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Title: The Laughing Prince
Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales

Author: Parker Fillmore

Illustrator: Jay Van Everen

Release Date: November 4, 2006 [EBook #19713]

Language: English

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=THE LAUGHING
PRINCE=

A book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales
and Folk Tales.

RETOLD BY
PARKER FILLMORE

With illustrations and decorations by Jay Van Everen.

When Mr. Fillmore started his study of the folk lore of Eastern Europe,
he tapped a mine of treasure for children. The gorgeousness of the
imagery in the stories, their rollicking humor, the adventures, were
entirely new to child and adult readers. The stories in this third
volume reflect the folk lore of many races, for the country now known as
Jugoslavia has been one of the great highways and battlefields of the
world where Orient and Occident, Greek and Roman, Turk and Slav have
fought out their national aspirations. Basically, it has the Slavic
exuberance of imagination and humor, but it has also absorbed much of
the spirit and tales of the Near and Far East.

_Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc._
757 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N. Y.

80-120

_BY PARKER FILLMORE_

CZECHOSLOVAK FAIRY TALES
THE SHOEMAKER'S APRON

_Illustrated by Jan Matulka_

THE LAUGHING PRINCE

A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

BY

PARKER FILLMORE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS

BY

JAY VAN EVEREN

[Illustration]

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC.

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY

PARKER FILLMORE

RENEWED BY LOUISE FILLMORE

0.1.68

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO BUTTON

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NOTE

In calling this _A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales_ I have
used the word Jugoslav in its literal sense of Southern Slav. The
Bulgars are just as truly Southern Slavs as the Serbs or Croats or any
other of the Slav peoples now included within the state of