2 editions. Recently the Cambridge
edition has been translated from the Pali, edited by E.B.
Cowell, published by Putnam, New York, 1895-1907.

4000 B.C. _Tales of Ancient Egypt_. These were the tales of
magicians, recorded on papyrus.

600 B.C. (about). _Homeric Legends_.

200 B.C. (about). _Book of Esther_.

Second century, A.D. _The Golden Ass, Metamorphoses of Apuleius_.

550 A.D. _Panchatantra_, the _Five Books_. This was a
Sanskrit collection of fables, the probable source of the
_Fables of Bidpai_.

Second century, A.D. _The Hitopadesa_, or _Wholesome
Instruction_. A selection from the _Panchatantra_, first
edited by Carey, in 1804; by Max Mueller, in 1844.

550 A.D. _Panchatantra_. Pehlevi version.

Tenth century, A.D. _Panchatantra_. Arabic version.

Eleventh century, A.D. _Panchatantra_. Greek version.

Twelfth century, A.D. _Panchatantra_. Persian version.

1200 A.D. _Sanskrit Tales_. These tales were collected by
Somadeva Bhatta, of Cashmere, and were published to amuse
the Queen of Cashmere. They have been translated by
Brockhaus, 1844. Somadeva's _Ocean of the Streams of Story_
has been translated by Mr. Tawney, of Calcutta, 1880.

Tales of the West came from the East in two sources:--

1262-78. (1) _Directorium Humanae Vitae_, of John of Capua.
This was translated from the _Hebrew_, from the _Arabic_ of
the eighth century, from the _Pehlevi_ of Persia of the
sixth century, from the _Panchatantra_, from the _Sanskrit
original_. This is the same as the famous Persian version,
_The Book of Calila and Dimna_, attributed to Bidpai, of
India. There was a late Persian version, in 1494, and one in
Paris in 1644, which was the source of La Fontaine.

Thirteenth century. (2) _The Story of the Seven Sages of
Rome_, or _The Book of Sindibad_. This appeared in Europe as
the Latin _History of the Seven Sages of Rome_, by Dame
Jehans, a monk in the Abbey of Haute Selve. There is a
Hebrew, an Arabic, and a Persian version. It is believed the
Persian version came from Sanskrit but the Sanskrit original
has not yet been found.

Tenth century. _Reynard the Fox_. This was first found as a
Latin product of the monks, in a cloister by the banks of
the Mosel and Mass. _Reynard the Fox_ shares with _AEsop's