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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

THE popular folk tales which have been adapted in this book have been collected from many sources. Among these special mention should be made of the early English-language periodicals, The Korean Repository and The Korean Review, and of the writings of the missionaries, teachers, and travelers in Korea during the last decades of the nineteenth century, as follows: Corea, the Hermit Nation by William Elliot Griffis; Korean Tales by Horace Newton Allen; Life in Corea by W. R. Carles; Korea and Her Neighbors by Isabella Bird Bishop; the works of James S. Gale; the articles and books of Homer B. Hulbert; Korean Games by Stewart Culin.

Much valuable material was found in the early writings of the author's father, Frank G. Carpenter, who visited Korea first in 1888, and with whom she herself traveled there in the days before that unhappy country was annexed by Japan.

The author also wishes to express gratitude to Pyo Wook Han, Korean scholar and critic, for assistance in checking the accuracy of her pictures of family life in Old Korea.