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WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B. C.TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A. D.
BY CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENT PREFATORY NOTE As a means of collecting material for this book I have sent to many artists in Great Britain and in various countries of Europe, as well as in the United States, a circular, asking where their studies were made, what honors they have received, the titles of their principal works, etc. I take this opportunity to thank those who have cordially replied to my questions, many of whom have given me fuller information than I should have presumed to ask; thus assuring correctness in my statements, which newspaper and magazine notices of artists and their works sometimes f...

The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, from myths because they make no attempt to personify or explain the forces or processes of nature, from fairy stories because they do not often bring to the stage actors from a different nature from ours.... The stories which make up this volume are closer to experience and come, from the most part, nearer to the every-day happenings of life.

'Babel' is de stoutste fantasmagorie ooit aan zijn brein ontsproten. Het is alsof hij met zijn fantasie hetzelfde heeft willen doen als Cyrus langs de trappen en de terrassen van den toren van Babel: - de Goden bestormen. - Samenvatting door Frans Netscher (Uit: Veen's Nieuws 1901, 1 juni.)

Aan Psyche, Fidessa en Babel hebben wij gezien, dat Couperus in zijne sproken, of allegorieën, of phantasieën, voorwaar geen geringer werk geeft, dan in zijne romans. Namelijk: voor hen die ze verstaan. Men mag gelooven, dat Couperus juist in die creaties van vagere gestalte zijn eigen innerlijkste en beste en liefste heeft neêrgelegd: dat hij ze meer voor zichzelf gemaakt heeft, dan voor een publiek. De romans kan iedereen volgen, waardeeren, of critiseeren; maar deze sproken kunnen slechts begrip en appreciatie vinden bij de met den dichter min of meer gelijk-voelenden, - en die kunnen niet anders dan betrekkelijk slechts weinigen zijn. (Uit: J. van den Oude. Uit de poppenkraam onzer ro...

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so lovely there was no end to her loveliness.
So one day, ’twas on a Thursday evening late at the fall of the year, the weather was so wild and rough outside, and it was so cruelly dark, and rain fell and wind blew, till the walls of the cottage shook again. There they all sat round the fire, busy with this thing and that. But just then, all at once something gave three taps on the window-pane. Then the father went out to see what was the matter; and, when he got out of doors...

This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as “fables” though many are without obvious moral.