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Description: By Flora Annie Steel (1894), e-text of the Celebration of Women Writers.
BY J. LOCKWOOD KIPLING, C. I. E. MANY of the tales in this collection appeared either in the They were then in the form of literal translations, in many cases uncouth or even unpresentable to ears polite, in all scarcely intelligible to the untravelled English reader; for it must be remembered that, with the exception of the Adventures of Raja Rasâlu, all these stories are strictly folk-tales passing current among a people who can neither read nor write, and whose diction is full of colloquialisms, and, if we choose to call them so, vulgarisms. It would be manifestly unfair, for instance, to compare the literary standard of such tales with that of the
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