List of figures; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; Further reading; Acknowledgements; I. SCOTTISH FOLK TALES; ‘Scottish Nursery Tales’; St. Andrews University Magazine (April 1863); II. CHILDREN’S FICTIONS; The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairy Land (1884); The Gold of Fairnilee (1888); Prince Prigio (1889); Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893); III. TR ADITIONS RETOLD; ‘The Terrible Head’, The Blue Fairy Book (1889); ‘The Story of Sigurd’, The Red Fairy Book (1890); ‘The Fleece of Gold’, Tales of Troy and Greece (1907); Explanatory notes.