One by One: A Child's Book of Tales and Fables, With Fifty Illustrations

Title

en_US One by One: A Child's Book of Tales and Fables, With Fifty Illustrations

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By H.W. Dulcken

Creator

en_US Dulcken, H.W.

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:51Z

en_US 1998-12

en_US 1880?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1880

Abstract

en_US Here are fifty-four stories including some of the most didactic and saccharine I have seen in a while! These stories are well calculated to make little children into obedient little parent-lovers with all the other virtues. I have read the first ten and find them strong on conscience and obedience. The first story gives a clue. Lina's bird dies and she cries hard--and even harder when mother buys her a new bird. Lina ate the sugar meant for the bird. Mother does not smile, for she reverences the holy voice of conscience in the heart of the child (2). Then mother says Ah, such must be the feelings of an ungrateful child at the grave of its parents. Take that, all you ungrateful children! I found one story in the ten that belongs in a good fable collection. The Falcon and the Hen is a typical fable-argument (16). The falcon chides the hen for running away every time humans come near. The hen answers that the falcon has never seen a falcon on a roasting-spit, whereas the hen has seen fowls cooked with every kind of sauce. A straight telling of DW is on 110, and a good version of The Unjust Judge on 111. The book includes a straight version of Aesop Playing (68) and a story, new to me, of Aesop beaten and thrust out into the desert (113). Expected to take his life, he tells instead the story of Death and the Woodcutter. The story carries on praising Aesop's contentment even through the death process in Delphi. There may be more good material here; I just cannot bear to search it out! The illustrations are as sentimental as most of the texts. This book has beautiful gold-embossed red covers. Its spine is deteriorating.

Identifier

en_US 4126 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79450

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Routledge and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN6110.C4 D852 1880

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole