# Little Ellie and Other Tales

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FRANCIS & CO.’S
LITTLE LIBRARY:
FOR YOUNG PERSONS OF VARIOUS AGES.
LITTLE ELLIE,
AND OTHER TALES.
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
Francis & Co.’s Little Library.
C. S. Francis & Co., New York, have published a uniform Series of Choice volumes for Young People, by some of the most distinguished writers for Children. Neatly bound in cloth, and illus. trated by Engravings.
L. MARIA CHILD.—Flowers for Children: No. 1, for Children eight or nine years old. ———Flowers for Children: No. 2, for Children three or four years old. ———Flowers for Children: No. 3, for Children eleven or twelve years old. MARY HOWITT.—Fireside Tales. ———The Christmas Tree: A Book of Stories. ———The Turtle Dove of Carmel; and other Stories. ———The Favorite Scholar; Little Chatterbox; Perseverance, and other Tales. By Mary Howitt, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and others. MRS. TRIMMER.—The Robbins; Or Domestic Life Among the Birds. Designed for the Instruction of Children respecting their Treatment of Animals. MISS LESLIE.—Russel and Sidney and Chase Loring: Tales of the American Revolution. MRS. CAROLINE GILMAN.—The Little Wreath of Stories and Poems for Children. ———Stories and Poems for Children. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.—A Christmas Greeting: Thirteen New Stories from the Danish of Hans Christian Andersen. ———A Picture Book Without Pictures; and other Stories: by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Howitt, with a Memoir of the Author. ———A Danish Story Book. CLAUDINE; Or Humility the Basis of All the Virtues. A Swiss Tale. By a Mother; author of “Always Happy,” “True Stories from History,” &c. FACTS TO CORRECT FANCIES; or Short Narratives compiled from the Memoirs of Remarkable Women. By a Mother. HOLIDAY STORIES. Containing five Moral Tales. MRS HOFLAND.—The History of an Officer’s Widow, and her Young Family. ———The Clergyman’s Widow, and her Young Family. ———The Merchant’s Widow, and her Young Family. MISS ABBOT.—Kate and Lizzie; Or Sıx Months Out of School. MISS ELIZA ROBBINS.—Classic Tales. Designed for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons. By the author of “American Popular Lessons,” &c. MRS. S. C. HALL.—Turns of Fortune ; All Is Not Gold That Glitters, &C. ———The Private Purse; Cleverness, and other Tales.
LITTLE ELLIE,
And other Tales.
BY
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
NEW YORK: C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.
BOSTON: J. H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON STREET. 1850.
Contents.
| Little Ellie | 7 |
| The Tinder-Box | 34 |
| The Wicked King | 53 |
| The Resolute Leaden Soldier | 60 |
| The Garden of Paradise | 71 |
| The Sheperdess and the Chimney-Sweep | 105 |
| Little Ida’s Flowers | 117 |
| The Daisy | 136 |
| New Year’s Eve | 146 |
Francis & Co.’s Little Library.
C. S. Francis & Co., New York, have published a uniform Series of Choice volumes for Young People, by some of the most distinguished writers for Children. Neatly bound in cloth, and illus. trated by Engravings.
L. MARIA CHILD.—Flowers for Children: No. 1, for Children eight or nine years old. ———Flowers for Children: No. 2, for Children three or four years old. ———Flowers for Children: No. 3, for Children eleven or twelve years old. MARY HOWITT.—Fireside Tales. ———The Christmas Tree: A Book of Stories. ———The Turtle Dove of Carmel; and other Stories. ———The Favorite Scholar; Little Chatterbox; Perseverance, and other Tales. By Mary Howitt, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and others. MRS. TRIMMER.—The Robbins; Or Domestic Life Among the Birds. Designed for the Instruction of Children respecting their Treatment of Animals. MISS LESLIE.—Russel and Sidney and Chase Loring: Tales of the American Revolution. MRS. CAROLINE GILMAN.—The Little Wreath of Stories and Poems for Children. ———Stories and Poems for Children. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.—A Christmas Greeting: Thirteen New Stories from the Danish of Hans Christian Andersen. ———A Picture Book Without Pictures; and other Stories: by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Howitt, with a Memoir of the Author. ———A Danish Story Book. CLAUDINE; Or Humility the Basis of All the Virtues. A Swiss Tale. By a Mother; author of “Always Happy,” “True Stories from History,” &c. FACTS TO CORRECT FANCIES; or Short Narratives compiled from the Memoirs of Remarkable Women. By a Mother. HOLIDAY STORIES. Containing five Moral Tales. MRS HOFLAND.—The History of an Officer’s Widow, and her Young Family. ———The Clergyman’s Widow, and her Young Family. ———The Merchant’s Widow, and her Young Family. MISS ABBOT.—Kate and Lizzie; Or Sıx Months Out of School. MISS ELIZA ROBBINS.—Classic Tales. Designed for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons. By the author of “American Popular Lessons,” &c. MRS. S. C. HALL.—Turns of Fortune ; All Is Not Gold That Glitters, &C. ———The Private Purse; Cleverness, and other Tales.
