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William Elliot Griffis 46382t
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, is a collection of Netherlands fairy tales compiled for the young readers by American orientalist William Elliot Griffis, who is ed for authoring more than 100 books including the fairy tales collections such as Japanese Fairy World, Belgian Fairy Tales, Swiss Fairy Tales, Welsh Fairy Tales, Korean Fairy T.. 1x6j4w
William Elliot Griffis 46382t
Welsh Fairy Tales is a collection of fairy tales of Wales, compiled for the young readers by American orientalist William Elliot Griffis, who is ed for authoring more than 100 books including the fairy tales collections such as Japanese Fairy World, Belgian Fairy Tales, Swiss Fairy Tales, Welsh Fairy Tales, Korean Fairy Tales, and Japanese ..
William Elliot Griffis 46382t
Turning with delight and fascination to the study of Japanese history and antiquities, I found much that reflected light upon the neighbor country. On my return home, I continued to search for materials for the story of the last of the hermit nations. No master of research in China or Japan having attempted the task, from what Locke calls “the roun..
William Elliot Griffis 46382t
Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the particular kind of fairies that inhabit the Land of Morning Splendor. Yet, if I live long enough, I shall write the wonderful histor..
William Elliot Griffis 46382t
We Americans ought to know who the Walloons are; for, in 1624, some of these people—even before the Dutch mothers and fathers, boys and girls came—settled New York and New Jersey. It was they who introduced on our soil the marguerite, or white-and-yellow daisy, and they were the first farmers in the Middle States. Moreover, when New Netherland rece..