New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-16
FAIRY LORE.
Az OLD QUARREL BETWEEN FOLK l'N-
lists ANp sTORY-TELLEkS.

TAILS r Ht hnai~ so WIN rustntorn- BY J.
l:oghMooir p h', ,,i So Macmillan 4 90.
THE Golden FAIRY BOOK. COMPRISING S,orir'
bv Noriiz J1kai. George SAND VI l.,l'' III
:. a., - T,,,,s 1;onza.o Fernandez Francoso
Win no Illustrations 10y IT. X. MILO - '"''
80 Il. Appletpn 20
MORE CELTIC FAIRY TAILS Se -, Gd,o an =,
Eii,et by Joseph Jacob illG,tra,ri ny non" -
iiatton ~. Nj. - q +. F"'n''" " SONS
\ COOK OF FAIRY TALES. Rctoid by ;. R ia
y 'E"ri1 Nith Pictures 10y y j. GAsdn. Up ~
~ Dodd. Mead x TO
THE YEow FARy no9K a., Eas@ '{ by Nq f.
it:%n nHH rn xvi 81 Iongmans. Green CO.
THE sroRy OF ALEXANDER. Told by Robert
steele and Drawn 10y Fred Mason Up N'''' ~
Macmillan q Go.
THE MAN WHO MARRIED. TIE M ~, ,r,e az F.
rummis Pr \ 239 The Century company.
The only zeal additions TO the literature Of folk
lore IN tho above list are Mrs Steers Iaies o'
,,o p,ni,h, and Mr.. Lummis's Pueblo Indian ta'eS
Other volumes are simply collections "i '"''c-'''"
,alcs more or less unfamiliar 10 new generation o
,,,dcrs or course Mr. Jacobss addition To his eel
49,, .,o f., s-,cntinc as far as It goes. lie is too ac
c,,a,c ab,uf these matters not 10 he scltnuHc bul
. 10 an nibbling AZ great cheese he l.. ID adopt
favorite idlom of some Cetic story-te1lers' NS"e
from the great folklore question every volume !"
the LIST will be found cn;crtalnins "heh '"r '"'o'
no,e lacks the attractivencss which surrounds that
-, AZ Lang the defect is made up by the renown
OF those writer's whose works have been levied on
o. tho reo, rn,sceanics. Mr. Lang Is bold enough
>, make pea for the class OF publications 10 whch
his yellow Fairy Book belongs lie says tha'
there is one gentleman who Is opposed to the prac-
,c. ~ printing - many fairy tales with pictures.
and publishing them with all the allurements ~
cover. IN varied colors He is abiding as he says.
,, cou,e president OF the Folk Lore Society.
.rho ,,c, f. that Mr. CONNIE believes In making A
verv broad distinction between real folklore. the
tradition Of rustics and savagcs unconsciousy pre-
served sometimes even by tho cultured on the one
hand and the limitations and adaptations OF toik-
:o,c by practlsed writer's on the other lie would
shut out the latter collections of popular ta.es
altogether because they belong to literature. But
I'm the yellow Fairy Book aud the rest says Mr..
Lang 'are many tales by persons VINO are neither
savaees nor riistcs. such as Nine. dAu.noy ana
Herr Hans Christian Andersen These pieces may
or may not bee true the nn;ure OF unsophiscatcd
man The uncertainty on this poin, diminishes
their value as evidence. They remain valuable ana
attractive as literature: but they would be that In
the environment given them by their authors, with
OF heinz extracted to ~ out new volumes by new
editors A. mythology they are sometimes hopelcssly
confused when placed beside the natural product
o. the popusr Imagination. Mir. Bar!ns-Gould feels
"a Ted upon for example to print translation OF
m. Countess d'Aulnoy's yellow Dwarf" rightly
cnpha sizing the fact that II Is version OF the tac
known to readers OF Grimm as "Rumpes,lltskln."
Then he goes on To say that Nine. d'Aunoy
spoiled "A good story-and this Is less than the
truth-bccause she did NOT understand the signih-
ca nee OF OF the dwarf and the still greater
Significance OF the fact that this name was mys-
terry which had TO he unriddled
1t is to he imagined that In the days when
Myth. Ritual and Religion" penned. Mr..
Lang would hardly have treated 30 inadvertently