Excerpt from Folk and Fairy Tales From Many Lands
The first adjective of our title also needs a similar exten sion of its meaning. I have acted on Moliere's principle, and have taken what was good wherever I could find it. Thus, a couple of these stories have been found among descendants of English immigrants in America; a couple of others I tell as I heard them myself in my youth in Australia. One of the best was taken down from the mouth of an English Gipsy. I have also included some stories that have only been found in Lowland Scotch. I have felt justified in doing this, as of the twenty-one folk tales contained in Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scot land, no less than sixteen are also to be found in an English form. With the Folk-tale as with the Ballad.
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| ISBN: | 9781440067303 |
| Publication date: | 23rd April 2018 |
| Author: | L Frank Baum |
| Publisher: | Forgotten Books an imprint of Fb&c Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |