A comprehensive collection of tales edited by the American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. American ture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States.
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The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have with one exception no core of fact at the centre from myths because they make no attempt to personify or explain the forces or processes of nature from fairy stories because they do not often bring on to the stage actors of a different nature from ours.
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