The crimson fairy book . FAIEY BOOK THE FAIRY BOOK SERIES. EDITED BY ANDREW LANG. Crown Svo. gilt edges, 65. each. THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK. With 138 Illustrations. THE RED FAIRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations. THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. With 99 Illustrations. THE GREY FAIRY BOOK. With 65 Illustrations. THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK. With 104 Illustra-tions. THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. With 67 VIOLET FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and 54 other Illustrations. THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and 43 other Illustrations. THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. With 100 TRUE STORY BOOK. W
The crimson fairy book . FAIEY BOOK THE FAIRY BOOK SERIES. EDITED BY ANDREW LANG. Crown Svo. gilt edges, 65. each. THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK. With 138 Illustrations. THE RED FAIRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations. THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. With 99 Illustrations. THE GREY FAIRY BOOK. With 65 Illustrations. THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK. With 104 Illustra-tions. THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. With 67 VIOLET FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and 54 other Illustrations. THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and 43 other Illustrations. THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. With 100 TRUE STORY BOOK. With 66 RED TRUE STORY BOOK. With 100 Illus- tratious. THE ANIMAL STORY BOOK. With 67 Illustrations. THE RED BOOK OF ANIMAL STORIES. With 65 Illustrations. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. With 66 Illustrations. THE BOOK OF ROMANCE. With 8 Coloured Plates and 44 other Illustrations. LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 39 Paternoster Row, London,New York and Bombay. THE Crimson Fairy Book EDITED BY ANDEEW LANG. WITH EIGHT COLOURED PLATESAND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. J. FORD LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 1903 All rights reserved or PR EF A G E Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor,and these introductions are inevitably both monotonousand unavailing. A sense of literary honesty compels theEditor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and notthe author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguishedman of science is only the Editor, not the Author ofNature. Like nature, popular tales are too vast to bethe creation of a single modern mind. The Editorsbusiness is to hunt for collections of these stories toldby peasant or savage grandmothers in many climes, fromNew Caledonia to Zululand; from the frozen snowsof the Polar regions to Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or farLochaber. When the tales are found they are adaptedto the needs of British children by various hands, theEditor doing little beyond guarding the interests ofprop
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