Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901 / 2008-07-26 00:00:00

EBOOK LOVE AND LIFE ***


This e-text was created by Doug Levy, _littera scripta manet_.




Transcriber's note: There are numerous examples throughout this text
of words appearing in alternate spellings: madame/madam, practise/
practice, Ladyship/ladyship, &c. We can only wonder what the publisher
had in mind. I have left them unchanged.--D.L.



LOVE AND LIFE

An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE


PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the
old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again
in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very
late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the
province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There
are, however, fragments of the same story in the popular tales of all
countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an
early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to
Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in
turn, _Beauty and the Beast_ and the _Black Bull of Norroway_ are the
most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those
legends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it
into 18th century English costume.
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