2. Literary transmission of fairy tales 170
a. An enumeration of the literary collections and
books that have handed down the tales; as
_Reynard the Fox_, the _Persian King-book, The
Thousand and One Nights_, Straparola's
_Nights_, Basile's _Pentamerone_, and Perrault's
_Tales of Mother Goose_ 170
b. French publications of fairy tales 179
1) The tales of Perrault 179
2) Tales by followers of Perrault 181
3) A list of tales from the time of Perrault to
the present time 183
c. English and Celtic publications of fairy tales 183
1) Tales of Scotland and Ireland 184
2) English tales and books 184
3) A list illustrating the history of the English
fairy tale, including chap-books: _Jack the
Giant-Killer_, _Tom Hickathrift_;
old collections; etc. 184
4) A list illustrating the development of
fairy-tale illustration in England 188
d. German publications of fairy tales 192
1) A list of tales from the time of the Grimms
to the present 193
e. Fairy-tale publications of other nations 193
f. American publications of fairy tales 195
1) A list of tales from the earliest times to
1870 196
g. Recent collections of folk-lore 200
III. References 201
V. CLASSES OF FAIRY TALES
I. Available types of tales 204
1. The accumulative or clock story 205
a. Tales of simple repetition 206
1) The House that Jack Built 206
2) The Key of the Kingdom 207
b. Tales of repetition with an addition 208
1) The Old Woman and Her Pig 208
2) Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse 208
3) Johnny Cake 209
4) The Gingerbread Man 209
5) The Straw Ox 209
c. Tales of repetition and variation 209
1) The Three Bears 209
2) The Three Billy Goats 211
2. The animal tale 211
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