Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Carol Brown, Sania Ali Mirza and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net POPULAR TALES _This is a volume in the Arno Press collection_ INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE _Advisory Editor_ Richard M. Dorson _Editorial Board_ Issachar Ben Ami Vilmos Voigt _See last pages of this volume for a complete list of titles_ POPULAR TALES [Charles Perrault] Edited by Andrew Lang [Illustration: New York Times Company logo] ARNO PRESS A New York Times Company Editorial Supervision: LUCILLE MAIORCA Reprint Edition 1977 by Arno Press Inc. Reprinted from a copy in The Princeton University Library INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE ISBN for complete set: 0-405-10077-9 See last pages of this volume for titles. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Popular tales. (International folklore) Translation of selected tales from Contes. Reprint of the 1888 ed. published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. I. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912. II. Title. III. Series. PQ1877.A25 1977 398.2 77-70607 ISBN 0-405-10118-X PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES _LANG_ London HENRY FROWDE [Illustration: Oxford Logo] OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CORNER, E.C. PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES EDITED _FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS, WITH INTRODUCTION, &c._ BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. LATE FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCLXXXVIII [_All rights reserved_] _PREFACE._ _This edition of the stories of_ Perrault _is intended partly as an introduction to the study of Popular Tales in general. The text of the prose has been collated by_ M. Alfred Bauer _with that of the first edition (Paris, 1697), a book which probably cannot be found in England. I have to thank_ M. Bauer _for the kind and minute care he has bestowed on his task. We have tried to restore the original text of 1697, with its spelling, punctuation, use of capital letters, and so forth. One might have compared the text of_ Perrault's _prose tales, as published in a book in 1697, with their original form in_ Moetjens's _Recueil or Magazine. Unluckily the British Museum only possesses the earlier volumes of the Recueil, in which the less important stories, those in verse, were first published. The Text of the tales in Verse has been collated, by myself and_ Mrs. Ogilby, _with that of the Recueil. The Paris editions of 1694 and 1695 I have never seen. In his 'Contes en Prose de Charles Perrault'_ (Jouaust, _Paris_, 1876), M. Paul Lacroix _published the more important readings in which the Recueil differed from the ultimate text. The changes shew good taste on the part of_ Perrault: _one or two tedious gallantries, out of keeping with the stories, were removed by him._