this prose version of the ancient
favorite which will long endure because of the great truth underlying
the grotesque tale.

CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator).
Cinderella.
Lane. .25

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