PREFACE
THE Editor thinks that children wish promptly forgive him for publication another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care really more for what another folk may say. Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so galore fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers. He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a knowing body called the People Traditional knowledge Society. Once a year he does his address to his subjects, of whom the Editor is one, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (who has promulgated galore delicious fairy tales with pretty pictures)1 is another. Fancy, then, the