New Fairy Story

The Mermaid Man: The Autobiography of Hans Christian Andersen, a new abridged translation by Maurice Michael. 240 pp. New York: Library Publishers. $3.75

What we imprecisely call Fairy Tales were formally annexed to written literature early in the nineteenth century. As collected at their oral, folklevel source by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, they were not stories for children so much as stories in which