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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Joseph Jacobs</H1>
<H4 ALIGN=CENTER>(1854 - 1916)</H4>
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<H2>Books</H2>
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<LI><I>English Fairy Tales</I></A>, 1898.
<LI><I>More English Fairy Tales</I></A>.
<LI><I>Europa's Fairy Tales</I></A>.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=jacobs&book=celtic&story=_contents">
                           <I>Celtic Fairy Tales</I></A>, 1892.
<LI><I>More Celtic Fairy Tales</I></A>, 1894.
<LI><I>Indian Fairy Tales</I></A>.
<LI><I>Wonder Voyages</I></A>.
<LI><I>The Fables of Aesop</I></A>, 1889.


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<P CLASS=NOINDENT>From <I>Children's Literature: A Textbook of Source for Teachers and
Teacher-Training Classes</I> by Charles Madison Curry and Erle Elsworth Clippinger, 1920, 1921,
comes the following introduction to Joseph Jacobs:
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<P>Teachers and parents owe a greater debt of gratitude to Joseph Jacobs 
than to any other modern student of folklore. He was born in Australia in 1854, 
spent most of his life in scholarly pursuits in England, and 
died in America in 1916. In his six volumes of English, Celtic, Indian, 
and European tales he gave the world versions of its best known and most 
representative folk stories in a form suited to children while remaining 
true in all essentials to the original
oral versions of the folk. This com­bination of scientific accuracy and literary 
workmanship is very rare. In the intro­ductions and notes to these various 
volumes may be found a wealth of information which the general reader can 
understand without the necessity of special training in the science of folklore. 
And best of all, these volumes can be had at prices that are comparatively cheap.
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