Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Household Stories
In this translation of these Household Stories, it has been simply endeavoured to render the homely talk of Germany into the homely talk of our own country. A few short pieces have been omitted to which English mothers might object, and principally on the score of that mixture of the sacred and profane which is common in German imagina tive composition. It may, perhaps, also be objected that in some of the Tales the expression, the greater the rogue, the better his fortune, occurs to such criticism the Brothers Grimm reply, The right use of these narrations will find no. Evil therein, but, as a good old proverb has it, a witness of our own hearts. Children point at the stars without fear, while others, as the popular belief goes, thereby ofi'end the angels.
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