HARVARD 55*24 ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1842, BY ELIZUR WRIGHT, JR., IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS STEREOTYPED AT THE NOTICE. THE Fables of La Fontaine were the delight of Fenelon, and have been in high favor with the best and wisest teachers of youth ever since. In translating them, it was my endeavor to follow the original as closely as I could, and produce readable English. The testimonies of my success in this respect are extremely gratifying. But, having reason to suppose, from criticisms both friendly and unfriendly, that the work might be rendered more acceptable to parents and teachers in other respects, I have, with some care, revised it for that purpose, changing many expressions, altering some fables, and entirely omitting a few. To save the expense of recasting the plates of the whole work, I have taken the liberty to fill up the places of those omitted, with others from my own They will be found marked with a star in pen. |