Abstract Lovely full-color work showing four of Krylov's most popular fables: FC (I 1), "A Quartet" (IV 1), "A String of Carts" (also called "A Train of Carts," (II 20) and--in slightly different format--"The Wolf in the Kennel" (II 8). The latter card has no English translation included. Its color printing is especially effective. Notice for example the red nose on the lone human in the scene. The more access I find to Russian goods, the more I see that the Russians love their Krylov the way the...

Abstract I have found these four Brett cards from three different sources. The cards have an unusual feature. Brett's art takes up at least the upper half of the picture side of each card, with several figures from the story at the very bottom. In between one finds a title and the first few verses of the fable, finishing each time with three dots . . . which lead to the rest of the text on the verso. Are there more cards in the series? I find two particularly charming elements here. One has to do...

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The unusual thing about this set is the coloration of the photographs. The picturing of the dreaming of the milkmaid in the upper left corner of the card seems so similar to what I have seen in other postcard series of MM. Thils sries of five cards completes the narrative of this fable. Might there be a sixth presenting La Fontaine's following comment on the normal human habit of wishful daydreaming?