FAVORITE
FAIRY TALES

THE CHILDHOOD CHOICE
OF REPRESENTATIVE
MEN AND WOMEN

ILLUSTRATED
BY
PETER NEWELL

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMVII

CONTENTS

JACK THE GIANT-KILLER. Charles Perrault

This Story is the Choice of:

Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley

President of Yale University

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

President of Columbia University

Dr. Henry M. Alden

Editor of Harper’s Magazine

J. F. Hosic

Professor of English, The Chicago Normal School

J. M. Pereles

Chairman of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission

CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. Charles Perrault

This Story is the Choice of:

Dr. Thomas R. Lounsbury

Professor of English Yale University

Dr. J. H. Canfield

Librarian of Columbia University

The Honorable John Bigelow

Author and Publicist

J. M. Pereles

And the Children of The Honorable Grover Cleveland

JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK. Charles Perrault

This Story is the Choice of:

Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler

Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie

President of the New York Free Kindergarten Association. Associate Editor of The Outlook

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Charles Perrault

This Story is the Choice of:

Dr. Shailer Mathews

Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Chicago. Editor of The World To-day

Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie

Dr. Henry Van Dyke

Author. Professor of English Literature in Princeton University

LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD. Charles Perrault

This Story is the Choice of:

Dr. Henry M. Alden

THE UGLY DUCKLING. Hans Christian Andersen

This Story is the Choice of:

The Honorable William J. Bryan

Publicist and Editor

Miss Jane Addams

Head Resident of Hull House, Chicago

HOP-O’-MY-THUMB.

This Story is the Choice of:

Henry James

Author

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. From the French of Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve

This Story is the Choice of:

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

LITTLE SNOWDROP.

This Story is the Choice of:

Howard Pyle

Artist and Author

THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS. Robert Southey

This Story is the Choice of:

F. A. Kendall

Secretary of the Illinois Pupils’ Reading Circle

SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED. Grimm

This Story is the Choice of:

Frederick Dielman

President of the National Academy of Design

THE WILD SWANS. Hans Christian Andersen

This Story is the Choice of:

Dr. Henry Van Dyke

Mrs. Alice Meynell

Poet and Essayist