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OUTLINE
II. The transmission of fairy tales 167
  1. The oral transmission of fairy tales 167
    a. Examples of transmission of fairy tales: Jack the Giant-Killer, Dick Whittington, etc. 168
  2. Literary transmission of fairy tales 170
    a. An enumeration of the literary collections and books that have handed down the tales; as Reynard the Fox, the Persian King-book, The Thousand and One Nights, Straparola's Nights, Basile's Pentamerone, and Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose 170
    b. French publications of fairy tales 179
      1) The tales of Perrault 179
      2) Tales by followers of Perrault 181
      3) A list of tales from the time of Perrault to the present time 183
    c. English and Celtic publications of fairy tales 183
      1) Tales of Scotland and Ireland 184
      2) English tales and books 184
      3) A list illustrating the history of the English fairy tale, including chap-books: Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Hickathrift; old collections: etc. 184
      4) A list illustrating the development of fairy-tale illustration in England 188
    d. German publications of fairy tales 192
      1) A list of tales from the time of the Grimms to the present 193
    e. Fairy-tale publications of other nations 193
    f. American publications of fairy tales 195
      1) A list of tales from the earliest times to 1870 196
    g. Recent collections of folk-lore 200
III. References 201
 
 
V. CLASSES OF FAIRY TALES
 
I. Available types of tales 204
  1. The accumulative or clock story 205
    a. Tales of simple repetition 206