The fables of La Fontaine . h month, and the subjects specified inparagraph 2 will follow each other in succession. As soon as a sufficient number of works on one subject areissued, they will be collected and published in volumes, but for the convenience of those who prefer to purchase thenumbers, covers for the volumes will be sold at such a price that the cost in both cases will be the same. LONDON: INGRAM COOKE, & CO., 227 STRAND. peacidified using the Bookkeeper agent: Magnesium OxideTreatment Date: Jan. 2008 PreservationTechnologies A WORLD LEADER IN COLLECTIONS PRESE
The fables of La Fontaine . h month, and the subjects specified inparagraph 2 will follow each other in succession. As soon as a sufficient number of works on one subject areissued, they will be collected and published in volumes, but for the convenience of those who prefer to purchase thenumbers, covers for the volumes will be sold at such a price that the cost in both cases will be the same. LONDON: INGRAM COOKE, & CO., 227 STRAND. peacidified using the Bookkeeper agent: Magnesium OxideTreatment Date: Jan. 2008 PreservationTechnologies A WORLD LEADER IN COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION 111 Thomson Park DriveCranberry Township, PA 16066(724)779-2111. The Dairy Woman. LONDONi INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO. 227, STRAND. 1853. \ \ \ S>\\> ^ ^v ^ >V L. Shoemaker7 S 06 THE FABLES ©F LA FONTAINE TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, By ELIZUR WRIGHT, June. VOL. I. 119 INTKODTJCTION. This elegant translation of the most famous fabulist of modern times (if we may-be allowed to call tbe seventeenth century modern), is the work of an Americanauthor, who has admirably succeeded in embodying both the spirit, the grace, andthe vivacity of the original in the translation. As Fables have interested and instructed mankind in every age, and as the Fablesof La Fontaine may be said to be the standard collection of modern times, thistranslation has been considered as a most appropriate addition to the UniversalLibrary. London, February, 120 A PREFACE ON FABLE, THE FABULISTS, AND LA FONTAINE, BY THE TRANSLATOR. Human nature, when fresh from the hand of God,was full of poetry. Its sociality could not be pentwithin the bounds of the actual. To th
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