_ 6_d._

SPECIAL EDITION, printed on Indian paper. With Notes, but
without Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._

THE TRUE STORY BOOK. Edited by ANDREW LANG.
With 8 Plates and 58 Illustrations in the Text by H. J.
Ford, Lucien Davis, Lancelot Speed, and L. Bogle. Crown 8vo. 6_s._

London: LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO.
New York: 15 East 16th Street.

[Illustration: The Swineherd Takes the Ten Kisses]

THE

Yellow Fairy Book

EDITED BY

ANDREW LANG

[Illustration]

_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. J. FORD_

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET
1894

_All rights reserved_

Dedication

TO

JOAN, TODDLES, AND TINY

Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue,
All true, or just as good as true,
And here's the Yellow Book for _you_!

Hard is the path from A to Z,
And puzzling to a curly head,
Yet leads to Books--Green, Blue, and Red

For every child should understand
That letters from the first were planned
To guide us into Fairy Land

So labour at your Alphabet,
For by that learning shall you get
To lands where Fairies may be met.

And going where this pathway goes,
You too, at last, may find, who knows?
The Garden of the Singing Rose.

_PREFACE_

The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for
publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the
Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are
so kind as to say that they _are_ pleased, the Editor does not care
very much for what other people may say. Now, there is one gentleman
who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy
tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers. He
is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body
called the Folk Lore Society. Once a year he makes his address to his
subjects, of whom the Editor is one, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (who has
published many delightful fairy tales with pretty pictures)[1] is
another. Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor,
when they heard their president say that he did not think it very nice
in them to publish fairy books, above all, red, green, and blue fairy
books! They said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were
ready to 'put themselves on their country,' and be tried by a jury of
children. And, indeed, they sti