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1. ENGLISH FAIRY TALES 2. MORE ENGLISH FAIRY TALES 3. CELTIC FAIRY TALES 4. MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES 5. INDIAN FAIRY TALES 6. EUROPA'S FAIRY TALES

Collected and Edited by Joseph Jacobs, President of th English Folk-Lore Society. Pictured by JOHN D. BATTEN. Each beautifully printed and bound. Crown octavo

The popularity of this series has been so great that the publishers have felt warranted in making an entirely new set of electrotype plates. Mr. Batten's charming and original designs are all preserved.

"One need not be a specialist in order to discover the scholarship which M. Jacobs has lavished on these volumes of his, in their short prefaces, and in their abundant notes and references, nor need one care much for art in the abstract in order to thoroughly enjoy Mr. Batten's imaginative illustrations. A folk-lorist himself, Mr. Batten has caught the spirit of his text, whether it be lovely, as for the most part it is, or grim and grotesque, as it i* now and then." Mail and

CHINESE FAIRY TALES Forty Stories Told by Almond-Eyed Folk. By ADELK M. FIILDB. Illustrated by Chinese Artists. Crown octavo C. P. Putnam's SOAS *f*u> York and Londo*