Child, in English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Part III., page 5. The text here given is from Chappell's Christmas Carols, edited by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, page 22, without modernizations.

PAGE 145. -"You like the Odyssey?" wrote Lamb to Bernard Barton. "Did you ever read my Adventures of Ulysses, founded on Chapman's old translation-for children or men? Chapman is divine, and my abridgement has not quite emptied him of his divinity."

Lamb says in the preface: "This work treats of the conduct and sufferings of Ulysses, the father of Telemachus. The picture which it exhibits is that of a brave man struggling with adversity; by a wise use of events, and with an inimitable presence of mind under difficulties, forcing out a way for himself through the severest trials to which human life can be exposed; with enemies natural and preternatural surrounding him on all sides. The agents in this tale, besides men and women, are giants, enchanters, sirens: things which denote external force or internal temptations, the twofold danger which a wise fortitude must expect to encounter in its course through this world. The fictions contained in it will be found to comprehend some of the most admired inventions of Grecian mythology.

"The groundwork of the story is as old as the Odyssey, but the moral and the coloring are comparatively modern. By avoiding the prolixity which marks the speeches and the descriptions in Homer, I have gained a rapidity to the narration which I hope will make it more attractive and give it more the air of a romance to young readers."

The text here given is from "The Works of Charles Lamb," edited by Percy Fitzgerald. London: E. Moxon & Co., 1876.

CARROLL, LEWIS (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1890).
The Walrus and the Carpenter....

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO (1803-1882).

The Mountain and the Squirrel

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GRIMM, JACOB (1785-1863) AND WILHELM (1786-1859).

Hans in Luck

Rumpel-Stilts-Kin

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