Perrault's _Contes_ are essentially romantic; the Sleeping Beauty gives place only to Persephone,she and her sleeping household, shut in by the great hedge of thorns; but every tale has quaint human touches which puts it precisely at the right angle to life: the little girl, her basket of goodies, and the sick grandmother, all things of experience; and then, with a quick turn of the "World Upside Down"_the Grandmother that was really a Wolf_ in bed.
