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Your reviewer of Grimm's Fairy Tales (TIME, Feb. 5) must have been referring to the wrong page in his history of German literature when he wrote that "their [the Grimm brothers'] first publication, in 1805, was a collection of folksongs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn." This well-known collection of older German folksongs was published by the German romanticists Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano...
...TIME slipped on its dates. The Grimm brothers, proteges of Von Arnim and Brentano, collaborated on later volumes of the Wunderhorn...
Unlike the fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen, Laboulaye, Lang and Perrault, Grimm's Fairy Tales (as they became known in translation) were not primarily literary creations. The by-product of philological research, their collection began with the chance discovery by Jacob Grimm of a selection from the Minnesingers in the library of his law professor. Scholarly Jacob and his gentler, gayer brother Wilhelm, who had shared the same bed as children, the same room as students, from that moment dedicated their lives to tracking down, deciphering and recording their country's folklore...
Myth & Minstrelsy. From a tailor's wife of Niederzwehren, from peasants and villagers, from family friends and old nursemaids, from medieval manuscripts and ancient collections, the Grimm brothers gleaned the vast leavings of literature that had been blown into medieval Germany over the centuries by the winds of Hindu mythology, Irish balladry, Gothic minstrelsy. But today Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Tom Thumb, et al. have become so much a part of western folklore that the Brothers Grimm's labors in reviving them have been largely forgotten, watered-down, or vilified...
Pure Red and White. Despite the qualms and squeams of Victorians and 20th-century progressive educators, Grimm's Fairy Tales are naive rather than cruel. Their welling blood is a bright paint which stains each character in the true color of his wickedness. In the original Grimm, here reproduced, stepmothers are so hardhearted that the reader can have no sympathy with them whatever. The Queen in Snow White actually eats the supposed liver and lungs of her hated stepdaughter. Cinderella's stepmother will not acquiesce in her ugly daughters' loss of a throne merely because their feet...