The history of the Indian people in these ancient days is but imperfectly known, but the tales are a mirror of the customs and the thoughts of the people and, as such, are of far greater valuePORE WORD is to us than the dates and the names of a few individuals—the dry bones of history. [...] Among a considerably large number of these we may mention here the story of the milk- maid who while carrying a pail of milk on her head to the market, and building all kinds of castles in the air with the future proceeds of the sale of the milk, gives a jump of joy at the prospect of her approaching fortune and thereby shatters the pail to pieces on the ground. " This story, first related in the [...] how could the folk-tales of Bengal current amongst her peasant folk and her women break through the mud-walls of the rustic homes and the seclusion of the female apartments to find an audience in the world outside ? The Jittaka stories, the Panchatantra, the Ilitopadeca and even the Kathasaritsagara certainly obtained a world-wide celebrity in the past. [...] Some of the European scholars have proved that a close communication between the European and Asiatic races was established during the days of the Crusade Nvhen the folk-tales and the legends of the one country passed to the other. [...] In the Gaelic legends we have again a similar example in the account of the sons of Tuirenn carrying the three apples from The sons of Tnirenn the garden of the Hesperides.