Lovely Ilonka
Lovely Ilonka (German: ''Schön-Ilonka''; Hungarian: ''Szép Ilonka'') is a Hungarian fairy tale published in ''Ungarische Märchen'' by Elisabet Róna-Sklarek. Andrew Lang included it in ''The Crimson Fairy Book''. Source The tale was collected by Imre Veres in Orosháza, in dialect, and published in 1875 in Hungarian magazine ', Vol. 4. Synopsis A prince wanted to marry, but his father told him to wait, saying that he had not been allowed until he had won the golden sword he carried. One day he met an old woman and asked her about the three bulrushes. She asked him to stay the night and in the morning, she summoned all the crows in the world, but they had not heard. Then he met an old man, who also had him stay the night. In the morning, all the ravens in the world had not heard. He met another old woman, and she told him it was well that he greeted her, or he would have suffered a horrible death. In the morning, she summoned magpies, and a crippled magpie led him to a ...
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Henry Justice Ford
Henry Justice Ford (1860–1941) was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as H. J. Ford or Henry J. Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children and were sold worldwide in the 1880s and 1890s. Early years After education at Repton School and Clare College, Cambridge - where he gained a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1882 - Ford returned to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and later, at the Bushey School of Art, under the German-born Hubert von Herkomer. Career In 1892, Ford began exhibiting paintings of historical subjects and landscapes at the Royal Academy of Art exhibitions. However it was his illustrations for such books as ''The Arabian Nights Entertainments'' (Longmans 1898), ''Kenilworth'' (TC & EC Jack 1900), and ''A School ...
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