Excerpt from Some Prose WritingsAnd Faust, here reproduced with material altera tions, were originally contributed to a volume entitled National Tales and Legends, 1892, and are included in the present volume with the obliging permission of Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein Co. In connection with the paper entitled Babyology, I contributed some remarks on the history of Tom Thumb a year or two.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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