llections are:--

_Iolo M. S_., published by the Welsh M. S. Society.

_Mabinogion_, translated by Lady Guest. (Contains tales
that trace back to the twelfth century.)

_Y Cymrodor_, by Professor Rhys.

1825. _Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of
Ireland_, by T. Crofton Croker.

1842. _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. Chambers.

1860-62. _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_, by J.F.
Campbell.

_Tales_, collected and published with notes, by Mr. Alfred
Nutt.

1866. By Patrick Kennedy, the Irish Grimm. _Legendary
Fictions of the Irish Celts; Fireside Stories of Ireland_
(1870); and _Bardic Stories of Ireland_ (1871).

In England the publication of fairy tales may be followed more readily
because the language proves no hindrance and the literature gives
assistance. In England the principal publications of fairy tales
were:--

1604. _Pasquil's Jests_. Contained a tale similar to one of
Grimm's.

1635. _A Tract, A Descryption of the Kynge and Quene of
Fairies, their habit, fare, abode, pomp, and state_.

Eighteenth century (early). _Madame D'Aulnoy's Tales_, a
translation.

1667-1745. _Gulliver's Travels_, by Dean Swift. (One modern
edition, with introduction by W.D. Howells, and more than
one hundred illustrations by Louis Rhead, is published by
Harpers. Another edition, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, is
published by Dutton.)

1700-1800. _Chap-Books_. Very many of these books,
especially the best ones, were published by William and
Cluer Dicey, in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.
Rival publishers, whose editions were rougher in engraving,
type, and paper, labored in Newcastle.

The chap-books were little paper books hawked by chap-men,
or traveling peddlers, who went from village to village with
"Almanacks, Bookes of Newes, or other trifling wares." These
little books were usually from sixteen to twenty-four pages
in bulk and in size from two and one half inches by three
and one half inches to five and one half inches by four and
one quarter inches. They sold for a penny or six-pence and
became the very popular literature of the middle and lower
classes of their time. After the nineteenth century they
became widely published, deteriorated, and gradually were
crowded out by the _Penny