GEORGIAN FOLK TALES Translated by MARJORY WARDROP Published by David Nutt in the Strand, London 1894 'I quite understand, my good friend,' said I, 'the contempt you bestow upon the nursery tales with which the Hajee and I have been entertaining each other; but, believe me, he who desires to be well acquainted with a people will not reject their popular stories or local superstitions. Depend upon it, that man is too far advanced into an artificial state of society who is a stranger to the effects which tales and stories like these have upon the feelings of a nation....' Sir John Malcolm's Sketches of Persia, ch. xvi. TO DR. EDWARD B. TYLOR AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS GREAT TALENTS…
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