“Jack the Giant-killer” is reprinted from “English Fairy Tales,” collected by Joseph Jacobs, published by David Nutt; “The Battle of the Birds” from J. F. Campbell's “Popular Tales of the West Highlands”; “Lludd and Llevelys” from Lady Charlotte Guest's version of the “Mabinogion”; “Guleesh” from Dr. Douglas Hyde's “Beside the Fire.” “The Sleeping Beauty” is translated from the French of Perrault by Mr. S. R. Littlewood; “Cesarino and the Dragon” is from vol. ii of Mr. G. W. Waters' “The Nights of Straparola” published by Sidgwick & Jackson; “What came of picking Flowers” from A. Lang's “Grey Fairy Book” The three Japanese stories are from Lord Redesdale's “Tales of Old Japan” “Frost” is from Ralston's “Russian Folk-Tales.” “The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens” is from “Serbian Folk-Lore” selected and translated by Madame Mijatovics. “The Last Adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel” has been translated for the present volume from the romance of Charles de Coster.
