ws have passed them about; Roman
soldiers of many different races, moved here and there about the Empire,
have trafficked in them. From the remotest days men have been wanderers,
and wherever they went their stories accompanied them. The slave trade
might take a Greek to Persia, a Persian to Greece; an Egyptian woman to
Phoenicia; a Babylonian to Egypt; a Scandinavian child might be carried
with the amber from the Baltic to the Adriatic; or a Sidonian to Ophir,
wherever Ophir may have been; while the Portuguese may have borne their
tales to South Africa, or to Asia, and thence brought back other tales
to Egypt. The stories wandered wherever the Buddhist missionaries went,
and the earliest French voyageurs told them to the Red Indians. These
facts help to account for the sameness of the stories everywhere; and
the uniformity of human fancy in early societies must be the cause of
many other resemblances.

In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, collected
by Mr. Fairbridge, who speaks the native language, and one is brought
by Mr. Cripps from another part of Africa, Uganda. Three tales from the
Punjaub were collected and translated by Major Campbell. Various savage
tales, which needed a good deal of editing, are derived from the learned
pages of the 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute.' With these
exceptions, and 'The Magic Book,' translated by Mrs. Pedersen, from
'Eventyr fra Jylland,' by Mr. Ewald Tang Kristensen (Stories from
Jutland), all the tales have been done, from various sources, by Mrs.
Lang, who has modified, where it seemed desirable, all the narratives.

CONTENTS

The Story of the Hero Makoma The Magic Mirror Story of the King who
would see Paradise How Isuro the Rabbit tricked Gudu Ian, the Soldier's
Son The Fox and the Wolf How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon The Ugly
Duckling The Two Caskets The Goldsmith's Fortune The Enchanted Wreath
The Foolish Weaver The Clever Cat The Story of Manus Pinkel the Thief
The Adventures of a Jackal The Adventures of the Jachal's Eldest Son The
Adventures of the Younger Son of the Jackal The Three Treasures of the
Giants The Rover of the Plain The White Doe The Girl Fish The Owl
and the Eagle The Frog and the Lion Fairy The Adventures of Covan the
Brown-haired The Princess Bella-Flor The Bird of Truth The Mink and the
Wolf Adventures of an Indian Brave How the Stalos were Tricked Andras
Baive The White Slipper The Magic Book

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