We are absolutely sure (which we scarcely ever are) that this book is a most pleasing volume.--_Saturday Review._
The form in which they are presented is admirable, and nothing could be better in their way than Mr. Batten's designs to illustrate them.--_North British Daily Mail._
Mr. Jacobs brings home to us in a clear and intelligible manner the enormous influence which Indian Fairy Tales have had upon European literature of the kind.--_Gloucester Journal._
Mr. Jacobs is a delightful companion into a land of enchantment, and his successive books are treasures.--_Notes and Queries._
The present combination will be welcomed not alone by the little ones for whom it is specially combined, but also by children of larger growth and added years.--_Daily Telegraph._
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without comment and include missing or end of sentence comma and period errors and missing or misplaced quotation marks.
Characters in bold Gothic font, in the Celtic language, with a single overdot accent have been converted to their sound (ex. th, gh, dh, bh, fh).
In all references to the "King of Moroco", the center "o" was accented with a macron (ex. Mor[=o]cos), which has been converted to a plain "o".
In the date reference of the final illustration the "th" in 19th was superscripted in the original text.
p. 17, "yon" to "you" (a gentleman such as you) p. 27, "Pwyll" to "Powel" (he returned to Powel) p. 42, "Tiernyon" (2) to "Teirnyon" (21) (... said his wife unto Teirnyon) and (... said Teirnyon) p. 120 "daugher" to "daughter" (59) (let my daughter go) p. 125, "hegoes" to "he goes" (and down he goes to) p. 134, "Ill" to "I'll" (I'll try that upon thee) p. 138, "daughers" to "daughters" (69) ("Oh," said the daughters) p. 236, "bo" to "book" (Get this book if you can;)
p. 178, closed-up blank space in unindented sentences between (... Rome to Rome to-morrow.) and (Unless you deceive me ...), and removed extra opening quotation mark.
"bagpipes" (1) and "bag-pipes" (1) "lapdog" (6) and "lap-dog" (3) "MacDougal" (1) and "MacDougall" (1) (re: Waifs and Strays) "pishrogue" (1) and "pishtrogue" (1) (A fairy spell to distort reality?) "West Irish Folk-Tales" (1) and "West Irish Folk-tales" (1) "tablecloth" (2) and "table-cloth" (2) (p. 208-9)