[Contents]THE MONGOLS. A HISTORY.ByJEREMIAH CURTIN.WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $3.00 net.President Rooseveltin his “Foreword” says:“The death of Jeremiah Curtin robbed America of one of her two or three foremost scholars. His extraordinary translations of the Polish novels of Sienkiewicz would have been enough to establish a first-class reputation for any man. But nothing that he did was more important than his studies of the rise of the mighty Mongol Empire and its decadence. In this particular field no other American or English scholar has ever approached him.”OPINIONSThis book the world actually needed.—Westminster, Philadelphia.A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.—Review of Reviews.A triumph of condensation and a very vivid narrative.—Boston Advertiser.Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have few.—The Outlook, New York.Many will regard this as the most noteworthy contribution to the literature of 1907.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.Mr. Curtin had no equal among English writers in his knowledge of the Mongol people.—The Congregationalist, Boston.Mr. Curtin’s work gives in detail a most interesting and graphic account of the rise of Mongol influence in Asia and its westward spread. It contains many extracts from almost inaccessible authorities, and is a valuable contribution not only to history, but to ethnology.—Chicago Tribune.The best single work on the subject yet published in English. Mr. Curtin’s chapters are vivid with brilliant description, and his power to paint in words is shown on many pages.… The book has a portrait, map, and good index, and is of inestimable value to the serious student.—Literary Digest.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers, BOSTON.[484][Contents]MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.With Etched Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.The myth tales included in this volume were collected personally by the author, during 1887, in the west of Ireland,—in Kerry, Galway, and Donegal,—and taken down from the mouths of men who, with one or two exceptions, spoke only Gaelic, or but little English and that imperfectly. To this is due the fact that the stories are so well preserved, and not blurred and rendered indistinct, as is the case in places where the ancient Gaelic language, in which they were originally told, has perished.CONTENTS.Introduction.The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Léin.The Three Daughters of King O’Hara.The Weaver’s Son and the Giant of the White Hill.Fair, Brown, and Trembling.The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island.The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire.The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin.The Fisherman’s Son and the Gruagach.The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin.Kil Arthur.Shaking-Head.Birth of Fin MacCumhail.Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh.Fin MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe.Gilla na Grakin and Fin MacCumhail.Fin MacCumhail. the Seven Brothers, and the King of France.Black, Brown, and Gray.Fin MacCumhail.Cucúlin.Oisin in Tir na n-og.❦NOTICES.Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish popular tales whichmay justly be ranked with the best recent collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.… A delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader.—The Nation.I have now read the whole of your “Irish Myths,” with perhaps one exception, and I compliment you most heartily upon the book.It is wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation.Fin MacCool and the Fenians of Erin were great fellows anyway.—Charles A. Dana.A contribution to the literature of the subject which is of the very first importance.… The stories are wonderfully fresh and distinct, and they are pervaded with a most rare and delicious humor.—The Beacon.A more thoroughly delightful book has not come to hand for many a long day. Its tales have, in the first place, the genuine ring of original myths, the true ring of folk-lore, that indescribable naïveté which is as charming as it is inimitable.—Boston Courier.No more interesting or more valuable contribution to the literature of this subject has ever been made.… The tales in this book are very charming. They cover a wide range, and to adults as well as to children of tender years they are simply fascinating.—Quebec Chronicle.The work of the collector is not only performed faithfully, but with such intelligence that the stories have a value in literature worthy of being added to the Norse sagas and other tales of wild adventure and myths.—Boston Journal.[485][Contents]HERO-TALES OF IRELAND.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.The tales included in this volume, though told in modern speech, relate to heroes and adventures of an ancient time, and contain elements peculiar to early ages of story-telling. The chief actors in most of them are represented as men; but we may be quite sure that these men are substitutes for heroes who were not considered human when the stories were told toCelticaudiences originally.—Introduction.CONTENTS.Elin Gow, the Swordsmith from Erin, and the Cow Glas Gainach.Mor’s Sons and the Herder from Under the Sea.Saudan Og and the Daughter of the King of Spain; Young Conal and the Yellow King’s Daughter.The Black Thief and King Conal’s Three Horses.The King’s Son from Erin, the Sprisawn, and the Dark King.The Amadan Mor and the Gruagach of the Castle of Gold.The King’s Son and the White-Bearded Scolog.Dyeermud Ulta and the King in South Erin.Cud, Cad, and Micad, Three Sons of the King of Urhu.Cahal, Son of King Conor, in Erin, and Bloom of Youth, Daughter of the King of Hathony.Coldfeet and the Queen of Lonesome Island.Lawn Dyarrig, Son of the King of Erin and the Knight of Terrible Valley.Balor on Tory Island.Balor of the Evil Eye.Art, the King’s Son, and Balor Beimenach, Two Sons-in-law of King Under the Wave.Shawn MacBreogan and the King of the White Nation.The Cotter’s Son and the Half Slim Champion.Blaiman, Son of Apple, in the Kingdom of the White Strand.Fin MacCool and the Daughter of the King of the White Nation.Fin MacCool, the Three Giants, and the Small Men.Fin MacCool, Ceadach Og, and the Fish-Hag.Fin MacCool, Faolan, and the Mountain of Happiness.Fin MacCool, the Hard Gilla, and the High King.The Battle of Ventry.