Yellow Fairy Book

The Yellow Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

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The Yellow Fairy Book

 

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

 

 

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The Yellow Fairy Book

 

Andrew Lang Editor Andrew Lang

     1st Edition

 

Longmans, Green, and Co.

 

London, New York

 

1894

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Published: 1894

 

 

 

English fiction; prose Young Readers LCSH H. J. Ford illustration 24-bit color; 400 dpi. Revisions to the electronic version
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    THE SWINEHERD TAKES TEN KISSES.


          THE
    YELLOW FAIRY BOOK

    Edited by
    ANDREW LANG

    With Numerous Illustrations by H. J. Ford

    McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY
    New York Toronto London Sydney

    Published in Canada by General Publishing
    Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto,
    Ontario.

    Published in the United Kingdom by Constable
    and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London
    WC 2.

    Published in the United States of America by
    Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick Street, New
    York 10014 in 1966 in paperback.


    First hardcover publication of the Dover Edition
    by McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1967.

    This edition is an unabridged and unaltered
    republication of the work originally published by
    Longmans, Green and Co., London, in 1894.


    Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-24132

    Manufactured in the United States of America

    Dedication

          TO
    JOAN, TODDLES, AND TINY



    Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue,
    All true, or just as good as true,
    And here's the Yellow Book for you!


    Hard is the path from A to Z,
    And puzzling to a curly head,
    Yet leads to Books -- Green, Blue, and Red


    For every child should understand
    That letters from the first were planned
    To guide us into Fairy Land


    So labour at your Alphabet,
    For by that learning shall you get
    To lands where Fairies may be met.


    And going where this pathway goes,
    You too, at last, may find, who knows?
    The Garden of the Singing Rose.


    -ix-


    PREFACE

          THE Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say. Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers. He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society. Once a year he makes his address to his subjects, of whom the Editor is one, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (who has published many delightful fairy tales with pretty pictures)1 is another. Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr.