A Picture-Book without Pictures and Other Stories

A Picture-Book without Pictures and Other Stories (1848)
by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Mary Howitt
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FRANCIS & CO.’S

LITTLE LIBRARY:

FOR YOUNG PERSONS OF VARIOUS AGES.




A PICTURE BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES,

AND OTHER STORIES

BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.


HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

From a Painting by Carl Hartmann.

A


PICTURE-BOOK


WITHOUT PICTURES:


And Other Stories.


FROM THE DANISH


OF


HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.


TRANSLATED BY


MARY HOWITT.


With a Memoir of the Author.




NEW-YORK:
C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.
BOSTON:
J. H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON STREET.
1848.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Memoir of Hans Christian Andersen 7
A Picture-Book without Pictures 33
My Boots 125
Scenes on the Danube 133
Pegasus and the Post-Horses 143
The Emperor’s New Clothes 153
The Swineherd 164
The Real Princess 173

Francis & Co.’s Little Library.

A Uniform Series of Choice Books for Young People.

Flowers for Children: by L. Maria Child. No. 1, for Children eight or nine years old.
———No. 2, for Children three or four years old.
———No. 3, for Children eleven or twelve years old.
The Favorite Scholar, Little Chatterbox, Perseverance, and other Tales, By Mary Howitt, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and others.
The Robbins; Or Domestic Life Among the Birds: by Mrs. Trimmer. Designed for the Instruction of Children respecting their treatment of Animals.
Kate and Lizzie; or Six Months out of School; by Anne W Abbot.
Facts to Correct Fancies; or Short Narratives compiled from the Memoirs of Remarkable Women. By a Mother.
Turns of Fortune; All Is Not Gold That Glitters, &c.: by Mrs. S. C. Hall.
The Private Purse; Cleverness, and other Tales; by Mrs. S. C. Hall.
Russel and Sidney and Chase Loring: Tales of the American Revolution: by Eliza Leslie.
Claudine; or Humility the Basis of All the Virtues. A Swiss Tale. By a Mother: author of “Always Happy,” “True Stories from History,” &c.
Stories and Poems for Children: by Mrs. C. Gilman
Classic Tales: designed for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons. By the author of “American Popular Lessons,” &c. &c.
Holiday Stories: Containing five Moral Tales.
The Little Wreath of Stories and Poems for Children: by Caroline Gilman.
A Christmas Greeting; Thirteen New Stories from the Danish of Hans Christian Andersen.
A Picture Book Without Pictures; and other Stories; by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Howitt, with a Memoir of the Author.

IN PREPARATION.

The History of an Officer’s Widow and her Young Family: by Mrs. Hofland.
The Clergyman’s Widow and her Young Family: by the same.
The Merchant’s Widow and her Young Family: by the same.
The Affectionate Brothers: by the same.
Always Happy! or Anecdotes of Felix and his sister Serena. By a Mother.

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 This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.

Original:

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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Translation:

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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