❦OPINIONS.These are thrilling hero-tales. No extract can do the stories justice. Any one taking up the volume will not be likely to lay it down without reading it.—The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, whose translation of the novels of the great Polish novelist, Sienkiewicz, introduced him to English readers, has shown equally admirable skill in rendering into English many ancient hero-tales of Ireland. The stories are marvels of exaggeration, and have a genuine Irish flavor. Champions, giants, fairies, and witches work their wonders and spells in a fascinating way.—The Outlook.The people of this country ought to be grateful to that accomplished American scholar, Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from varied and quite dissimilar foreign languages which he has added to our literature. His version of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz opens up to us a most interesting department of history, of which English-speaking people have hitherto been profoundly ignorant; and his latest publication, “Hero-Tales of Ireland,” is perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm of a wild, delightful, primeval Celtic imagination.—The New York Sun.[486][Contents]MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND MAGYARS.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.CONTENTS.RUSSIAN MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.The Three Kingdoms,—the Copper, the Silver, and the Golden.Ivan Tsarevich, the Fire Bird, and the Gray Wolf.Ivan the Peasant’s Son and the Little Man Himself One Finger Tall, his Mustache Seven Versts in Length.The Feather of Bright Finist the Falcon.The Pig with Gold Bristles, the Deer with Golden Horns, and the Golden-Maned Steed with Golden Tail.Water of Youth, Water of Life, and Water of Death.The Footless and Blind Champions.The Three Kingdoms.Koshchéi Without-Death.Vassilissa Golden Tress, Bareheaded Beauty.The Ring with Twelve Screws.The Footless and the Blind.Go to the Verge of Destruction and bring back Shmat-Razum.Marya Morevna.Yelena the Wise.The Seven Simeons, Full Brothers.The Enchanted Princess.Vassilissa theCunningand the Tsar of the Sea.CZECHMYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.Boyislav, Youngest of Twelve.The Table, the Pack, and the Bag.The King of the Toads.The Mouse-Hole and the Underground Kingdom.The Cuirassier and the Horned Princess.The Treacherous Brethren.MAGYAR MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.The Poor Man and the King of the Crows.The Useless Wagoner.Mirko the King’s Son.The Reed Maiden.Kiss Miklos and the Green Daughter of the Green King.The Hedgehog, the Merchant, the King, and the Poor Man.❦OPINIONS.A volume as fascinating as any fairy book that was ever published; and simply for their wealth of imagination and rare simplicity of diction these stories will be widely read.… The volume, taken for all in all, is a distinct addition to literature, a priceless boon to scientific investigation, and a credit to American scholarship. The educated people of this country will do well to buy and read this truly remarkable book.—The Beacon.Will be welcome to many readers, not only to students, but to children, who find inexhaustible interest in just such folk-tales.—Public Opinion.At once thoroughly admirable and thoroughly delightful, … there is a surprising freshness and individuality of flavor in them.—Boston Courier.Stories of unique character, full of grotesque andmarvelousadventures, told with a beautiful simplicity of style which speaks well for the faithfulness of the translator’s work.—Milwaukee Sentinel.Prof. Jeremiah Curtin gives us a large collection of these tales, many of which are very interesting, many beautiful, and all strikingly curious.—Boston Advertiser.Mr. Curtin spares no pains in his researches into the early literature of the chief primitive races of the earth. Less than a year has passed since the publication of his admirable work on “Irish Folk-Lore.” The present volume adds his discoveries among three other important nations.—The Dial.[487][Contents]CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA.In Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of MankindByJEREMIAH CURTIN8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 net.An important work on the unwritten mental productions of primitive America, containing twenty long myths, all of remarkable beauty and exceptional value, taken down word for word by Mr. Curtin from Indians who knew no language save their own, and the chief of whom had not seen a white man until years of maturity.CONTENTSIntroduction.Olelbis.Olelbis and Mem Loimis.Norwan.Tulchuherris.Sedit and the Two Brothers Hus.Hawr.Norwanchakus and Keriha.Kele and Sedit.Kol Tibichi.The Winning of Halai Auna at the House of Tuina.The Hakas and the Tennas.Ilhataina.Hitchinna.Tirukala.Sukonia’s Wives and the Ichpul Sisters.The Finding of Fire.Haka Kaina.Titindi Maupa and Paiowa, the Youngest Daughter of Wakara.The Two Sisters, Haka Lasi and Tsore Jowa.The Dream of Juiwaiyu and his Journey to Damhauja’s Country.The Flight of Tsanunewa and Defeat of Hehku.The First Battle in the World and the Making of the Yana.❦OPINIONSA specially valuable contribution to folk-lore.—London Spectator.Nothing in literature is quite so perennial, so fascinating, so full of delight as folk-lore, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has given a volume of mythical tales, many of remarkable beauty, and all curious.—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.No writer of our century is better equipped to write such a book and make it historical, instructive, and interesting than Mr. Curtin.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.A permanent and valuable addition to the rapidly increasing literature of folk-lore.—Chicago Tribune.An intensely interesting and certainly a most valuable work. Mr. Curtin has brought to bear upon his subject great natural ability, the force of long experience, large attainments, and a very attractive style. His enthusiasm is admirable.—Independent, New York.No one man has done more to preserve the folk-lore of different countries than Mr. Jeremiah Curtin.—Boston Herald.LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTONColophonAvailabilityThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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[Contents]THE MONGOLS. A HISTORY.ByJEREMIAH CURTIN.WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $3.00 net.President Rooseveltin his “Foreword” says:“The death of Jeremiah Curtin robbed America of one of her two or three foremost scholars. His extraordinary translations of the Polish novels of Sienkiewicz would have been enough to establish a first-class reputation for any man. But nothing that he did was more important than his studies of the rise of the mighty Mongol Empire and its decadence. In this particular field no other American or English scholar has ever approached him.”OPINIONSThis book the world actually needed.—Westminster, Philadelphia.A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.—Review of Reviews.A triumph of condensation and a very vivid narrative.—Boston Advertiser.Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have few.—The Outlook, New York.Many will regard this as the most noteworthy contribution to the literature of 1907.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.Mr. Curtin had no equal among English writers in his knowledge of the Mongol people.—The Congregationalist, Boston.Mr. Curtin’s work gives in detail a most interesting and graphic account of the rise of Mongol influence in Asia and its westward spread. It contains many extracts from almost inaccessible authorities, and is a valuable contribution not only to history, but to ethnology.—Chicago Tribune.The best single work on the subject yet published in English. Mr. Curtin’s chapters are vivid with brilliant description, and his power to paint in words is shown on many pages.… The book has a portrait, map, and good index, and is of inestimable value to the serious student.—Literary Digest.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers, BOSTON.[484]
THE MONGOLS. A HISTORY.ByJEREMIAH CURTIN.WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $3.00 net.President Rooseveltin his “Foreword” says:“The death of Jeremiah Curtin robbed America of one of her two or three foremost scholars. His extraordinary translations of the Polish novels of Sienkiewicz would have been enough to establish a first-class reputation for any man. But nothing that he did was more important than his studies of the rise of the mighty Mongol Empire and its decadence. In this particular field no other American or English scholar has ever approached him.”OPINIONSThis book the world actually needed.—Westminster, Philadelphia.A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.—Review of Reviews.A triumph of condensation and a very vivid narrative.—Boston Advertiser.Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have few.—The Outlook, New York.Many will regard this as the most noteworthy contribution to the literature of 1907.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.Mr. Curtin had no equal among English writers in his knowledge of the Mongol people.—The Congregationalist, Boston.Mr. Curtin’s work gives in detail a most interesting and graphic account of the rise of Mongol influence in Asia and its westward spread. It contains many extracts from almost inaccessible authorities, and is a valuable contribution not only to history, but to ethnology.—Chicago Tribune.The best single work on the subject yet published in English. Mr. Curtin’s chapters are vivid with brilliant description, and his power to paint in words is shown on many pages.… The book has a portrait, map, and good index, and is of inestimable value to the serious student.—Literary Digest.LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers, BOSTON.[484]
THE MONGOLS. A HISTORY.
ByJEREMIAH CURTIN.
WITH A FOREWORD BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $3.00 net.
President Rooseveltin his “Foreword” says:
“The death of Jeremiah Curtin robbed America of one of her two or three foremost scholars. His extraordinary translations of the Polish novels of Sienkiewicz would have been enough to establish a first-class reputation for any man. But nothing that he did was more important than his studies of the rise of the mighty Mongol Empire and its decadence. In this particular field no other American or English scholar has ever approached him.”
OPINIONS
This book the world actually needed.—Westminster, Philadelphia.
A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.—Review of Reviews.
A triumph of condensation and a very vivid narrative.—Boston Advertiser.
Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have few.—The Outlook, New York.
Many will regard this as the most noteworthy contribution to the literature of 1907.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Mr. Curtin had no equal among English writers in his knowledge of the Mongol people.—The Congregationalist, Boston.
Mr. Curtin’s work gives in detail a most interesting and graphic account of the rise of Mongol influence in Asia and its westward spread. It contains many extracts from almost inaccessible authorities, and is a valuable contribution not only to history, but to ethnology.—Chicago Tribune.
The best single work on the subject yet published in English. Mr. Curtin’s chapters are vivid with brilliant description, and his power to paint in words is shown on many pages.… The book has a portrait, map, and good index, and is of inestimable value to the serious student.—Literary Digest.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO.,Publishers, BOSTON.[484]
[Contents]MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.With Etched Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.The myth tales included in this volume were collected personally by the author, during 1887, in the west of Ireland,—in Kerry, Galway, and Donegal,—and taken down from the mouths of men who, with one or two exceptions, spoke only Gaelic, or but little English and that imperfectly. To this is due the fact that the stories are so well preserved, and not blurred and rendered indistinct, as is the case in places where the ancient Gaelic language, in which they were originally told, has perished.CONTENTS.Introduction.The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Léin.The Three Daughters of King O’Hara.The Weaver’s Son and the Giant of the White Hill.Fair, Brown, and Trembling.The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island.The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire.The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin.The Fisherman’s Son and the Gruagach.The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin.Kil Arthur.Shaking-Head.Birth of Fin MacCumhail.Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh.Fin MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe.Gilla na Grakin and Fin MacCumhail.Fin MacCumhail. the Seven Brothers, and the King of France.Black, Brown, and Gray.Fin MacCumhail.Cucúlin.Oisin in Tir na n-og.❦NOTICES.Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish popular tales whichmay justly be ranked with the best recent collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.… A delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader.—The Nation.I have now read the whole of your “Irish Myths,” with perhaps one exception, and I compliment you most heartily upon the book.It is wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation.Fin MacCool and the Fenians of Erin were great fellows anyway.—Charles A. Dana.A contribution to the literature of the subject which is of the very first importance.… The stories are wonderfully fresh and distinct, and they are pervaded with a most rare and delicious humor.—The Beacon.A more thoroughly delightful book has not come to hand for many a long day. Its tales have, in the first place, the genuine ring of original myths, the true ring of folk-lore, that indescribable naïveté which is as charming as it is inimitable.—Boston Courier.No more interesting or more valuable contribution to the literature of this subject has ever been made.… The tales in this book are very charming. They cover a wide range, and to adults as well as to children of tender years they are simply fascinating.—Quebec Chronicle.The work of the collector is not only performed faithfully, but with such intelligence that the stories have a value in literature worthy of being added to the Norse sagas and other tales of wild adventure and myths.—Boston Journal.[485]
MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.With Etched Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.The myth tales included in this volume were collected personally by the author, during 1887, in the west of Ireland,—in Kerry, Galway, and Donegal,—and taken down from the mouths of men who, with one or two exceptions, spoke only Gaelic, or but little English and that imperfectly. To this is due the fact that the stories are so well preserved, and not blurred and rendered indistinct, as is the case in places where the ancient Gaelic language, in which they were originally told, has perished.CONTENTS.Introduction.The Son of the King of Erin and the Giant of Loch Léin.The Three Daughters of King O’Hara.The Weaver’s Son and the Giant of the White Hill.Fair, Brown, and Trembling.The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island.The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire.The Three Daughters of the King of the East and the Son of a King in Erin.The Fisherman’s Son and the Gruagach.The Thirteenth Son of the King of Erin.Kil Arthur.Shaking-Head.Birth of Fin MacCumhail.Fin MacCumhail and the Fenians of Erin in the Castle of Fear Dubh.Fin MacCumhail and the Knight of the Full Axe.Gilla na Grakin and Fin MacCumhail.Fin MacCumhail. the Seven Brothers, and the King of France.Black, Brown, and Gray.Fin MacCumhail.Cucúlin.Oisin in Tir na n-og.❦NOTICES.Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish popular tales whichmay justly be ranked with the best recent collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.… A delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader.—The Nation.I have now read the whole of your “Irish Myths,” with perhaps one exception, and I compliment you most heartily upon the book.It is wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation.Fin MacCool and the Fenians of Erin were great fellows anyway.—Charles A. Dana.A contribution to the literature of the subject which is of the very first importance.… The stories are wonderfully fresh and distinct, and they are pervaded with a most rare and delicious humor.—The Beacon.A more thoroughly delightful book has not come to hand for many a long day. Its tales have, in the first place, the genuine ring of original myths, the true ring of folk-lore, that indescribable naïveté which is as charming as it is inimitable.—Boston Courier.No more interesting or more valuable contribution to the literature of this subject has ever been made.… The tales in this book are very charming. They cover a wide range, and to adults as well as to children of tender years they are simply fascinating.—Quebec Chronicle.The work of the collector is not only performed faithfully, but with such intelligence that the stories have a value in literature worthy of being added to the Norse sagas and other tales of wild adventure and myths.—Boston Journal.[485]
MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND.
BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.
With Etched Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.
The myth tales included in this volume were collected personally by the author, during 1887, in the west of Ireland,—in Kerry, Galway, and Donegal,—and taken down from the mouths of men who, with one or two exceptions, spoke only Gaelic, or but little English and that imperfectly. To this is due the fact that the stories are so well preserved, and not blurred and rendered indistinct, as is the case in places where the ancient Gaelic language, in which they were originally told, has perished.
CONTENTS.
❦
NOTICES.
Mr. Curtin is the first to give to the public a volume of Irish popular tales whichmay justly be ranked with the best recent collections of popular tales in Germany, France, and Italy.… A delightful book alike for the scholar and general reader.—The Nation.
I have now read the whole of your “Irish Myths,” with perhaps one exception, and I compliment you most heartily upon the book.It is wonderfully fresh and suggestive, and in the mere capacity of a lot of fairy stories it ought to have a big circulation.Fin MacCool and the Fenians of Erin were great fellows anyway.—Charles A. Dana.
A contribution to the literature of the subject which is of the very first importance.… The stories are wonderfully fresh and distinct, and they are pervaded with a most rare and delicious humor.—The Beacon.
A more thoroughly delightful book has not come to hand for many a long day. Its tales have, in the first place, the genuine ring of original myths, the true ring of folk-lore, that indescribable naïveté which is as charming as it is inimitable.—Boston Courier.
No more interesting or more valuable contribution to the literature of this subject has ever been made.… The tales in this book are very charming. They cover a wide range, and to adults as well as to children of tender years they are simply fascinating.—Quebec Chronicle.
The work of the collector is not only performed faithfully, but with such intelligence that the stories have a value in literature worthy of being added to the Norse sagas and other tales of wild adventure and myths.—Boston Journal.[485]
[Contents]HERO-TALES OF IRELAND.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.The tales included in this volume, though told in modern speech, relate to heroes and adventures of an ancient time, and contain elements peculiar to early ages of story-telling. The chief actors in most of them are represented as men; but we may be quite sure that these men are substitutes for heroes who were not considered human when the stories were told toCelticaudiences originally.—Introduction.CONTENTS.Elin Gow, the Swordsmith from Erin, and the Cow Glas Gainach.Mor’s Sons and the Herder from Under the Sea.Saudan Og and the Daughter of the King of Spain; Young Conal and the Yellow King’s Daughter.The Black Thief and King Conal’s Three Horses.The King’s Son from Erin, the Sprisawn, and the Dark King.The Amadan Mor and the Gruagach of the Castle of Gold.The King’s Son and the White-Bearded Scolog.Dyeermud Ulta and the King in South Erin.Cud, Cad, and Micad, Three Sons of the King of Urhu.Cahal, Son of King Conor, in Erin, and Bloom of Youth, Daughter of the King of Hathony.Coldfeet and the Queen of Lonesome Island.Lawn Dyarrig, Son of the King of Erin and the Knight of Terrible Valley.Balor on Tory Island.Balor of the Evil Eye.Art, the King’s Son, and Balor Beimenach, Two Sons-in-law of King Under the Wave.Shawn MacBreogan and the King of the White Nation.The Cotter’s Son and the Half Slim Champion.Blaiman, Son of Apple, in the Kingdom of the White Strand.Fin MacCool and the Daughter of the King of the White Nation.Fin MacCool, the Three Giants, and the Small Men.Fin MacCool, Ceadach Og, and the Fish-Hag.Fin MacCool, Faolan, and the Mountain of Happiness.Fin MacCool, the Hard Gilla, and the High King.The Battle of Ventry.❦OPINIONS.These are thrilling hero-tales. No extract can do the stories justice. Any one taking up the volume will not be likely to lay it down without reading it.—The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, whose translation of the novels of the great Polish novelist, Sienkiewicz, introduced him to English readers, has shown equally admirable skill in rendering into English many ancient hero-tales of Ireland. The stories are marvels of exaggeration, and have a genuine Irish flavor. Champions, giants, fairies, and witches work their wonders and spells in a fascinating way.—The Outlook.The people of this country ought to be grateful to that accomplished American scholar, Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from varied and quite dissimilar foreign languages which he has added to our literature. His version of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz opens up to us a most interesting department of history, of which English-speaking people have hitherto been profoundly ignorant; and his latest publication, “Hero-Tales of Ireland,” is perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm of a wild, delightful, primeval Celtic imagination.—The New York Sun.[486]
HERO-TALES OF IRELAND.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.The tales included in this volume, though told in modern speech, relate to heroes and adventures of an ancient time, and contain elements peculiar to early ages of story-telling. The chief actors in most of them are represented as men; but we may be quite sure that these men are substitutes for heroes who were not considered human when the stories were told toCelticaudiences originally.—Introduction.CONTENTS.Elin Gow, the Swordsmith from Erin, and the Cow Glas Gainach.Mor’s Sons and the Herder from Under the Sea.Saudan Og and the Daughter of the King of Spain; Young Conal and the Yellow King’s Daughter.The Black Thief and King Conal’s Three Horses.The King’s Son from Erin, the Sprisawn, and the Dark King.The Amadan Mor and the Gruagach of the Castle of Gold.The King’s Son and the White-Bearded Scolog.Dyeermud Ulta and the King in South Erin.Cud, Cad, and Micad, Three Sons of the King of Urhu.Cahal, Son of King Conor, in Erin, and Bloom of Youth, Daughter of the King of Hathony.Coldfeet and the Queen of Lonesome Island.Lawn Dyarrig, Son of the King of Erin and the Knight of Terrible Valley.Balor on Tory Island.Balor of the Evil Eye.Art, the King’s Son, and Balor Beimenach, Two Sons-in-law of King Under the Wave.Shawn MacBreogan and the King of the White Nation.The Cotter’s Son and the Half Slim Champion.Blaiman, Son of Apple, in the Kingdom of the White Strand.Fin MacCool and the Daughter of the King of the White Nation.Fin MacCool, the Three Giants, and the Small Men.Fin MacCool, Ceadach Og, and the Fish-Hag.Fin MacCool, Faolan, and the Mountain of Happiness.Fin MacCool, the Hard Gilla, and the High King.The Battle of Ventry.❦OPINIONS.These are thrilling hero-tales. No extract can do the stories justice. Any one taking up the volume will not be likely to lay it down without reading it.—The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, whose translation of the novels of the great Polish novelist, Sienkiewicz, introduced him to English readers, has shown equally admirable skill in rendering into English many ancient hero-tales of Ireland. The stories are marvels of exaggeration, and have a genuine Irish flavor. Champions, giants, fairies, and witches work their wonders and spells in a fascinating way.—The Outlook.The people of this country ought to be grateful to that accomplished American scholar, Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from varied and quite dissimilar foreign languages which he has added to our literature. His version of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz opens up to us a most interesting department of history, of which English-speaking people have hitherto been profoundly ignorant; and his latest publication, “Hero-Tales of Ireland,” is perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm of a wild, delightful, primeval Celtic imagination.—The New York Sun.[486]
HERO-TALES OF IRELAND.
BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.
Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.
The tales included in this volume, though told in modern speech, relate to heroes and adventures of an ancient time, and contain elements peculiar to early ages of story-telling. The chief actors in most of them are represented as men; but we may be quite sure that these men are substitutes for heroes who were not considered human when the stories were told toCelticaudiences originally.—Introduction.
CONTENTS.
❦
OPINIONS.
These are thrilling hero-tales. No extract can do the stories justice. Any one taking up the volume will not be likely to lay it down without reading it.—The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, whose translation of the novels of the great Polish novelist, Sienkiewicz, introduced him to English readers, has shown equally admirable skill in rendering into English many ancient hero-tales of Ireland. The stories are marvels of exaggeration, and have a genuine Irish flavor. Champions, giants, fairies, and witches work their wonders and spells in a fascinating way.—The Outlook.
The people of this country ought to be grateful to that accomplished American scholar, Jeremiah Curtin, for the translations from varied and quite dissimilar foreign languages which he has added to our literature. His version of the wonderful novels of Sienkiewicz opens up to us a most interesting department of history, of which English-speaking people have hitherto been profoundly ignorant; and his latest publication, “Hero-Tales of Ireland,” is perhaps quite as valuable, with the added charm of a wild, delightful, primeval Celtic imagination.—The New York Sun.[486]
[Contents]MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND MAGYARS.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.CONTENTS.RUSSIAN MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.The Three Kingdoms,—the Copper, the Silver, and the Golden.Ivan Tsarevich, the Fire Bird, and the Gray Wolf.Ivan the Peasant’s Son and the Little Man Himself One Finger Tall, his Mustache Seven Versts in Length.The Feather of Bright Finist the Falcon.The Pig with Gold Bristles, the Deer with Golden Horns, and the Golden-Maned Steed with Golden Tail.Water of Youth, Water of Life, and Water of Death.The Footless and Blind Champions.The Three Kingdoms.Koshchéi Without-Death.Vassilissa Golden Tress, Bareheaded Beauty.The Ring with Twelve Screws.The Footless and the Blind.Go to the Verge of Destruction and bring back Shmat-Razum.Marya Morevna.Yelena the Wise.The Seven Simeons, Full Brothers.The Enchanted Princess.Vassilissa theCunningand the Tsar of the Sea.CZECHMYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.Boyislav, Youngest of Twelve.The Table, the Pack, and the Bag.The King of the Toads.The Mouse-Hole and the Underground Kingdom.The Cuirassier and the Horned Princess.The Treacherous Brethren.MAGYAR MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.The Poor Man and the King of the Crows.The Useless Wagoner.Mirko the King’s Son.The Reed Maiden.Kiss Miklos and the Green Daughter of the Green King.The Hedgehog, the Merchant, the King, and the Poor Man.❦OPINIONS.A volume as fascinating as any fairy book that was ever published; and simply for their wealth of imagination and rare simplicity of diction these stories will be widely read.… The volume, taken for all in all, is a distinct addition to literature, a priceless boon to scientific investigation, and a credit to American scholarship. The educated people of this country will do well to buy and read this truly remarkable book.—The Beacon.Will be welcome to many readers, not only to students, but to children, who find inexhaustible interest in just such folk-tales.—Public Opinion.At once thoroughly admirable and thoroughly delightful, … there is a surprising freshness and individuality of flavor in them.—Boston Courier.Stories of unique character, full of grotesque andmarvelousadventures, told with a beautiful simplicity of style which speaks well for the faithfulness of the translator’s work.—Milwaukee Sentinel.Prof. Jeremiah Curtin gives us a large collection of these tales, many of which are very interesting, many beautiful, and all strikingly curious.—Boston Advertiser.Mr. Curtin spares no pains in his researches into the early literature of the chief primitive races of the earth. Less than a year has passed since the publication of his admirable work on “Irish Folk-Lore.” The present volume adds his discoveries among three other important nations.—The Dial.[487]
MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND MAGYARS.BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.CONTENTS.RUSSIAN MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.The Three Kingdoms,—the Copper, the Silver, and the Golden.Ivan Tsarevich, the Fire Bird, and the Gray Wolf.Ivan the Peasant’s Son and the Little Man Himself One Finger Tall, his Mustache Seven Versts in Length.The Feather of Bright Finist the Falcon.The Pig with Gold Bristles, the Deer with Golden Horns, and the Golden-Maned Steed with Golden Tail.Water of Youth, Water of Life, and Water of Death.The Footless and Blind Champions.The Three Kingdoms.Koshchéi Without-Death.Vassilissa Golden Tress, Bareheaded Beauty.The Ring with Twelve Screws.The Footless and the Blind.Go to the Verge of Destruction and bring back Shmat-Razum.Marya Morevna.Yelena the Wise.The Seven Simeons, Full Brothers.The Enchanted Princess.Vassilissa theCunningand the Tsar of the Sea.CZECHMYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.Boyislav, Youngest of Twelve.The Table, the Pack, and the Bag.The King of the Toads.The Mouse-Hole and the Underground Kingdom.The Cuirassier and the Horned Princess.The Treacherous Brethren.MAGYAR MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.The Poor Man and the King of the Crows.The Useless Wagoner.Mirko the King’s Son.The Reed Maiden.Kiss Miklos and the Green Daughter of the Green King.The Hedgehog, the Merchant, the King, and the Poor Man.❦OPINIONS.A volume as fascinating as any fairy book that was ever published; and simply for their wealth of imagination and rare simplicity of diction these stories will be widely read.… The volume, taken for all in all, is a distinct addition to literature, a priceless boon to scientific investigation, and a credit to American scholarship. The educated people of this country will do well to buy and read this truly remarkable book.—The Beacon.Will be welcome to many readers, not only to students, but to children, who find inexhaustible interest in just such folk-tales.—Public Opinion.At once thoroughly admirable and thoroughly delightful, … there is a surprising freshness and individuality of flavor in them.—Boston Courier.Stories of unique character, full of grotesque andmarvelousadventures, told with a beautiful simplicity of style which speaks well for the faithfulness of the translator’s work.—Milwaukee Sentinel.Prof. Jeremiah Curtin gives us a large collection of these tales, many of which are very interesting, many beautiful, and all strikingly curious.—Boston Advertiser.Mr. Curtin spares no pains in his researches into the early literature of the chief primitive races of the earth. Less than a year has passed since the publication of his admirable work on “Irish Folk-Lore.” The present volume adds his discoveries among three other important nations.—The Dial.[487]
MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND MAGYARS.
BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.
Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net.
CONTENTS.
RUSSIAN MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.
CZECHMYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.
MAGYAR MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES.
❦
OPINIONS.
A volume as fascinating as any fairy book that was ever published; and simply for their wealth of imagination and rare simplicity of diction these stories will be widely read.… The volume, taken for all in all, is a distinct addition to literature, a priceless boon to scientific investigation, and a credit to American scholarship. The educated people of this country will do well to buy and read this truly remarkable book.—The Beacon.
Will be welcome to many readers, not only to students, but to children, who find inexhaustible interest in just such folk-tales.—Public Opinion.
At once thoroughly admirable and thoroughly delightful, … there is a surprising freshness and individuality of flavor in them.—Boston Courier.
Stories of unique character, full of grotesque andmarvelousadventures, told with a beautiful simplicity of style which speaks well for the faithfulness of the translator’s work.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Prof. Jeremiah Curtin gives us a large collection of these tales, many of which are very interesting, many beautiful, and all strikingly curious.—Boston Advertiser.
