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 OTHER WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

This is a reprint of the original English translation of one of the most remarkable works in the world.—Times.

With its scholarly disquisition and its lovely paper and type, the book makes an irresistible appeal.—Notes & Queries.

The Editor's Introduction gives a readable resume of the now somewhat voluminous Bidpai literature.—Athenæum.

Mr. Jacobs' Introduction is a delightfully-written essay in the lore of beast stories.—Scotsman.

Every care has been employed to produce a beautiful book. . . . The introduction is quite up to the high standard set in the previous ones of the series.—Journal of American Folk-Lore.

Every lover of old books must be a debtor to Mr. Joseph Jacobs for his charming reprint of Sir J. North's first English version of the 'Fables of Bidpai.'—Saturday Review.

Ces deux volumes de la 'Bibliotheque de Carabas' (Bidpai et Æsop) constituent l'examen le plus complet et le plus savant qui ait ete fait depuis Benfey de cette grande question de l'origine et de la migration des fables, et la critique de l'auteur s'y montre partout aussi sage que bien informee.—, in Melusine.

This remarkable book.—, in Academy

This singularly able essay which all should read, learned or unlearned, that arr interested in its subject.Athenæum.

It is seldom that so many important discoveries in any literary field have been made or suggested within the same space as in Mr. Jacobs' 'History of Æsopic Fable.'—Nation (N.Y.).

So sind es nicht nur viele einzelne Punkte die Jacobs neu und zum ersten male beleuchtet hat, sondern vor allem die verbindenden Glieder des Verlaufes der aesopischen Tradition zieischen den einzelnen festen Marksteinen die Jacobs' Arbeit klarlegt und das Verdienst seiner 'Geschichte' ausmacht.—Anglia.

Questo importante volume tratta ill un' opera critica di molto valore nella a qule sono affrantate con vigore pari alia erudizione di grave interesse.—. Archivio per Tradizione Popolari.

His work is throughout fresh, interesting, and ingenious.—Saturday Review.

The degree and quality of his learning are not to be doubted; it is varied, profound, and without a spice of pedantry.—Scots Observer.

Must take rank among the most remarkable achievements in this field of study.—, in Journal of American Folk-Lore.

The most valuable contribution to the study of Folk-lore which has been made during the year 1889.— in Folk-Lore.