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Title: Tales of Passed Times

Author: Charles Perrault

Illustrator: Charles Robinson

Release Date: August 23, 2010 [EBook #33511]

Language: English

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THE TEMPLE CLASSICS
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

[Illustration]

TALES _of_ PASSED TIMES

TOLD BY
MASTER CHARLES PERRAULT

_WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY_
CHARLES ROBINSON

LONDON:
J.M. DENT & COMPANY
ALDINE HOUSE, BEDFORD STREET
COVENT GARDEN.

1900.

It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number
of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it
includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the
Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without
"Beauty and the Beast"; a version of this tale, by Mme. Le Prince de
Beaumont, has, therefore, been added to this collection. It has also
been increased, space permitting it, by the insertion of two tales by
Mme. la Comtesse d'Aulnoy; her writings, of a less robust class than
those of Perrault, possess in their atmosphere of hidden magic, the
charm which resides in that special feature of fairyland, and the
addition of "The Benevolent Frog" and "Princess Rosette" will not, we
think, be unwelcome to the youthful reader.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD 5

LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 23

BLUE BEARD 31

MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS 43

THE FAIRIES 55

CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER 63

RIQUET WITH THE TUFT