Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 165
his Series are in the first trainingof children, their whole effort has been bent to gather from every knownsource the fine things of prose and verse which will lay sure foundationsof literary appreciation in every young reader. The fairy tales, for instance,were chosen after reading 20,000 fairy… … C. From ^Esop and La Fon-taine to the almost unknownfables of India the authorshave gone for some hundredsof the short tales in whichbirds and beasts convey pith-ily the wisdom of the ages.No child can resist the formof the fable — the talking;crow, the outwitted fox andall the rest; and the result…
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