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Excerpt from Fables Fables of the chief among modern fabulists are almost as few in number as they were then. Mr. George Ticknor (the author of the 'history of Spanish Literature, ' in praising Mr. Wright's translation when it first appeared, said La Fon taine's was 'a book till now untranslated;' and since Mr. Wright so happily accomplished his self imposed task, there has been but one other com plete translation, viz., that of the late Mr. Walter Thornbury. This latter, however, seems to have been undertaken chiey with a view to supplying the necessary accompaniment to the English issue of M. Doré's well-known designs for the Fables (first published as illustrations to a Paris edition) and existing as it does only in the large quarto form given to those illustrations, it cannot make any claim to be a handy-volume edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.