Grimm's Fairy Tales

Click on any of the filenumbers below to quickly view each ebook. 11027 (HTML file Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by R. E. Owen) 52521 (HTML file with illustrations in color by Rie Cramer) GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES EDITED BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT Illustrated By Rie Cramer THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 1927 COPYRIGHT 1922 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY Grimm’s Fairy Tales Printed in the U. S. A. FOREWORD To our American boys and girls is offered this volume which is really Grimm’s Fairy Tales , not an abridgment superficial and colorless, nor an insipid retelling of the stories. This edition is based on the Hunt version, with an introduction by the folk-lorist, Andrew Lang. The Hunt version is considered a most accurate English translation. From the full collection, fifty-one stories suitable for children have been selected. Among these are famous tales as well as many delightful ones not usually included in children’s volumes. Where the Hunt wording is too stilted, the text of the Hausmärchen itself has been followed. The very long sentences have been subdivided. While that quaint old-fashioned translation, illustrated with woodcuts by Wehnert, has contributed its bit of folk phraseology. The Editor’s desire is to restore to the children as large a collection as possible of Grimm’s Fairy Tales unmutilated in their literary perfection. The illustrations are by the well-known Dutch artist, Mrs. Rie Cramer. Some of Rie Cramer’s other fairy tale pictures published in England, are said by admiring critics there, to be very charming, of exceptional merit, and to have high artistic merit of their own. Her illustrations for Grimm are particularly harmonious in color, while their quaint charm grows on one more and more as one lives with them. They are fanciful or humorous. They have the quality, rare in fairy tales, of actually illustrating their text. This will mean added pleasure to the children. Rie Cramer’s little black and white headings are particularly pretty and graceful in outline. The tales are presented here in their original form, with nothing left out of child-heartedness, humor, poetic feeling, and delicate sentiment and fancy. Indeed, it is all here—the poesy and purity which those profound and child-loving scholars, the Brothers Grimm, retained in the old folk-tales which, with so much pains, they gathered largely from among the peasant-folk themselves. And the Brothers explained, in their preface, that they had