CHAPTER II

. SYMBOLIC-DIDACTIC GROUP=

=Fable=

Thomas Newbigging's _Fables and Fabulists_ (New York), critical and historical discussion of writers of the type.

Fables in the Bible, Judges 9:8-15; II Kings 14:9. _Kalilah and Dimnah_, or the _Fables of Bidpai_: an historical account with a translation into English, by Keith Falconer (London, 1885); _Hitopadesa_ (The Book of Good Counsels), translated by Sir Edwin Arnold: Oriental Literature, vol. III (W. G. C.), also in N. U. L.; Aesop's _Fables_ (Astor Library, Crowell; P. W. C.); _Fables_ of Phaedrus, translated into prose and verse (Bohn); La Fontaine's _Fables_ (T. C., Bohn); Iriarte's _Literary Fables_ (first publ. 1782), English version by Rockliffe, 3rd edition, 1866; Gay's _Fables_, in Muses Library (Dutton); Richard Steele's _Mastiff and His Puppy_ (Tatler, No. 115); _Kriloff and His Fables_, translated by J. R. S. Ralston (J. S. Ogilvie, N. Y.); _Turkish Fables_ [46 in number], translated by Epiphanius Wilson: Turkish Literature (W. G. C.).

=Parable=

R. C. Trench, _Notes on the Parables of Our Lord_.

Parables of the Bible: II Samuel 12:1-4; 14:5-7; I Kings 20:39-40; Isaiah 5:1-6; 28:23-28; Matthew 13:4-7, 24-33; 18:23-35; 20:1-16; 21:33-41; 22:1-14; 25:1-13; 26:14-30, 31-46.

For a summary of _Barlaam and Josaphat_, see Dunlop's History of Fiction, vol. I, pp. 64-77.

Hamilton W. Mabie's _Parables of Life_. A number of the stories in _Twenty-three Tales from Tolstoy_ (W. C.).

=Allegory=

James Baldwin's _The Famous Allegories_ (Silver, Burdett); Olive Schreiner's _Dreams_; Oscar Wilde's _Poems in Prose_, (Fortnightly Review, 1894), also in Ideal Series of Little Masterpieces; _Everyman, and eight other Moralities_ (E. L.); Henry Van Dyke's _Blue Flower_ (Scribners); Hawthorne's _Twice Told Tales_ and _Mosses from an Old Manse_ (Houghton). Alfred de Musset's _Story of a White Blackbird_ (Brentano) is a unique and daring autobiographical allegory.

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