Word: aesop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PANCHATANTRA - Translated by Arthur W. Ryder - University of Chicago Press ($4). Wisdom from east of Aesop...
...book whose cover says that it was "illustrated by Arthur Rackham." In fact, that one phrase makes a great many people want certain books which they might otherwise never think to buy. This applies particularly to grown people, who have read Peter Pan and The Water Babies and Aesop's Fables and Hansel and Gretel years ago. A great many parents now buy Rackhamized editions of these books and pretend that they are doing it to please their children. It comes to that in the end, but actually the parents are getting fun themselves. This season there...
Truly, Representative Oldfield has daubed no pretty picture of G. 0. P. corruption and Senator Phipps has outdone Titian in his wealth of beautiful color. Yet 2,500 years ago Aesop said, "On top, looking down, the view is different...
...Aesop's fables, Members accuse Belly of being a fat, lazy good-for-nothing, who does nothing but consume food...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...