Babbitt, E. C. / 2008-07-03 00:00:00

EBOOK, MORE JATAKA TALES ***


Juliet Sutherland, Tonya Allen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

MORE JATAKA TALES

Re-told by
Ellen C. Babbitt

With illustrations by
Ellsworth Young

[Illustration]

DEDICATED
to
RUDYARD KIPLING
in the name of all children
who troop to his call


FORWORD

The continued success of the "Jataka Tales," as retold and published
ten years ago, has led to this second and companion volume. Who that
has read or told stories to children has not been lured on by the
subtle flattery of their cry for "more"?
Dr. Felix Adler, in his Foreword to "Jataka Tales," says that long ago
he was "captivated by the charm of the Jataka Tales." Little children
have not only felt this charm, but they have discovered that they can
read the stories to themselves. And so "More Jataka Tales" were found
in the volume translated from the Sanskrit into English by a group of
Cambridge scholars and published by the University Press.
The Jataka tales, regarded as historic in the Third Century B.
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