II. The transmission of fairy tales 167

1. The oral transmission of fairy tales 167

a. Examples of transmission of fairy tales: _Jack the Giant-Killer_, _d.i.c.k Whittington_, etc. 168

2. Literary transmission of fairy tales 170

a. An enumeration of the literary collections and books that have handed down the tales; as _Reynard the Fox_, the _Persian King-book, The Thousand and One Nights_, Straparola's _Nights_, Basile's _Pentamerone_, and Perrault's _Tales of Mother Goose_ 170

b. French publications of fairy tales 179

1) The tales of Perrault 179

2) Tales by followers of Perrault 181

3) A list of tales from the time of Perrault to the present time 183

c. English and Celtic publications of fairy tales 183

1) Tales of Scotland and Ireland 184

2) English tales and books 184

3) A list ill.u.s.trating the history of the English fairy tale, including chap-books: _Jack the Giant-Killer_, _Tom Hickathrift_; old collections; etc. 184

4) A list ill.u.s.trating the development of fairy-tale ill.u.s.tration in England 188

d. German publications of fairy tales 192

1) A list of tales from the time of the Grimms to the present 193

e. Fairy-tale publications of other nations 193

f. American publications of fairy tales 195

1) A list of tales from the earliest times to 1870 196

g. Recent collections of folk-lore 200

III. References 201

V. CLa.s.sES OF FAIRY TALES

I. Available types of tales 204

1. The acc.u.mulative or clock story 205

a. Tales of simple repet.i.tion 206

1) The House that Jack Built 206

2) The Key of the Kingdom 207

b. Tales of repet.i.tion with an addition 208

1) The Old Woman and Her Pig 208

2) t.i.tty Mouse and Tatty Mouse 208

3) Johnny Cake 209

4) The Gingerbread Man 209

5) The Straw Ox 209

c. Tales of repet.i.tion and variation 209

1) The Three Bears 209

2) The Three Billy Goats 211

2. The animal tale 211

a. The evolution of the animal tale 211

b. The animal tale may be an old beast tale 211

1) Henny Penny 213

2) The Foolish Timid Rabbit 214

3) The Sheep and the Pig 215

4) Medio Pollito 215

5) The Three Pigs 216

c. The animal tale may be an elaborated fable, ill.u.s.trated 211

d. The animal tale may be an imaginary creation, ill.u.s.trated 211

e. The Good-Natured Bear, a modern type. (See _Appendix_) 217

3. The humorous tale 217

a. The humorous element for children 218

b. The Musicians of Bremen, a humorous type 219