Browsing by Author "Babbitt, Ellen C"

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    • Jataka Tales 

      Babbitt, Ellen C; Young, Ellsworth (Century. NY, 1912)
      Eighteen fables, with a T of C on ix. These stories are clearly written for children. Some of the stories have more potential than is realized in these somewhat simplified and moralized tellings. How the Turtle Saved ...

    • Jataka Tales 

      Babbitt, Ellen C (The Century Co.. NYNew York, 1912)
      See my comments on the first printing of the regular edition (1912). It seems that School edition means only that the size of a page is smaller because the empty margins are reduced!

    • Jataka Tales 

      Babbitt, Ellen C (The Century Co.. NYNew York, 1912)
      This is a cleaner and thinner printing of the book I have listed under its first edition by the same publisher in 1912. See my comments there. Other than the quality of the paper (and therefore of the illustrations) I ...

    • More Jataka Tales 

      Babbitt, Ellen C; Young, Ellsworth (The Century Co.. NYNew York, 1922)
      Twenty-one fables, with a T of C before them. Again, I am taken first with the exquisite silhouettes. Notice the detail in the red-bud tree on 34, for example. Most of the stories are new to me. The fishes in The Three ...