The literary charm of the translation is high, and the tone struck in rendering the tales from the Slav and the Magyar languages is naïve without being silly, natural without being monotonous.... The collection opens with a varied miscellany of Russian stories about the metal and animal kingdoms; enchanted princesses; pigs with golden bristles; the waters of youth, life, and death; and the deathless youth. The marvellous imagination of the Russ peoples plays sportively through these creations, and exhibits wanton delight in hugeness, in physical strength and beauty, in comic situations of its mighty myth-tsars, and queer adventures for its king's sons and tsarins.... Grown-up children, as well as hunters after folk-lore and superstitions, will revel in these freaks of fact and fancy, which Mr. Curtin translates, and dedicates appropriately to Prof. F. J. Child.--_The Critic._ [Decoration] TALES OF THE FAIRIES AND OF THE GHOST-WORLD. Collected from Oral Tradition in Southwest Munster. BY JEREMIAH CURTIN. _12mo. Cloth, $1.25._ It will attract earnest attention from cultivated readers everywhere who delight in primitive romance expressed in the simple, unaffected language of the common people.--_Boston Beacon._ LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, Publishers, 254 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Transcriber's Note The name meaning 'black fox' is referred to in different stories as Yípokus and Yípokos, while a plant with red flowers is referred to as both yosoü and yósoü. These are preserved as printed, as they may indicate linguistic variations between story sources. In the story 'Norwanchakus and Keriha', on page 212 Keriha mentions going beyond the sky in the southwest, then goes beyond the sky in the southeast. This inconsistency is preserved as printed. In the story 'Olelbis', one character is named as both Tilichi and Tilitchi. Although there are more instances of Tilitchi, reference to a Wintu dictionary suggests that Tilichi is probably closer to the correct spelling. However, it is preserved as printed in each case. There were some other inconsistencies in the spelling of proper nouns. For ease of searching, where there was a strong prevalence of one form over another the transcriber has made them consistent, as follows: Page 234--Lasasswa amended to Lasaswa--"Old Lasaswa took one end of his rope, ..." Page 276--Tuletot amended to Tulitot--"While dancing, Tulitot took a snake from his mouth, ..." Page 285--Marima amended to Marimi--"... and you, my wife, Ochul Marimi, make ready; ..." Page 367--Marima amended to Marimi--"... Ahalamila, Metsi, and old Shushu Marimi." Page 377--Wipajusi amended to Hwipajusi--"... the youngest daughter of Hwipajusi, ..." Page 381--Wipajusi's amended to Hwipajusi's--"... and at dusk these two boys went to Hwipajusi's ..."