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WHAT THE MOON SAW:
AND OTHER TALES.

BY

HANS C. ANDERSEN.

TRANSLATED BY

H. W. DULCKEN, Ph.D.

WITH EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. W. BAYES,

ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL.

1866.

Uniform with "What the Moon Saw, and Other Tales," price 5s.,
extra cloth, on fine toned paper,

STORIES AND TALES

BY

HANS C. ANDERSEN.

TRANSLATED BY H. W. DULCKEN, Ph.D.

EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. W. BAYES.

ENGRAVED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.

* * * The two volumes, "Stories and Tales" and "What the Moon Saw,"
form the most complete collection of Hans C. Andersen's Tales
published in this country.

PREFACE.

The present book is put forth as a sequel to the volume of Hans C.Andersen's "Stories and Tales," published in a similar form in thecourse of 1864. It contains tales and sketches various in character;and following, as it does, an earlier volume, care has been taken tointersperse with the children's tales stories which, by their gravercharacter and deeper meaning, are calculated to interest those"children of a larger growth" who can find instruction as well asamusement in the play of fancy and imagination, though the realm bethat of fiction, and the instruction be conveyed in a simple form.

The series of sketches of "What the Moon Saw," with which the presentvolume opens, arose from the experiences of Andersen, when as a youthhe went to seek his fortune in the capital of his native land; and thestory entitled "Under the Willow Tree" is said likewise to have itsfoundation in fact; indeed, it seems redolent of the truth of thatnatural human love and suffering which is so truly said to "make thewhole world kin."

On the preparation and embellishment of the book, the same care andattention have been lavished as on the preceding volume. The pencil ofMr. Bayes and the graver of the Brothers Dalziel have again beenemployed in the work of illustration; and it is hoped that the favourbestowed by the public on the former volume may be extended to thisits successor.

H. W. D.

CONTENTS.