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Preface LAST year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. I reland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors inC arleton, Gri... More

Preface LAST year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. I reland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and Croker has found a whole school of successors inC arleton, Griffin, Kennedy, Curtin, and Douglas Hyde. Scotland had the great name of Campbell, and has still efficient followers in MacD ougall, Maclnnes, Carmichael, Macleod, and Campbell ofT iree. Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these ;in this department the Cymru have shown less vigour than the Gaedhel. Perhaps theE isteddfod, by offering prizes for the collection of Welsh folk-tales, may remove this inferiority. Meanwhile Wales must be content to be somewhat scantily represented among the Fairy Tales of the Celts, while the extinct Cornish tongue has only contributed one tale. In making my selection I have chiefly tried to make the stories characteristic.
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