Tales for Children From Many Lands (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales for Children From Many Lands In some cases, north-country and other friends have helped me to find new versions of old favourites likechildren feel for their favourites; and so the literary touches added by some earlier collectors have been got rid of here, and the simpler colours of folk-lore and nursery-lore restored. That old favourite, Jack the giant-killer, has been included in a version collated by Mrs. Grace Rhys from sundry old chap-books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.