And there seated in the opening of our little tent, I began the strange tale of The House on the Borderland (for such was the title of the MS.); this is told in the following pages.

For her the Lambs wrote The King and Queen of Hearts (by Charles Lamb), 1805; Tales from Shakespear, 1807; The Adventures of Ulysses (by Charles Lamb), 1808; Mrs. Leicester's School and Poetry for Children, 1809; and Prince Dorus (by Charles Lamb), 1811.

When the hero is made the vehicle of one moral lesson, as Vivian, in Miss Edgeworth's "Tales of Fashionable Life," then there is no need of artificial ornament; and when there is no intention of presenting an unmixed character of evil, nothing remains but to draw from life, and the work is perfect.

" [Footnote 26: "The Fairy-Tale in Education," by Greville Macdonald, M.D., Child Life, Dec. 1918.]

I don't know anybody I could get to come forward and swear Fred was in their company that nightthere is a difference between fixing up a tale for the police before a man's arrested, and going into the witness box and committing perjury on oath.

Now, you know how a fellow gets to hate to go before the medical officers of the Academy with a tale about his teeth.

" "Can you relate this tale to us in a few words?" "I will try.

The "Tales from Shakspeare," by Charles and Mary Lamb, were published by Godwin in 1807, and a second edition was called for in the following year.

* Two Styles: A Tale with a Moral.

"PUNCHINELLO will prove a pillar of strength to Tammany Hall, unless the siege of Paris should prove disastrous to the consumption of lager-bier, as set forth in 'Boiled for her Bones' and other tales by the best authors.

Where is the carefully trained and upright soul that would not reject "JACK, the Giant-killer," or "Goody Two-shoes," if it could substitute (say, from "New and True Stories for Children,") a tale as thrilling as this:

"Do you boys think that I'd spring so thin a tale on ye, if it wasn't true?

Tell no tales out of school.

We hear the most improbable tales at this distance.

Old miners drifting about the desert edges, weathered into the semblance of the tawny hills, will tell you tales like these convincingly.

THE THREE FRIENDS THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER THE BLIND MAN OF ARGENTEUIL THE BRIDAL WREATH THE DUKE OF NORMANDY DUTCH ANNA THE LOCKSMITH OF PHILADELPHIA TALES FOR YOUNG AND OLD.

In fact, Heywood "cribbed" from Chaucer's Tales in another Interlude called "The Pardoner and the Frere.

My Tales (again) and Charles's Farce has made the boy mad to turn Author; and he has written a Farce, and he has made the Winter's Tale into a story; but what Charles says of himself is really true of Martin, for he can make nothing at all of it; and I have been talking very eloquently this morning, to convince him that nobody can write farces, &c., under thirty years of age.

"Because, sir, it is contrary to the spirit of the brigade of midshipmen to carry tales against each other.

Yet in his face he sends his tale before him.

Better a short tale than a bad long shriving: Needes anie more to learne to get a living?" "Now sure, and by my hallidome," quoth he 545 "Yea great master are in your degree: Great thankes I yeeld you for your discipline, And doo not doubt but duly to encline

In the former impression they gave twenty prints, illustrative of the twenty tales which compose these volumes, for they knew that it was a grievous thing and a disappointment to a child, to find some tales without the recommendation of a print, which the others possessed.

Tale after tale, jest after jest, fell from Wilhelm's lips.

For undoubtedly there is no one tale among all the Poetes, but under the same is comprehended something that parteineth, either to the amendment of maners, to the knowledge of the trueth to the setting forth of Nature's work, or els the understanding of some notable thing done.... As Plutarch saieth: and likewise Basilius Magnus:

Moreover, the friends who had spoken to him of Giuditta Astarita had told him similar tales within a few days.