As a child I was perhaps more fortunate than most because my father had collected three or four books on Folklore, so that, as well as the ordinary fairy stories which we had in our own nurseries, Grimm, Hans Andersen, Perrault, Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Arabian Nights, two of Lang's coloured fairy books, Jack the Giant-Killer, he Babes in the Wood, and a few others, I had access to Hartland's English Fairy and Folk Tales, Yeats' Irish Fairy And Folk Tales and Douglas's Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, all these in the Scott Publishing Library.