The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia, ' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied

A collection of several short fairy tales by the noted Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist Andrew Lang. These tales are first English translations of fairy tales from many different languages. This volume was published in a colour-coded manner with brown at the background of each of the pages. He published around 25 such volumes with different colour codes for each. These volumes got immensely popular at that pont of time.

Fairy tales and stories of the 'Arabian Nights' order are not often attempted by modern imaginations, but collections of the old legends are perennially popular. Mr. Andrew Lang has not yet exhausted the supply of these last, although he has to go to countries more and more remote for every new year's gleanings. For the material in his latest volume, ' The Brown Fairy Book ', he has searched the folk lore of the red Indians, the black Australians, the African Kaffirs, and the natives of Brazil and New Caledonia. Besides these, there are some tales of moment from the French and Persian, some of them being specially translated for this work. The beautiful illustrations in color are the work of Mr. Henry Ford. This book is fully illustrated and annotated with a rare extensive biographical sketch of the author, Andrew Lang, written by Sir Edmund Gosse, CB, a contemporary poet and writer. Contents: What The Rose Did To The Cypress Ball-Carrier And The Bad One How Ball-Carrier Finished His Task The Bunyip Father Grumbler The Story Of The Yara The Cunning Hare The Turtle And His Bride How Geirald The Coward Was Punished Hábogi How The Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers The Sacred Milk Of Koumongoé The Wicked Wolverine The Husband Of The Rat’s Daughter The Mermaid And The Boy Pivi And Kabo The Elf Maiden How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones Fortune And The Wood-Cutter The Enchanted Head The Sister Of The Sun The Prince And The Three Fates The Fox And The Lapp Kisa The Cat The Lion And The Cat Which Was The Foolishest? Asmund And Signy Rübezahl Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate Story Of Wali Dâd The Simple-Hearted Tale Of A Tortoise And Of A Mischievous Monkey The Knights Of The Fish

This collection of Fairy stories by Andrew Lang features tales from very far afield, including Iceland, Egypt and North America. Lang tells the stories in a simple yet engaging way and it is interesting to see how stories from places very far apart can be very similar.

A collection of fairy tales.

Folk tales from Australia, Africa, Persia and other places.

Brown Fairy Book (1904) * What the Rose did to the Cypress * Ball-Carrier and the Bad One * How Ball-Carrier finished his Task * The Bunyip * Father Grumbler * The Story of the Yara * The Cunning Hare * The Turtle and his Bride * How Geirald the Coward was Punished * Habogi * How the Little Brother set Free his Big Brothers * The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe * The Wicked Wolverine * The Husband of the Rat's Daughter * The Mermaid and the Boy * Pivi and Kabo * The Elf Maiden * How Some Wild Animals became Tame Ones * Fortune and the Wood-Cutter * The Enchanted Head * The Sister of the Sun * The Prince and the Three Fates * The Fox and the Lapp * Kisa the Cat * The Lion and the Cat * Which was the Foolishest? * Asmund and Signy * Rubezahl * Story of the King who would be Stronger than Fate * Story of Wali Dad the Simple-hearted * Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey * The Knights of the Fish