Publisher's Synopsis
English fairy tales is a collection compiled by Joseph Jacobs, Jacobs was born at Sydney, the son of John and Sarah Jacobs. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he won a scholarship for classics, mathematics and chemistry. He did not complete a course at Sydney, but left for England at the age of 18 and entered St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1876, and in 1877 studied at the University of Berlin. He was secretary of the Society of Hebrew Literature from 1878 to 1884, and in 1882 came into prominence as the writer of a series of articles in The Times on the persecution of the Jews in Russia. This led to the formation of the mansion house fund and committee, of which Jacobs was secretary from 1882 to 1900. English Fairy Tales steel: During these years he gave much time to anthropological studies in connexion with the Jewish race, and became an authority on the question." English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairytales in 1894 but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian Fairy tales which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the English language. English Fairy Talesg steel is novel written by the author is Joseph Jacobs a reat book highly recommended to read .
