Publisher's Synopsis
This volume contains Tales for Children, including "God Sees the Truth, but Waits," "A Prisoner in the Caucasus," and "The Bear-Hunt"; Popular Stories including, "What Men Live By," "A Spark Neglected Burns the House," "Two Old Men," and "Where Love Is, God Is"; a Fairy Tale, "The Story of Ivan the Fool"; stories written to pictures, including "Evil Allures, but Good Endures," "Little Girls Wiser Than Men," and "Elias"; folktales retold, including "The Three Hermits," "The Imp and the Crust," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," "A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg," "The Godson," "The Repentant Sinner," and "The Empty Drum"; adaptations from the French, "The Coffee-House of Surat," "Too Dear!"; and stories given to aid the persecuted Jews, "Esarhaddon, King of Assyria," "Work, Death and Sickness," and "Three Questions."
