Evening Tales

From the INTRODUCTION. Once upon a time Mr. Wendell P. Garrison, the literary editor of "The Nation," sent me a picture he had found in a catalogue of French books. It represented a very interesting scene. There were the Tar-Baby and Brother Rabbit as natural as life; but Brother Fox was missing. His place had been supplied by Brother Billy Goat, whose formidable horns and fierce beard seemed to add to the old episode a new danger for poor Brother Rabbit. The picture was an advertisement of...