A comprehensive collection of tales edited by the American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States. Contains the following stories: Hans in Luck (German) Why the Sea is Salt (Norse) The Lad Who Went to the North Wind (Norse) The Lad and the Diel (Norse) Ananzi and the Lion (Norse) The Grateful Foxes (Japanese) The Badger's Money (Japanese) Why Brother Bear Has no Tail (Uncle Remus) The Origin of Rubies (Bengal) Long, Broad and Sharpsight (Bohemian) Intelligence and Luck (Bohemian) George with the Goat (Bohemian) The Wonderful Hair (Serbian) The Dragon and the Prince (Serbian) The Good Children (Russian) The Dun Horse (Pawnee) The Greedy Youngster (Norwegian) Hans, Who Made the Princess Laugh (Norwegian) The Story of Tom Tit Tot (Suffolk) The Peasant Story of Napoleon (French)