Preface

>\OR the last time, for the present, I give
the children of the British Isles a selection
of Fairy Tales once or still existing

among them, The story store of Great

 

Britain and Ireland is, I hope, now
adequately represented in the four volumes which have
won me so many little friends, and of which this is the
last.

My collections have dealt with the two folk-lore regions
of these Isles on different scales. The “English” region,
including Lowland Scotland and running up to the Highland
line, is, I fancy, as fully represented in “English” and
“More English Fairy Tales” as it is ever likely to be.
But the Celtic district, including the whole of Ireland and
the Gaelic-speaking part of Scotland, still offers a rich
harvest to the collector, and will not be exhausted for many
along day. The materials already collected are far richer

than those which the “English” region afford, and it has