Publisher's Synopsis
"AS the scope of the first series of these Tales seems to have been somewhat overlooked, a few words of introduction may not be out of place be-fore this second volume.It seems that any simple form of fiction is sup-posed to be a "fairy tale: " which implies that it has to do with an impossible world of imaginary be-ings. Now the Egyptian Tales are exactly the op-posite of this, they relate the doings and the thoughts of men and women who are human-sometimes "very human," as Mr. Balfour said. Whatever there is of supernatural elements is a very part of the beliefs and motives of the people whose lives are here pictured. But most of what is here might happen in some corner of our own country to-day, where ancient beliefs may have a home. So far, then, from being fairy tales there is not a single being that could be termed a fairy in the whole of them.
