Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

Hamilton Wright Mabie was born at Cold Spring, N. Y. in 1846. Mabie was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a wealthy Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose ancestors were French political exiles. Due to business opportunities with the opening of the Erie Canal his family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was approaching school age. At the young age of 16 he passed his college entrance examination, but waited a year before he attended Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869).


He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, and from Western Reserve and Washington and Lee universities. Although he passed his bar exams in 1869 he hated both the study and practice of law. In 1876 he married Jeanette Trivett. In the summer of 1879 he was hired to work at the weekly magazine, Christian Union (renamed The Outlook in 1893), an association that lasted until his death.


Fairies included in this beautiful compendium are: 


THE MAGIC MIRROR

(Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE ENCHANTED STAG

(Grimm's Fairy Tales)

HANSEL AND GRETHEL

(Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE STORY OF ALADDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP

("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")

THE HISTORY OF ALI BABA, AND OF THE FORTY

ROBBERS KILLED BY ONE SLAVE

("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")

THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR

("Arabian Nights' Entertainments")

THE WHITE CAT

(From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)

THE GOLDEN GOOSE

(Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE TWELVE BROTHERS

(Grimm's Fairy Tales)

THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS

(From the tale by the Comtesse d'Aulnoy)

TOM THUMB

(First written in prose in 1621 by Richard Johnson)

BLUE BEARD

(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER

(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

PUSS IN BOOTS

(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD

(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK

(Said to be an allegory of the Teutonic Al-fader, The tale written in French by Charles Perrault)

JACK THE GIANT KILLER

(From the old British legend told by Geoffrey of Monmouth, of Corineus the Trojan)

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

(From the French tale by Charles Perrault)

THE THREE BEARS

(Robert Southey)

THE PRINCESS ON THE PEA

(From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)

THE UGLY DUCKLING

(From the tale by Hans Christian Andersen)

THE LIGHT PRINCESS

(George MacDonald)

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

(From the French tale by Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve)


SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org