Front matter
Reading edition
The cover of this book was created by the transcriber, using a plain cover and the title page; it is placed in the public domain. A more extensive transcriber’s note can be found at the end of this book.
Uniform with this Volume
CHRISTMAS TALES OF FLANDERS
With Plates in Colour and many Black and White Illustrations by JEAN DE BOSSCHÈRE
“This handsome and well-illustrated book is one of the most attractive we have seen this season. It gives us renderings of the popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant which have a colour and quaintness of their own, yet combines adventures with an unobtrusive and so more effective moral.”—Saturday Review.
“There are delightful stories; even more attractive than the letterpress are M. de Bosschère’s illustrations. Conceived with inexhaustible fancy, full of quaint detail, and set down with a fascinating naïveté they embody the characters and scenes of the tales with a fullness of particularism that should provide endless entertainment to youthful readers. They are the best and most complete series of designs yet produced by the artist.”—Connoisseur.
“The illustrations by Jean de Bosschère are of a droll fancy. The artist has a notable power of the grotesque, and both in colour and black and white he uses it.”—Daily Telegraph.
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
FOLK TALES OF BEASTS AND MEN
“HE TORE A RIB FROM HIS SIDE AND CUT OFF MY EAR”
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