Tales of Laughter: A Third Fairy Book

Notes

• 109 stories (manual count)
• The McClure Company acknowledges previous publishers "for permission to use" 56 stories listed by story title, publisher name, and anthology/collection title (few editor/authors). --"Publishers' Note", p. v (viewed at HathiTrust)
• No introductory essay in the series reveals the contribution of the editors to the texts of the other half of the stories.
• Contents listings in this volume are of two types, chiefly the first of these: : Little Tuppen (Scandinavian) : The Happy Family (H. C. Andersen) Story headings do not contain the parenthetical annotations. Stories credited in the Publisher's Note are from the following sources:
• The 3 Spanish tales are from Spanish Fairy Tales: The Bird of Truth & Other Fairy Tales, by {{A|Fernán Caballero}}. {{Tr|{{A|J. H. Ingram}}}}. Most of the German tales from pages 62-170 are from the {{A|Brothers Grimm}}'s Household Stories (1861) published by Routledge & Sons, many are not credited as such in the Publisher's Note. The following stories are from a different translation:
• 'Hans in Luck', 'The Fox & the Cat', 'The Fisherman & His Wife' and 'The Adventures of Chanticleer & Partlet' are from Grimm's Fairy Tales, published by J.B. Lippincott. {{Tr|Mrs. Edgar Lucas}}. Also from this edition though not credited are 'The Golden Goose', 'The Wolf & the 7 Kids' and 'The Elves & the Shoemaker'. For other editions not credited see below.
• The 4 Russian tales by {{A|Louise Seymour Houghton}} are from The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales.
• 'The Happy Family' & 'The Money-Box' by {{A|Hans Christian Andersen}} are from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. {{Tr|{{A|Mrs. H. B. Paull}}}}. Though listed in the Publisher's Note as from this collection, Mrs. Paull never tranlated 'It Is Quite True'. Its' source is currently unknown.
• The Southern Indian tales are from Old Deccan Days by {{A|Mary Frere}}. Most of the Scandinavian tales from pages 274-323 are by {{A|Asbjornsen}} & {{A|Moe}} and are from the 2 following sources: Fairy Tales from the Far North, translated by H.L. Brækstad. 'The Princess Whom Nobody Could Silence' however is by Asbjørnsen & {{A|Moltke Moe}} istead of usual partner Jørgen Moe. Tales from the Fjeld, translated by {{A|George Webbe Dasent}}. 'How Reynard Outwitted Bruin' is a retitling of the latter's 'Slip Root, Catch Reynard's Foot'.
• 'Little Tuppen' is from Fairy Stories & Fables (Eclectic School Readings-Second Reader Grade) by {{A|James Baldwin}}.
• The 2 stories from {{A|Edward Lear}} are from Nonsense Books (1888), though the second isn't listed in the publisher's note.
• 'Manabozho & His Toe' is from North American Indian Fairy Tales (1905), edited by Charles John Tibitts ({{A|C. J. T.}}).
• All the Chinese tales are from Chinese Nights' Entertainment by {{A|Adele M. Fielde}}.
• All the Swedish tales are by {{A|Baron G. Djurklou}} from Fairy Tales from the Swedish. {{Tr|H.L. Brækstad}}. Uncredited stories are from the following sources:
• The 3 Italian tales by {{A|Giambattista Basile}} are from The Pentamerone (1847). {{Tr|John Edward Taylor}}.
• The 3 Cossack tales are from Cossack Fairy Tales & Folk-Tales by {{A|R. Nisbet Bain}}.
• 'Hudden & Dudden & Donald O'Neary' is from Celtic Fairy Tales, edited by {{A|Joseph Jacobs}}.
• 'The Tail' by {{A|J. F. Campbell}} is from More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894), also edited by Jacobs.
• 'Jack and the King who was a Gentleman' is from In Chimney Corners by {{A|Seumas MacManus}}.
• 'The Nose-tree' by the Brothers Grimm is from The Reign of King Oberon (True Annals of Fairyland #3-1902), edited by Walter Jerrold.
• 'Three Ways to Build a House' is a retitling of 'The Three Little Pigs' from The Green Fairy Book (1892), edited by {{A|Andrew Lang}}. Mistakenly labeled as German instead of English.
