Fables from Russia

Abstract

Sixty-eight fables in a very nice thin little volume with simple engravings. T of C on 9-10. Many of Krilov's fables seem to be entirely conversation; an example is Cuckoo and Dove (58). The best of the fables here are The Leader (14), The Wolf in Distress (23), The Miser and the Treasure (25), The Pike who Served a Fox (37), The Elephant in Favour (39), The Musicians (usually Quartet, 45), The Sheep and the Wolves (53), The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab (60), and The Monkey and the Spectacles (63).