Folklore Of The Telugus: A Collection Of Forty-Two Highly Amusing And Instructive Tales

It is within every person’s experience to enjoy with all attention the tales told by his grand old dames, to climb their knees, to share the envied kiss. There is hardly anybody, he thinks, who does not look back with fond attachment to those home associations, with those innocent sweet simple pleasures, whence first we started into life’s long race. We feel them, while the wings of fancy still are free, even in age and at our latest day. While the unthinking mind is satisfied with these grandmothers’ tales as such, the thinking mind goes a step further and endeavor?s to gather knowledge from these tales of childhood. Bare facts of history are not sufficient for the serious ethnologist. There are limits to the historian’s survey of the world. These tales appeared in the pages of the Indian Antiquary some years ago at various intervals. For the first time they are now published in book form. This book is very useful.