• 'How to Tell a True Princess' by Andersen is from The Yellow Fairy Book, also edited by Lang. Mistakenly labeled as German instead of Scandinavian (Danish).
• 'The Story of Zirac' is an excerpt from 'The Two Friends' in The Fables of Pilpay (1872). All the English/Scottish tales on pages 197-244+335 are from English Fairy Tales & More English Fairy Tales, edited by Joseph Jacobs except for the following:
• 'The Old Woman and Her Pig' is from Six Nursery Classics (Heath Supplementary Readers). Author unknown.
• The other 4 tales from India are from Indian Fairy Tales, edited by Jacobs.
• 'Why the Sea is Salt' by Asbjornsen & Moe is from The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang. {{Tr|Margaret Hunt}} (Mrs. Alfred Hunt).
• 'The Farmer & the Troll' is from Fairy Life (Golden Rod Books-Third Reader Grade) by John H. Haaren.
• The Cock, the Cuckoo, and the Black-Cock' by Asbjornsen & Moe is from Popular Tales from the Norse. {{Tr|George Webbe Dasent}}. Mislabeled as English istead of Scandinavian (Norwegian).
• 'Bruno's Story' is an excerpt from Sylvie & Bruno by {{A|Lewis Carroll}}.
• 'The Giant's Shoes' by {{A|William Kingdon Clifford}} is from The Little People.
• All the Japanese tales are from the Japanese Fairy Tale Series published by T. Hasegawa.
• 'The Three Goats', 'The Fox Turned Shepherd' (both by Asbjørnsen & Moe) and 'The 7 Boys & the Monster ({{A|Robert Reinick}}) are from the magazine The Playmate: A Pleasant Companion for Spare Hours. The sources for the following stories are currently unknown:
• The Rats & their Son-in-Law' by {{A|Charles Marelles}}.
• 'The Mouse & the Sausage' (mislabeled French instead of German), 'The Three Brothers', 'The Young Giant', 'Seven at 1 Blow', 'The 5 Servants' and 'The Race Between Hare & Hedgehog' (mislabeled as English instead of German) by the Brothers Grimm.
• 'Why the Bear Has a Stumpy Tail' by Asbjørnsen & Moe. Mislabeled as German instead of Scandinavian (Norwegian).
• 'The Hare & the Fox' by {{A|Ludwig Bechstein}}.
• 'The Darning-Needle' by Hans Christian Andersen.
• 'Belling the Cat' said to be by either {{A|Aesop}} or Laurentius Abstemius. Mistakenly listed as English.
• 'The Magpie and Her Children' by {{A|Bonaventure de Périers}}. Listed as English instead of French.
• 'The Bluebottle Who Went Courting' & 'How 2 Beetles Took Lodgings' both listed as English.
• 'Wee Robin's Yule-Song' by {{A|Robert Burns}}.
• 'King Wren' is probably the Grimms' as well, but has been altered significantly.
• The story "Wee Robin's Yule-Song" is actually in the Scots language so is marked as such.

• 1st ed. of the anthology, unillustrated
• This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #54734 (see).
• Price from Doubleday, Page & Company panel advertisement "A Great Combined Holiday List", Chi. Tribune 1908-12-18 p9, which displays a central, highlighted button (quote):   McClure's Books including the works of more than 200 well-known authors   Now published by Doubleday, Page & Company Doubleday, Page uses the name "Children's Classics" here (later "The Children's Crimson Classics"), for books published by McClure as "McClure's Library of Children's Classics".
• HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover (crimson cloth with gold-stamped design): -- title page (with facing series list) Following the title leaf, the book contains Publisher's Note, poem by William Blake, Contents list (missing page xii), and stories -- no introductory poem or essay by Smith or Wiggin. -- stories span p3-467 -- 4 unnumbered back pages advertise this series alone, "McClure's Library ..." with secondary name "The Crimson Classics" (5 preceding anthologies).
• Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report xii+467 pages. Page [xii], containing the names and pages numbers for all stories after page 358, is missing (viewed at HathiTrust). The first begins on the facing page 3, which suggests that a leaf is missing (half-title as p[1-2]?).