The British Quarterly Review (Volume 78) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... 290 Art. II.--Some Indian Stories. (1) Tibetan TaUs, derived from Indian Sources. Translated from the Tibetan of the Kah-gyur by F. Anton Von Schiefner. Done into English from the German, with an Introduction, by V. R. S. Ralston. (2) The Kathd Sarit Siigtira, or Ocean of the Streams of Story. Translated from the Original Sanskrit by C. H. Tawney. (8) Indian Fairy Tales. Collected and Translated by Maivk Stokes. With Notes by Mary Stokes, and an Introduction by W. R. S. Ralston. (4) Old Deccan Days, or Hindoo Fairy Legends current in Southern India. Collected from Oral Traditions by M. Frere. With an Introduction and Notes by Sir Bartle Frerk. Third Edition. (5) Folk-Tales of Bengal. By the Rev. Lal Behari Day, Author of 'Bengal Peasant Life.' We have poetic authority for the statement that the path of empire wends its way westwards. Whether this be true or not, there seems to be good reason for believing that the progress of popular fiction has been in a westerly direction. The light thrown upon the field of European folk-lore by recent researches has enabled its explorers to trace some of its products clearly back to an Eastern home; while others, which were at first supposed to be indigenous, are at least suspected of being naturalized aliens of Oriental extraction. However this may be, the mere supposition that a great part of the popular literature of Europe owes its existence to Asiatic fancy invests the legendary lore of Asia with a special interest, and renders widely attractive such collections of Eastern legends and fables as might otherwise seem to concern only the limited circle of Oriental scholars. Of two of the important but not generally known story-collections which have lately appeared in an English garb it is here proposed to give some...