Aesop Junior in America
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1834
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We have three copies of this book already, but they are in relatively poor condition. Here is a near-perfect copy, right from the glorious frontispiece of George Washington and the engraved title-page that places an American Aesop among the animals. Its one flaw is that it is missing the very last page of text, front and back. I have copied those texts from the web and put a printout with the book. An improvement of this copy over our best other copy is that it contains the full T of C. Metzner's note in Bodemann comments that two pages of the "Table" are missing also in his copy. One of the surprises in this book is that the final fable, "The Horse Resolved to be Free," is thirty-three pages long, twenty-four of them given to the moral! Generally the book seems to be sustainedly preachy. Even the short fables I tried present almost no action. For example, the crocodile's tears in XIV are called hypocritical by the vulture about to eat the crocodile's eggs (22-23). So? I have not seen this book elsewhere except in the Library of Congress, where I was able to ascertain quickly that it does not contain traditional Aesopic material.
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Mahlon Day
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