Of the twelve tales which comprise this volume, the first eight are from the master hand of Charles Perranlt. Perrault 1628-1703) enjoyed much distinction in his day and is familiar to students of French hterature for the prominent part he played in the famous Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, which so keenly occupied French men of letters in the latter part of the seventeenth century. But his fame today rests upon his authorship of the traditional Tales of Mother Goose; or Stories of Olden Times, and so long as there are children to listen spell- bound to the adventures of Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and that arch rogue Puss in Boots, his memory will endure.