Notes : * "On the Migration of Fables", by Max Mller, [1881], p. 188 NOTES. NOTE A. IN modern times, too, each poet or fabulist tells the story as seems best to him. I give three recensions of the story of Perrette, copied from English schoolbooks. The Milkmaid. A milkmaid who poised a full pail on her...
Appendix : * "On the Migration of Fables", by Max Mller, [1881], p. 181 APPENDIX. I am enabled to add here a short account of an important discovery made by Professor Benfey with regard to the Syriac translation of our Collection of Fables. Doubts had been expressed by Sylvestre de Sacy and others, ...
Untitled : * This monograph by Max Mller is a classic study of East to West migration of folk stories. He sets it up with a detailed study of the fable known to us as the Milkmaid and the Spilt Milk. This is the same theme expressed by the proverb 'Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.' He...
On The Migration Of Fables : * "On the Migration of Fables", by Max Mller, [1881], p. 139 ON THE MIGRATION OF FABLES. A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION, ON FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1870. From "Chips From A German Workshop", By F. Max Mller, Vol. IV, Pp. 139-198. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1881]. Scanned, proofed...
