But adequate as the plates may seem, if they are judged not as book-illustrations but as engravings, no one could rate them high, and as a book what is to be said of an edition of La Fontaine's fables, which fills four volumes, each measuring nearly nineteen inches by thirteen?
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
I snap my fingers at such fables.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
It was a melancholy fact that after working for fifteen hours a day they sat down to read mere fables about men and women more or less like themselves, and about children more or less like their own.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes