Never-Grow-Old-Stories Retold from Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Never-Grow-Old-Stories Retold from Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Edwin Osgood Grover

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Billinghurst, Percy J.

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:46Z

en_US 1998-12

en_US 1925

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1925

Abstract

en_US This book contains thirty-eight of the best stories told for very little boys and girls who like cats and dogs, and lions and bears (at a proper distance), and who never tire of watching them or reading about their wise and otherwise actions (Introduction by Grover, 7). There is a T of C at the beginning. These are pleasant tellings for little children. At the end of their story the fox and stork shook hands and parted as good friends as ever (25). Grover starts DM with a long examination of the dog's envy over the horses' living conditions (39). The fox actually enters the door after the doorman dog opens it for him (45)! There is a tendency here to lighten the impact of a fable. Thus the crow outwitted by another into dropping his mussel onto rocks only for the other crow to eat it consoles himself that the eater will not enjoy eating when he remembers what a mean trick he played on me to get it (61). And the fox without a tail was a brave Fox to try to make the best of his misfortune (17). The fox and goat jump into the well together for a drink (73). The talkative approach to stories may backfire slightly when we read that the frogs asked for a king because they did not like so much liberty and freedom (81). In the next paragraph they are talking of the court balls, parties, and good times they could have with a king. Mercury actually cuts the camel's ears off--or at least down to small size (101). FG is told as an aetiological tale (105). The fox takes over the wolf's den with impunity after the farmer does away with the wolf (113). Both copies have a misprint Boer on 131. The contrast between room and company in The Sow and the Wolf (137) is in Croxall and thus in many others. The very last fable, The Cat and the Mice (141), is new to me. The cat seems to sleep and so catches a newly arrived mouse. The extra copy shows more signs of age and has different colors on its covers and endpapers and in its good Billinghurst illustrations. These seem to have two or three colors (brown, tan, and orange) besides black and white. I recognize them as standard Billinghurst; at least here he is acknowledged!

Identifier

en_US 3352 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78730

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Lyons & Carnahan

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.G86 Ne 1925

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole