In this volume, second in order of publication, less familiar fairy
stories are given, including The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Kari
Woodengown, and Mother Holle.
MULOCK, D.M. (Mrs. D.M. (M.) CRAIK). (p. 83)
@The Little Lame Prince.
Heath. .30
The story of Prince Dolor of Nomansland who floated out of
Hopeless Tower on the wonderful traveling cloak of Imagination.
An allegorical tale teaching patience and true kingship.
PRENTICE AND POWER.
This beautiful wonder story, because of its pathos, should perhaps be
withheld from a very sensitive child.
NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
Heart of Oak Books. Volume III. Fairy Tales, Ballads,
and Poems.
Heath. .40
These naturally serve as the gate of entrance into the wide open
fields of literature, especially into those of poetry. Poetry is
one of the most efficient means of education of the moral
sentiment, as well as of the intelligence. It is the source of
the best culture.--_Preface._
PAINE, A.B.
*The Arkansaw Bear.
Illustrated by Frank Verbeck.
Altemus. 1.00
The altogether charmingly impossible story of the travels of a little
boy and a bear who played the violin.
"And they travelled on forever and they'll never, never sever,
Bosephus and the fiddle and the old black bear."
PYLE, HOWARD. (p. 84)
The Wonder Clock.
Illustrated by the Author.
Harper. 2.00
Any undertaking of Mr. Pyle's is a guarantee of distinction in
material, style, and production, and these four and twenty fairy
tales, one for each hour of the day, are no exception. The
illustrations are among the author's best, and Miss Katharine Pyle
supplies charming little verses for the different hours.
VALENTINE, L. (J.) (Editor).
The Old, Old Fairy Tales.
Warne. 1.50
The tales contained in this volume have been the delight of many
generations of children, and can, in fact, claim a very distant
origin, though they were retold in their present form as late as
the age of Louis XIV. They are generally supposed to have come
from the East, for they are to be found in varied forms in all
the countries of E
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