. The book of romance; . $ THE RED FAIRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations. $ THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. With 99 Illustrations. $ THE GREY FAIRY BOOK. With 65 Illustrations. $ THE YELLOW FAIEY BOOK. With 104 lUustrations. $ THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. With 67 Illustrations. $ THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and 54other Illustrations. Net, $ By mail, $ THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and43 other Illustrations. Net, $ By mail, $ THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations. $ THE TRUE STORY BOOK. With 66 Illustrations. $ THE
. The book of romance; . $ THE RED FAIRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations. $ THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK. With 99 Illustrations. $ THE GREY FAIRY BOOK. With 65 Illustrations. $ THE YELLOW FAIEY BOOK. With 104 lUustrations. $ THE PINK FAIRY BOOK. With 67 Illustrations. $ THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and 54other Illustrations. Net, $ By mail, $ THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK. With 8 Coloured Plates and43 other Illustrations. Net, $ By mail, $ THE BLUE POETRY BOOK. With 100 Illustrations. $ THE TRUE STORY BOOK. With 66 Illustrations. $ THE RED TRUE STORY BOOK. With 100 Illustriitions.$ THE ANIMAL STORY BOOK. With 67 Hlustrations. $ THE RED BOOK OF ANIMAL STORIES. With 65 Illus-trations. $ THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS. With 66Illustrations. $ THE BOOK OF ROMANCE. With S Coloured Plates and 44other Illustrations. Net, $ By mail, $ LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO. New Yurk London Bclmbay THE BOOK OF ROMANCE EDITED BY ANDREW LANG. WITH I^UMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY U. J. FORD LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 AND 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK LONDON AND BOMBAY 1903 All rights reserved THE NEW YORK PU^ I^ IPRARY ASTOR LENOX AND •TILOEN FOUNDATIONSO I- . * ♦*. .Ccfe-raiGHT, 19(^, LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND c6. First Edition, September, 1902, t,c Reprinted, October, 1903. c NorhjoDlj Jlrrss J. S. Gushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith Co. >orwood, Mass., G274410 - PREFACE It is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces;these are Bluebeards rooms, which they are not curiousto unlock. A few words may therefore be said about theRomances contained in this book. In the editors opinion,romances are only fairy tales grown up. The whole massof the plot and incident of romance was invented bynobody knows who, nobody knows when, nobody knowswhere. Almost every people has the Cinderella story,w4th all sorts of variations: a boy hero in place of a girlheroine, a beast in place of a fairy godmother, and so on
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