A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

          1902. Last Fairy Tales, also by Laboulaye.

          Tales, by Zenaide Fleuriot. (What should be
          included?)

          1910. Chantecler, by Edmund Rostand.  Translated
          by Gertrude Hall, published by Duffield.

          1911. The Honey Bee, by Anatole France;
          translated by Mrs. Lane; published by Lane.

          1911. The Blue-Bird, by Maurice Maeterlinck;
          published by Dodd.

In Great Britain many old tales taken from tradition were included in the Welsh Mabinogion, Irish sagas, and Cornish Mabinogion.  Legends of Brittany were made known by the poems of Marie de France, who lived in the thirteenth century.  These were published in Paris, in 1820.  In fact, most of the early publications of fairy tales were taken from the French.

Celtic tales have been collected in modern times in a greater number than those of any nation.  This has been due largely to the work of J.F.  Campbell.  Celtic tales are unusual in that they have been collected while the custom of story-telling is yet flourishing among the Folk.  They are therefore of great literary and imaginative interest.  They are especially valuable as the oldest of the European tales.  The Irish tale of Connla and the Fairy Maiden has been traced to a date earlier than the fifth century and therefore ranks as the oldest tale of modern Europe.  The principal Celtic collections are:—­

     Iolo M. S., published by the Welsh M. S. Society.

     Mabinogion, translated by Lady Guest. (Contains tales
       that trace back to the twelfth century.)

     Y Cymrodor, by Professor Rhys.

     1825. Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of
     Ireland
, by T. Crofton Croker.

     1842. Popular Rhymes of Scotland.  Chambers.

     1860-62. Popular Tales of the West Highlands, by J.F. 
     Campbell.

     Tales, collected and published with notes, by Mr. Alfred
      Nutt.

     1866.  By Patrick Kennedy, the Irish Grimm. Legendary
     Fictions of the Irish Celts; Fireside Stories of Ireland

     (1870); and Bardic Stories of Ireland (1871).

In England the publication of fairy tales may be followed more readily because the language proves no hindrance and the literature gives assistance.  In England the principal publications of fairy tales were:—­

     1604. Pasquil’s Jests.  Contained a tale similar to one of
     Grimm’s.

     1635. A Tract, A Descryption of the Kynge and Quene of
     Fairies, their habit, fare, abode, pomp, and state
.

     Eighteenth century (early). Madame D’Aulnoy’s Tales, a
     translation.

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