Excerpt from Some Prose Writings Three of the papers, Robin Whittington, and Faust, here reproduced with material altera tions, were originally contributed to a volume entitled National Tales and Legends, I892, and are included in the present volume with the obliging permission of Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein Co. In connection with the paper entitled Babyology, I contributed some remarks on the history of Tom Thumb a year or two since to the Burlington Magazine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.