Note 55 — APPENDIX.

"Of the ten stories in the Mother Goose's Fairy Tales of Perrault, seven are to be found in the Pentamerone," says Mr. Keightley, in his Tales and Fictions, p. 184. I have already shown that there were only eight stories in the Contes de ma Mère l'Oye, and in the Pentamerone I find but two that have any similitude to the tales of Perrault—viz., Gagliuso and La Gatta Cenerentola, both differing widely in many points from the ancient Breton traditions.