INTRODUCTION • xv
THE KING OF GOLDEN RIVER • 3
by John Ruskin • illustrated by Richard Doyle
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN • 25
by Robert Browning • illustrated by George Cruikshank
THE ROSE AND THE RING • 37
by William Makepeace Thackeray • illustrated by the author
THE MAGIC FISH-BONE • 107
by Charles Dickens • illustrated by John Gilbert
MELILOT • 117
by Henry Morley • illustrated by Charles H. Bennett
THE FAIRIES • 129
by William Allinghamd • illustrated by Arthur Hughes
THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE AND HIS TRAVELLING-CLOAK
by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik • illustrated by John McL. Ralston
GLOBLIN MARKET • 193
by Christina Rossetti • illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
THE NECKLACE OF PRINCESS FIORIMONDE • 211
by Mary De Morgan • illustrated by Walter Crane
THE GOLDEN KEY • 229
by George MacDonald • illustrated by Arthur Hughes
THE STOLEN CHILD • 252
by William Butler Yeats
THE SELFISH GIANT • 255
by Oscar Wilde • illustrated by Walter Crane
THE BROWN OWL • 261
by Ford Madox Ford • illustrated by Ford Madox Brown
ROCKING-HORSE LAND • 319
by Laurence Housman • illustrated by the author
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON • 327
by Kenneth Grahme • illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
THE DELIVERERS OF THEIR COUNTRY • 347
by E. Nesbit • illustrated by H. R. Miller
From PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS • 359
by J. M. Barrie • illustrated by Arthur Rackham
ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS • 381