Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE TEMPLE CLASSICS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE [Illustration] TALES _of_ PASSED TIMES TOLD BY MASTER CHARLES PERRAULT _WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY_ CHARLES ROBINSON LONDON: J.M. DENT & COMPANY ALDINE HOUSE, BEDFORD STREET COVENT GARDEN. 1900. It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without "Beauty and the Beast"; a version of this tale, by Mme. Le Prince de Beaumont, has, therefore, been added to this collection. It has also been increased, space permitting it, by the insertion of two tales by Mme. la Comtesse d'Aulnoy; her writings, of a less robust class than those of Perrault, possess in their atmosphere of hidden magic, the charm which resides in that special feature of fairyland, and the addition of "The Benevolent Frog" and "Princess Rosette" will not, we think, be unwelcome to the youthful reader. CONTENTS PAGE THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD 5 LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD 23 BLUE BEARD 31 MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS 43 THE FAIRIES 55 CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER 63 RIQUET WITH THE TUFT 77 LITTLE THUMBLING 91 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 109 THE BENEVOLENT FROG 133 PRINCESS ROSETTE 169 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE CINDERELLA _Frontispiece_ SHE FELL INTO A SWOON 9 "GRANDMA, WHAT GREAT EARS YOU HAVE!" 25 "YOUR TEARS ARE USELESS," SAID BLUE BEARD; "YOU MUST DIE" 37 PUSS AMONG THE REAPERS 47 SHE GAVE IT TO THE WOMAN 57 THE KING'S SON GAVE HER HIS HAND 67 "THEN," SAID THE PRINCESS, "I WISH YOU MAY BE THE HANDSOMEST PRINCE IN THE WORLD" 85 THE BOYS FOLLOWED HIM 93