GOBLE, Warwick (illus.).

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Folk Tales of Bengal. First Goble edition. Inspired by the philological investigations of the brothers Grimm, Lal Behari Day, a reverend linked to the Free Church of Scotland, gathered these tales from Bengal's expansive oral storytelling tradition, speaking to an elderly Christian woman, brahmins, a barber, and a former servant.Day (1824-1894) dedicated his collection to the Indian Army officer Richard Carnac Temple, a member of the Folk-Lore Society and an assiduous chronicler of Indian folk stories.

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