The Junior Classics, vol 1 | Page 6

Beauty Charles Perrault
The Fair One With Golden Locks Miss Mulock
Beauty and the Beast Mme. d'AuLnoy
Jack and the Beanstalk Anonymous
Hop-o'-My-Thumb Joseph Jacobs
The Goose-Girl Anonymous
He Who Knew Not Fear Anonymous
THE FABLES OF AESOP
The Town Mouse and the
Country Mouse Aesop
The Man, Boy, and Donkey Aesop
The Shepherd's Boy Aesop
Androcles Aesop
The Fox and the Stork Aesop
The Crow and the Pitcher Aesop
The Frogs Desiring a King Aesop

The Frog and the Ox Aesop
The Cock and the Pearl Aesop
The Fox Without a Tail Aesop
The Fox and the Cat Aesop
The Dog in the Manger Aesop
The Fox and the Goat Aesop
Belling the Cat Aesop
The Jay and the Peacock Aesop
The Ass and the Lap-Dog Aesop
The Ant and the Grasshopper Aesop
The Woodman and the Serpent Aesop
The Milkmaid and Her Pail Aesop
The Lion and the Mouse Aesop
Hercules and the Waggoner Aesop
The Lion's Share Aesop
The Fox and the Crow Aesop
The Dog and the Shadow Aesop
The Wolf and the Lamb Aesop
The Bat, Birds, and Beasts Aesop
The Belly and the Members Aesop

The Fox and the Grapes Aesop
The Swallow and the Birds Aesop
ILLUSTRATIONS
HE OFTEN TREMBLED AT WHAT HE HEARD AND SAW,
Manabozho the Mischief- Maker, Frontispiece illustration in color from
the painting by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
WHILE THEY WERE STUPIDLY STARING, THE KETTLE
BEGAN FLYING ABOUT THE ROOM, The Accomplished and
Lucky Teakettle, From the painting by Warwick Goble
A VERY OLD WOMAN, WALKING UPON CRUTCHES, CAME
OUT, Hansel and Grethel, >From the painting by Arthur Rackham
THEN BLUE BEARD BAWLED OUT SO LOUD THAT HE MADE
THE WHOLE HOUSE TREMBLE, Blue Beard, From the painting by
Edmund Dulac
BEING INFORMED OF EVERYTHING BY A LITTLE DWARF
WHO WORE SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS, Sleeping Beauty, From the
painting by Edmund Dulac
PREFACE
THERE are some things in this world we can get along without, but,
the experience of many thousand years has shown us that the fairy tale
is not one of them. There must have been fairy tales (or fables, or folk
tales, or myths, or whatever name we choose to give them) ever since
the world began. They are not exclusively French, German, Greek,
Russian, Indian or Chinese, but are the common property of the whole
human family and are as universal as human speech.
All the world over, fairy tales are found to be pretty much the same.
The story of Cinderella is found in all countries. Japan has a Rip Van
Winkle, China has a Beauty and the Beast, Egypt has a Puss in Boots,

and Persia has a Jack and the Beanstalk.
Those wise people who have made a careful study of literature, and
especially of what we call folk tales or fairy tales or fables or myths,
tell us that they all typify in some way the constant struggle that is
going on in every department of life. It may be the struggle of Summer
against Winter, the bright Day against dark Night, Innocence against
Cruelty, of Knowledge against Ignorance. We are not obliged to think
of these delightful stories as each having a meaning. Our enjoyment of
them will not be less if we overlook that side, but it may help us to
understand and appreciate good books if we remember that the
literature of the world is the story of man's struggle against nature; that
the beginnings of literature came out of the mouths of story- tellers, and
that the stories they told were fairy tales-imaginative stories based on
truth.
There is one important fact to remember in connection with the old
fairy tales, and that is that they were repeated aloud from memory, not
read from a book or manuscript.
The printing of books from type may be said to date from the year 1470,
when Caxton introduced printing into England. It is said that the first
book printed in English which had the pages numbered was a book of
tales, "Aesop's Fables."
As late as 1600 printed books were still so rare that only rich men could
own them. There was one other way of printing a story-on sheepskin
(split and made into parchment) with a pen-but that was a long and
laborious art that could only be practiced by educated men who had
been taught to write. The monks were about the only men who had the
necessary education and time, and they cared more for making copies
of the Bible and Lives of the Saints than they did of fairy tales. The
common people, and even kings and queens, were therefore obliged to
depend upon the professional story-teller.
Fairy tales were very popular in the Middle Ages. In the long winter
months fields could not be cultivated, traveling had to be