Written by William Elliot Griffis
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
by William Elliot GriffisDutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, is a collection of Netherlands fairy tales compiled for the young readers by American orientalist William Elliot Griffis, who is remembered for authoring more than 100 books including the fairy tales collections such as Japanese Fairy World, Belgian Fairy Tales, Swiss Fairy Tales, Welsh Fairy Tales, Korean Fairy T..
Welsh Fairy Tales
by William Elliot GriffisWelsh Fairy Tales is a collection of fairy tales of Wales, compiled for the young readers by American orientalist William Elliot Griffis, who is remembered for authoring more than 100 books including the fairy tales collections such as Japanese Fairy World, Belgian Fairy Tales, Swiss Fairy Tales, Welsh Fairy Tales, Korean Fairy Tales, and Japanese ..
Corea: The Hermit Nation
by William Elliot GriffisTurning with delight and fascination to the study of Japanese history and antiquities, I found much that reflected light upon the neighbor country. On my return home, I continued to search for materials for the story of the last of the hermit nations. No master of research in China or Japan having attempted the task, from what Locke calls “the roun..
Korean Fairy Tales
by William Elliot GriffisEverywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the particular kind of fairies that inhabit the Land of Morning Splendor. Yet, if I live long enough, I shall write the wonderful histor..
Belgian Fairy Tales
by William Elliot GriffisWe Americans ought to know who the Walloons are; for, in 1624, some of these people—even before the Dutch mothers and fathers, boys and girls came—settled New York and New Jersey. It was they who introduced on our soil the marguerite, or white-and-yellow daisy, and they were the first farmers in the Middle States. Moreover, when New Netherland rece..