Grimm's Household Tales (Edwardes)

Grimm's Household Tales by Brothers Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes

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GRIMM'S

HOUSEHOLD

TALES

EDITED & PARTLY
TRANSLATED ANEW
BY
MARIAN EDWARDES

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY

R. ANNING BELL

1912
LONDON
J. M. DENT & SONS Ltd
NEW YORK
E.P. DUTTON & Co.

Preface.

There is no need of many words in introducing the old familiar friends of fairy-land, who never fail of a welcome from those, not yet too old to feel the power of their fascination. The following collection of tales has been made in the assurance that, among the younger readers for whom they are intended, the genuine fairy tale is still without a rival, as a source of interest and amusement; as a source of instruction also, might with truth be added, for, apart from the homely wisdom which underlies most fairy tales, there is in several of them a touch of the fable, which, of all forms, is the most acceptable and convincing for the transmittance of moral teaching. The tales from the "Gammer Grethel" series, are given in the version, published in the "Bohn Library" from the admirable translation by Mr Edgar Taylor, which has, for many years past, delighted its readers; the tales from the "Kinder und Hans-Märchen" have been newly translated.

As much variety as possible has been put into the choice of tales, selection for the most part falling on those which are known to be universally acknowledged as favourites; and as such, it is the hope of the Editor, they may continue, under the new garb in which he now presents them to his young friends.

EDITOR.

Contents

	PAGE
The Golden Goose	1
The Wishing Table, The Gold Ass, and The Cudgel	8
The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage	24
The Fox's Brush	27
The Fisherman and his Wife	39
The Twelve Brothers	47
Briar Rose	56
The Raven	65
Fritz and his Friends	73
The Elfin Grove	79
Bearskin	87
The Jew in the Bush	95
The Robber Bridegroom	101
Ashputtel	107
The Three Spinning Fairies	118
Rumpel-Stilts-Ken	122
Madam Holle	126
The Nose-Tree	131
The Goose Girl	141
King Grizzle-Beard	151
The Man in the Bag	158
The Forbidden Room	163
Karl Katz	169
The Changeling	177
Hans in Luck	178
The Bear and the Skrattel	186
Tom Thumb	198
Snow-Drop	206
The Four Crafts-Men	216
Cat-skin	224
Jorinda and Jorindel	233
Thumbling the Dwarf and Thumbling the Giant	238
The Juniper Tree	246
The Water of Life	258
The Blue Light	267
The Water Fairy	273
The Three Crows	283
The Frog-Prince	288
The Elves and the Cobbler	292
Cherry the Frog-Bride	295
The Dancing Shoes	305
The Brave Little Tailor	311
Giant Golden-Beard	319
Pee-Wit	327
Hansel and Grethel	333
Lily and the Lion	345
Donkey-Wort	355
The King of the Golden Mountain	364
The Two Brothers	373

List of Illustrations

PAGE
Lily and the Lion .... Frontispiece
Headpiece—Preface . . .vii
Tailpiece—Preface .....viii
Headpiece—Contents ....ix
Tailpiece—Contents ....xi
Headpiece—List of Illustrations xiii
Headpiece—The Golden Go1ose .... 1
The Golden Goose ..... 3
Tailpiece—The Golden Goose .... 7
Headpiece—The Wishing Table, the Gold Ass, and The Cudgel 8
The Wishing Table, the Gold Ass, and the Cudgel 15
Headpiece The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage 24
Headpiece The Fox's Brush 27
The Princess going to the Bath 33
Tailpiece The Fox's Brush 38

PAGE
Headpiece The Fisherman and his Wife . . . 29
Tailpiece The Fisherman and his Wife . . , 46
Headpiece The Twelve Brothers . . . .47
The Princess on the branches of a tree . . . 53
Tailpiece The Twelve Brothers .... 55
Headpiece Briar Rose ..... 56
Briar Rose ...... 60
The Prince . . . . . . 6 1
Headpiece The Raven ..... 65
The Princess in the Castle . . . .72
Headpiece Fritz and his Friends . . . 73
Tailpiece Fritz and his Friends . . . 7 8
Headpiece The Elfin Grove . . . .79
Headpiece Bearskin . . . . .87
Bearskin and the Devil . . . . .92
Headpiece The Jeiv in the Bush ... 95
The Jeiv in the Bush . . . . .97
Headpiece The Robber Bridegroom . . . To I
Tailpiece The Robber Bridegroom . Io6
Headpiece Asbputtel . . . . 1 07
Ashputtel . . . . .113
Headpiece The Three Spinning Fairies . . 1 1 8
Headpiece Rumpel-Stilts-Ken . . . .122
Headpiece Madam Holle . .. . 126
Tailpiece Madam Holle . . . . 1 30
Headpiece The Nose Tree . .131
The Princess and the Soldier . . . .135
Headpiece The Goose Girl . . . .141
The true Princess and Curdken . . , .147

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