Interesting Games.
THE PICKWICK CARDS,
Invented by Samuel Weller, for the Entertainment of his Friends, Old and Young.
Twenty-five Cards, enclosed in a neat case; each card having on its scene or character from the writings of Dickens; with directions for playing three different games, for the amusement of evening parties. Price 50 cents.
SHAKSPERE IN A NEW DRESS.
Thirty Cards, containing fifty-two choice quotations from Shakspere, with a list of questions, to be answered from the cards. So arranged as to form an interesting round game, with forfeits. Price 50 cents.
NEW FORTUNE-TELLER.
THE ORACLE OF FORTUNE, and Guide to Wealth and Success.
“These interesting Cards combine all the information necessary to secure Wealth, and Success in matters of Love or Money; they are constructed on the principles which the late Baron Rothschild found so eminently successful, and combine the requisite mixture of shrewd suggestions, wise calculations, and cautious admonitions, to direct any one in the way to good luck.” Price 50 cents.
THE BOY’S OWN BOOK.
A Complete Encyclopedia of all the Diversions, Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative, of Boyhood and Youth.
Including Games with Marbles, Tops, Balls, Sports of Agility and Speed, Toys, Archery, Cricket, Gymnastics, Swimming; Arithmetical, Optical and Chemical Amusements; Checkers, Cards, Legerdemain, Puzzles, Riddles, Angling, Fencing, &c. &c. &c. With very numerous engravings.
THE AMERICAN GIRL’S BOOK;
Or, OCCUPATION FOR PLAY HOURS. By Miss Leshe.
Including all the Sports and Pastimes suited to Girls; Plays with Toys, Games with Cards, Riddles, Amusing and Fancy Needle-Work, Card-Work, &c. &c.
For Young Persons.
BIBLE CARTOONS.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. From Designs by John Franklin. Containing Sixteen Engravings of Scenes from the Lives of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses. With Descriptions in the words of the Bible. 1 vol. 4to. 75 cents.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
HANS ANDERSEN’S STORY BOOK: With a Memoir of the Author, by Mary Howitt. Illustrated. One thick vol. 75 cents.
ANDERSEN’S TALES FROM DENMARK; One vol. to match the above. 75 cents. Containing a large number of the most popular Tales of this fascinating story-teller; not included in the former volume. [In Press. “We prophecy for these Tales an immortality in the nursery.”—Blackwood.
MRS. HOFLAND.
DOMESTIC TALES: Being the Histories of the Officer’s, Merchant’s, and Clergymen’s Widows, and their Young Families. With Illustrations. In one vol. 75 cents
L. MARIA CHILD.
FLOWERS FOR CHILDREN: Complete in one thick vol. with Engravings. 871/2 cents.
ROSE MARIAN, AND THE FLOWER FAIRIES. Adapted from the German Legend, by L. Maria Child. With Twelve Illustrations from the German copy. 25 cents.
FUN FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
THE STORY OF STORIES: Being Rambles in the Fairy Land of Italy. From the Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile. Translated from the Neapolitan, by John Edward Taylor. With Illustrations, by George Cruikshank. 871/2 cts.
One thick Volume, with Illustrations, and a Memoir of the Author by Mary Howitt.
Price 75 cents; extra gilt, $1.
CONTENTS.
“We have placed Andersen’s name at the head of our list, in gratitude for the delight and amusement his stories for children have afforded us. When Fairy-land seemed lost to us, or peopled by a new race of utilitarians, who spoke its language and tried its spells in mere slavish imitation, without comprehending their use and meaning; a Poet from the North has made fresh flowers bloom there, and brought it back again to our hearts and eyes in brighter colors and stronger outlines than before.”—Christian Remembrancer.
“There is a child-like tenderness and simplicity in his writings—an elevation and purity of tone—which is the secret of the extreme charm his celebrated stories have for children. They are as simple and as touching as the old Bible narratives of Joseph and his Brethren, and the little lad who died in the corn field. We wonder not at their being the most popular books of their kind in Europe.’’—Mary Howitt.
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