Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...both social and climatic, of a barbarous tribe. This fact may prove to be an argument against the probability of a general world-wide evolution of the household narrative and infavor of its dissemination from some one centre since the migration of peoples.1 In view of the many compilations of popular stories and folk-lore made in the various countries of the Old World, it is of especial interest to find that the unique one in America, the collection intended by Mr. Harris to preserve some of the pleasant features of the old Southern society of the United States, should surpass them all, not excepting Grimm's 'Household Tales.' It is evident, however, at first sight that little, if any, of the. solid material in 'Uncle Remus ' isof American origin. Commonplaces of preceding folk-lore, selected and joined together, form in the plantation tales adventures which ar assigned I Uncle Remus, his Songs and Sayings, the-olk-lorc of the Old Plantation,' by Joel Chandler Harris. New York, 1881. Nights with Uncle Remus, Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation/ by Joel Chandler Harris. t'oston, 1883. ' Lc Roman de Rcnart' par Ernest Martin. Strasbourg et Paris, 1882-187. 3 vols. et supplement. I. For a concise statement of the theories concerning the source and transmission of folk-tales, see the review of CosyuiH's Contes populaires de Lorraine' by Prof. Crane in the Mod. Lano. Notes vol. ii, pp. 87-91. to animals peculiar to the South. The local flavoring is also strong, and the setting is charac teristic of the new surroundings. By far the larger part of these negro stories concern the doings of animals. Race traditions and superstitions supply but few themes. In this respect they bear a striking resemblance to the only large collections of animal lore...
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