Fables, Vol. II
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Rousset, Alexis
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1854
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This second volume, covering Books VI-X on 288 pages, continues the mysteries of the first. It is missing 121-242 but includes at that point 121-172 of the first volume. The same pattern concerning illustrations continues. Some overlap, but – though this volume has more than that – many here are not there and vice versa. This volume thus includes a good image that should have appeared in the first volume for fox and dog, here facing (mispaginated) 127. At VII 3 (60) a pagan makes an idol of clay so that he can break it when it does not answer his prayers. "Bear and Monkey" (VII 16 on 91) is a good fable. A bear who finds a hammer learns to begin and keep working in order to craft a dwelling. VIII 1 (103) has a lively image for "The Bored Man and Three Guests." In X 18 (247) a pig will not associate with a donkey because it is beneath him. Finally in X 28 (268) we find the engaging fable of the beggar and the booklover. The former begs to spend time in the library because "I am like those books": "Je suis jaune, flétri, couvert d'un parchemin; mais j'ai vécu beaucoup, et je sais tant de choses!" 285 pages with a T of C at the end.
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L. Maison?
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