Mr. Curtin spares no pains in his researches into the early literature of the chief primitive races of the earth. Less than a year has passed since the publication of his admirable work on “Irish Folk-Lore.” The present volume adds his discoveries among three other important nations.—The Dial.[487]
[Contents]CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA.In Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of MankindByJEREMIAH CURTIN8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 net.An important work on the unwritten mental productions of primitive America, containing twenty long myths, all of remarkable beauty and exceptional value, taken down word for word by Mr. Curtin from Indians who knew no language save their own, and the chief of whom had not seen a white man until years of maturity.CONTENTSIntroduction.Olelbis.Olelbis and Mem Loimis.Norwan.Tulchuherris.Sedit and the Two Brothers Hus.Hawr.Norwanchakus and Keriha.Kele and Sedit.Kol Tibichi.The Winning of Halai Auna at the House of Tuina.The Hakas and the Tennas.Ilhataina.Hitchinna.Tirukala.Sukonia’s Wives and the Ichpul Sisters.The Finding of Fire.Haka Kaina.Titindi Maupa and Paiowa, the Youngest Daughter of Wakara.The Two Sisters, Haka Lasi and Tsore Jowa.The Dream of Juiwaiyu and his Journey to Damhauja’s Country.The Flight of Tsanunewa and Defeat of Hehku.The First Battle in the World and the Making of the Yana.❦OPINIONSA specially valuable contribution to folk-lore.—London Spectator.Nothing in literature is quite so perennial, so fascinating, so full of delight as folk-lore, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has given a volume of mythical tales, many of remarkable beauty, and all curious.—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.No writer of our century is better equipped to write such a book and make it historical, instructive, and interesting than Mr. Curtin.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.A permanent and valuable addition to the rapidly increasing literature of folk-lore.—Chicago Tribune.An intensely interesting and certainly a most valuable work. Mr. Curtin has brought to bear upon his subject great natural ability, the force of long experience, large attainments, and a very attractive style. His enthusiasm is admirable.—Independent, New York.No one man has done more to preserve the folk-lore of different countries than Mr. Jeremiah Curtin.—Boston Herald.LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON
CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA.In Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of MankindByJEREMIAH CURTIN8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 net.An important work on the unwritten mental productions of primitive America, containing twenty long myths, all of remarkable beauty and exceptional value, taken down word for word by Mr. Curtin from Indians who knew no language save their own, and the chief of whom had not seen a white man until years of maturity.CONTENTSIntroduction.Olelbis.Olelbis and Mem Loimis.Norwan.Tulchuherris.Sedit and the Two Brothers Hus.Hawr.Norwanchakus and Keriha.Kele and Sedit.Kol Tibichi.The Winning of Halai Auna at the House of Tuina.The Hakas and the Tennas.Ilhataina.Hitchinna.Tirukala.Sukonia’s Wives and the Ichpul Sisters.The Finding of Fire.Haka Kaina.Titindi Maupa and Paiowa, the Youngest Daughter of Wakara.The Two Sisters, Haka Lasi and Tsore Jowa.The Dream of Juiwaiyu and his Journey to Damhauja’s Country.The Flight of Tsanunewa and Defeat of Hehku.The First Battle in the World and the Making of the Yana.❦OPINIONSA specially valuable contribution to folk-lore.—London Spectator.Nothing in literature is quite so perennial, so fascinating, so full of delight as folk-lore, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has given a volume of mythical tales, many of remarkable beauty, and all curious.—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.No writer of our century is better equipped to write such a book and make it historical, instructive, and interesting than Mr. Curtin.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.A permanent and valuable addition to the rapidly increasing literature of folk-lore.—Chicago Tribune.An intensely interesting and certainly a most valuable work. Mr. Curtin has brought to bear upon his subject great natural ability, the force of long experience, large attainments, and a very attractive style. His enthusiasm is admirable.—Independent, New York.No one man has done more to preserve the folk-lore of different countries than Mr. Jeremiah Curtin.—Boston Herald.LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON
CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA.
In Relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind
ByJEREMIAH CURTIN
8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 net.
An important work on the unwritten mental productions of primitive America, containing twenty long myths, all of remarkable beauty and exceptional value, taken down word for word by Mr. Curtin from Indians who knew no language save their own, and the chief of whom had not seen a white man until years of maturity.
CONTENTS
❦
OPINIONS
A specially valuable contribution to folk-lore.—London Spectator.
Nothing in literature is quite so perennial, so fascinating, so full of delight as folk-lore, and Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has given a volume of mythical tales, many of remarkable beauty, and all curious.—Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia.
No writer of our century is better equipped to write such a book and make it historical, instructive, and interesting than Mr. Curtin.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A permanent and valuable addition to the rapidly increasing literature of folk-lore.—Chicago Tribune.
An intensely interesting and certainly a most valuable work. Mr. Curtin has brought to bear upon his subject great natural ability, the force of long experience, large attainments, and a very attractive style. His enthusiasm is admirable.—Independent, New York.
No one man has done more to preserve the folk-lore of different countries than Mr. Jeremiah Curtin.—Boston Herald.
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON
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