The Grimms, in the appendix to their _Household Tales_,* give a list of the stories with which they were acquainted. Out of Europe they note first the literary collections of the East, the Thousand and One Nights and the Hitopadesa, which, with the Book of Sinda-bad, and the Pantschatantra, and the Katharit Sagara, contain almost all of the Oriental tales that filtered into Western literature through written translations. The Grimms had not our store of folk-tales recently collected from the lips of the Aryan and non-Aryan natives of Hindostan, such as the works of Miss Maive Stokes, of Miss Frere, of Captain Steel, of Mr. Lai Behar Day, and the few Santal stories. But the Grimms had some Kalmuck stories.** * Mrs. Hunt's translation, London, 1884. ** "The relations of Ssidi Kur," in Bergmann's _Nomadische Stretfereien_, vol. i. One or two Chinese and Japanese examples had fallen into their hands, and all this as early as 1822. In later years they picked up a Malay story, some Bechuana tales, Koelle's Kanuri or Bornu stories, Schoolcraft's and James Athearn Jones's North American legends, Finnish, Esthonian and Mongolian narratives, and an increasing store of European _contes_. The Grimms were thus not unaware that the _märchen_, with their surprising resemblances of plot and incident, had a circulation far beyond the limits of the Ayran peoples. They were specially struck, as was natural, by the reappearance of incidents analogous to those of the German _contes_ (such as _Machandelboom_ and the _Singing Bone_, 47, 28) among the remote Bechuanas of South Africa. They found, too, that in Sierra Leone beasts and birds play the chief parts in _märchen_. "They have a much closer connection with humanity,... nay, they have even priests," as the animals in Guiana have _peays_ or sorcerers of their own. "Only the beasts of the country itself appear in the _märchen_." Among these Bornu legends they found several tales analogous to _Faithful John_ (6), and to one in Stra-parola's _Piacevoli Notti_ (Venice, 1550), a story, by the way, which recurs among the Santals, an "aboriginal" tribe of India. It is the tale of the man who knows the language of animals, and is warned by them against telling secrets to women. Among the Indians of North America Grimm found the analogue of his tale (182) of the _Elves' Gifts_, which, by the way, also illustrates a proverb in Japan. Finnish, Tartar and Indian analogues were discovered in plenty.