Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern by Thomas Newbigging
Chapter 1 No.1
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'I shall tell you
A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it;
But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture
To stale't a little more.'
Shakespeare: Coriolanus.
'He sat among the woods; he heard
The sylvan merriment; he saw
The pranks of butterfly and bird,
The humours of the ape, the daw.
'And in the lion or the frog-
In all the life of moor and fen,
In ass and peacock, stork and log,
He read similitudes of men.'
Andrew Lang.
'The fables which appeal to our higher moral sympathies may sometimes do as much for us as the truths of science.'
Mrs. Jameson.
'The years of infancy constitute, in the memory of each of us, the fabulous season of existence; just as in the memory of nations, the fabulous period was the period of their infancy.'-Giacomo Leopardi.
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CONTENTS.
Chapter 1 No.1
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Chapter 2 DEFINITION OF FABLE.
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Chapter 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF FABLES.
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Chapter 4 THE MORAL AND APPLICATION OF FABLES.
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Chapter 5 FABULISTS AS CENSORS.
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Chapter 6 LESSONS TAUGHT BY FABLES.
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Chapter 7 SOP.
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Chapter 8 STORIES RELATED OF SOP.
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Chapter 9 THE SOPIAN FABLES.
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Chapter 10 PH DRUS AND BABRIUS.
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Chapter 11 THE FABLE IN HISTORY AND MYTH.
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Chapter 12 HINDOO, ARABIAN, AND PERSIAN FABLES.—PILPAY, LOCMAN.—THE 'GESTA ROMANORUM.'
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Chapter 13 MODERN FABULISTS LA FONTAINE, GAY.
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Chapter 14 MODERN FABULISTS DODSLEY, NORTHCOTE.
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Chapter 15 MODERN FABULISTS LESSING, YRIARTE, KRILOF.
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Chapter 16 OTHER AND OCCASIONAL FABULISTS.
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Chapter 17 CONCLUSION.
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