Fifty Fables for The Young Folks, Metrically Translated from the German of Julius Sturm, With a Few Fables from Aesop (cover: Fifty Fables for Children)

Title
en_US Fifty Fables for The Young Folks, Metrically Translated from the German of Julius Sturm, With a Few Fables from Aesop (cover: Fifty Fables for Children)
en_US Fine Art Series
Description
en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
en_US Told by Margaret Hughes
Creator
en_US Sturm, Julius
Date
2016-01-25T16:30:54Z
en_US 1999-05
en_US 1896
Date Available
2016-01-25T16:30:54Z
Date Issued
en_US 1896
Abstract
en_US Sturm is new to me. The Aesopic fables (these and a few others are in prose) are identified as such under their titles, and reference is made where appropriate to one of the six colored illustrations. Each verse fable gets an engraving; they are signed Alinzen, FFlinzen, or something similar. The new fables feature generally predictable pairings of animals: thus a patient cat kills an impatient snake; a rusty weather cock no longer turns with every wind; the traveler who pays no attention to barking dogs is soon rid of them; and a dog cannot overcome a patient hedgehog's defenses. Several fables recognizably Aesopic are done in verse: DM; The Three Oxen (in which it is the fox's role to divide the oxen, whereupon the lion devours them); The Horse and the Ass; and The Donkey and the Lion. FM is told differently, without reference to water. The mouse is ready to carry the frog overland by a string tied to both when a hawk swoops in. As the string breaks, the hawk catches the frog and eats him. My favorites include the fox who plays the hermit; when people come to him, he prays these words: mundus vult decipi. His visitors say 'Tis Latin, we are blest and bring him offerings! Another is The Wolf's Vow. Caught by a farmer, a wolf vows henceforth to eat only fish. He promptly hears a pig in a pool and declares Whatever swishes/In the water must be fishes. Six excellent, rich chromolithographs: The Lion, the Fox, and the Dead Ass; WL; The Fox and the Woodcutter; FC; TB; and WC. I am sure that I have seen these chromolithographs before, but I cannot find them among the 14 other editions I have catalogued from Donohue. The TB illustration includes a bear and a cub. Unpaginated. ©1896 by Koerner & Hayes. Since all three copies are in fragile condition, I will keep them all in the collection with the same ID number.
Identifier
en_US 3386 (Access ID)
uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78761
Language
en_US eng
Publisher
en_US Donohue Henneberry & Co.,
en_US Chicago, IL
Subject
en_US PZ34.2 .S77 1896
en_US Julius Sturm
en_US Title Page Scanned
Type
en_US Book, Whole
Item sets
Carlson Fable Collection Books