Transcriber’s Note
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of these changesis found at the end of the text. Inconsistencies in spelling andhyphenation have been maintained. A list of inconsistently spelled andhyphenated words is found at the end of the text.
THE
RED ROMANCE BOOK
EDITED BY
ANDREW LANG
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
1921
PREFACE
WHAT ROMANCES ARE
(To Children and Others)
I once read a book about a poor little lonely boy in a great house witha large library. This boy was pale, dull, and moping. Nobody knew whatwas the matter with him. But somebody tracked him into the library andsaw him take a huge thick black book, half as tall as himself, out of abookcase, and sit down and read it. The name of the