• Publication: Tales of Wonder: A Fourth Fairy BookPublication Record # 738581
• Editors: Nora Archibald Smith, Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Date: 1909-09-00
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
• Price:
  $1.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xiv+440
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: 1st ed. of the anthology Unillustrated September publication stated on copyright page (below). Price from listing in two-page publisher advertisement, The Dial 1909-11-16 p354: "The third unique fairy book in the well-known Children's Classics ... Fixed price, $1.50 (postage 14c.)" Hathitrust Digital Library provides full view of 2 copies with original cover (crimson with gold stamped design): -- title page -- Publishers' Note, v-vi, acknowledges previous publications of many stories (see the anthology record) -- "I Wonder!", p.ix, poem by N.A.S. -- Introduction, p.xi-xiii -- stories span p3-440; no back material Front inside cover promotes the series, now in "crimson" terms. Frontispiece page lists the series, now as "The Children's Crimson Classics" (now 7), ed. Wiggin and Smith. That series name replaces "McClure's Library of Children's Classics" under which the first three story anthologies were issued. The "Library of Fairy Literature" (now 4), evidently distinguished as stories not verse, is a subset.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 09-25758
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 444471

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • I Wonder! • poem by Nora Archibald Smith
• xi • Introduction (Tales of Wonder: A Fourth Fairy Book) • essay by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• 3 • I Wonder • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 49] • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of Per, Pål og Espen Askeladd 1844) [as by uncredited]
• 8 • What the Birds Said • (1893) • short story by Adele M. Fielde
• 10 • The Smith and the Fairies • (1860) • short story by J. F. Campbell [as by uncredited]
• 13 • The Grateful Crane • (1908) • short story by William Elliot Griffis
• 17 • Little Surya Bai • (1868) • short story by Mary Frere [as by M. Frere]
• 30 • The Storks and the Night Owl • [Die Karawane / The Caravan • 1] • short story by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Kalif Storch 1825) [as by uncredited]
• 41 • The Five Queer Brothers • (1893) • short story by Adele M. Fielde
• 44 • The Lac of Rupees • short story by Joseph Jacobs (variant of A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice 1892)
• 51 • The Emperor's Nightingale • (unknown) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Nattergalen 1843) [as by H. C. Andersen]
• 62 • Hookedy-Crookedy • (1900) • short story by Seumas MacManus
• 81 • Arndt's Night Underground • (1848) • short story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [as by D. M. Mulock]
• 88 • The Unicorn • (1895) • novelette by E. P. Larken [as by uncredited]
• 110 • Destiny • (unknown) • short story by Édouard René Lefèvre de Laboulaye (trans. of Le Destin 1865) [as by E. Laboulaye]
• 116 • The Queen of the Golden Mines • (1899) • short story by Seumas MacManus
• 125 • The Deserter • (1906) • short story by Louise Seymour Houghton [as by L. S. Houghton]
• 131 • The Two Melons • (1893) • short story by Adele M. Fielde
• 133 • The Iron Casket • (1894) • short story by Julius R. Haarhaus (trans. of Die Geschichte von Abdul-Kassim und dem eisernen Kästchen 1893) [as by uncredited]
• 143 • The Knights of the Fish • (1881) • short story by Fernán Caballero (trans. of Los Caballeros del Pez 1878)
• 150 • Dapplegrim • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 37] • (1859) • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of Grimsborken 1843) [as by uncredited]
• 160 • The Hermit • (1891) • short story by Voltaire (trans. of L'ermite (Zadig-Chapter XX) 1748)
• 165 • The Watch-Tower Between Earth and Heaven • (1906) • short story by Louise Seymour Houghton [as by L. S. Houghton]
• 169 • The Lucky Coin • (1891) • short story by Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso (trans. of O real bem ganhado 1575) [as by Francoso]
• 174 • The Jackal, the Barber and the Brahmin • short story by Mary Frere (variant of The Jackal, the Barber, and the Brahmin Who Had Seven Daughters 1868) [as by M. Frere]
• 189 • The Bird of Truth • (1881) • short story by Fernán Caballero (trans. of El párajo de la verdad 1878)
• 200 • The Two Genies • (1891) • short story by Voltaire (trans. of Le Blanc et le Noir 1764)
• 212 • Steelpacha • (1906) • short story by Louise Seymour Houghton [as by L. S. Houghton]
• 233 • The Buried Moon • (1894) • short story by M. C. Balfour (variant of The Dead Moon 1891) [as by uncredited]
• 238 • The Farmer of Liddesdale • (1891) • short story by Rev. J. MacDougall [as by uncredited]
• 241 • The Badger's Money • (1871) • short story by A. B. Mitford
• 245 • The Grateful Foxes • (1871) • short story by A. B. Mitford
• 251 • The Black Horse • (1894) • short story by Joseph Jacobs
• 258 • Truth's Triumph • (1868) • short story by Mary Frere [as by M. Frere]
• 271 • The Feast of the Lanterns • (1900) • short story by Marion L. Adams [as by uncredited]
• 278 • The Lake of Gems • (1900) • short story by Marion L. Adams [as by uncredited]
• 290 • The Sea-Maiden • (1892) • short story by Joseph Jacobs
• 299 • The Enchanted Waterfall • [Japanese Fairy Tale Series • 20] • (1894) • short story by Mrs. T. H. James [as by uncredited]
• 302 • The Amadan of the Dough • (1900) • short story by Seumas MacManus
• 313 • The Raksha's Palace • (1868) • short story by Mary Frere [as by M. Frere]
• 323 • Billy Beg and the Bull • (1899) • short story by Seumas MacManus
• 333 • The Princes Fire-Flash and Fire-Fade • [Japanese Fairy Tale Series • 14] • (1887) • short story by Mrs. T. H. James [as by uncredited]
• 337 • Panch-Phul Ranee • (1868) • novelette by Mary Frere [as by M. Frere]
• 361 • Schippeitaro • [Japanese Fairy Tale Series • 17] • (1888) • short story by Mrs. T. H. James [as by uncredited]
• 365 • The Stoorworm • (1908) • short story by Herschel Williams
• 376 • King Tongue • (1908) • short story by Aunt Naomi [as by uncredited]
• 384 • The Child of the Thunder • (1880) • short story by William Elliot Griffis
• 388 • Two Moqui Heroes • (1908) • short story by Herschel Williams
• 398 • Manstin, the Rabbit • (1901) • short story by
  Zitkala-Ša^?Zitkala-Sa
  (variant of Manštin , the Rabbit) [as by uncredited]
• 403 • The Ants That Pushed on the Sky • juvenile • (1892) • short story by Charles F. Lummis
• 411 • Longnose the Dwarf • [Der Scheich von Alessandria und seine Sklaven / The Sheik of Alexandria and His Slaves • 1] • novelette by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Der Zwerg Nase 1826)