- "Many of his early stories are Fairytales, ostensibly for children, in the mode of Oscar Wilde. ...[list of four 1894 to 1904 colls, re[-]sorted in two 1922 colls] and later examples were assembled as What-O'Clock Tales (coll 1932)."
--SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
(This coll includes some stories re-sorted from the four early ones and some presumably later ones, perhaps some original.)
- Encyclopedia of Fantasy continues, apparently regarding "Fairytales, ostensibly for children, in the mode of Oscar Wilde" in all four original and this partly-original collection:
"Compared to much that was published at the end of the 19th century, these tales are notable for their lack of cant, the occasionally prominent role given to female protagonists and an underlying sense of rather laid-back decency."
- SFE3 lists What O'Clock Tales among 10 "individual titles" (neither series books, nor non-genre) at the foot of its Laurence Housman entry by John Clute; it is one of two not mentioned in the text.
1st ed.
OCLC 913314335 has a description of cover (not jacket)
OCLC 776817850 has list of Contents
-- "Printed in Great Britain for Basil Blackwell & Mott Ltd."
Price from listing Manchester Guardian 1932-10-12 p5 "Books Received"
Publ date inferred from that and October advertise/announce-ment of a US ed.
Stella & Rose's Books (StellaBooks.com), Stock no. 1306705 as of 2016-12-13, provides list of Contents identical except:
"What-O'Clocks' (verse)" precedes the 15 items
"Tales of a Woodcutter" comprises 7 numbered sections(?)
"Tales of a Woodcutter" (see that Title) is entered as a novelette by analogy to "The Bound Princess" (1898).
UPDATE from USERNAME 08-04-2021: "Tales of a Woodcutter" is comprised of The Old Yew-Tree, The White-thorn's Story, The Wisdom of the Forest, The Wood-Fairies, The Wood-Find, The Happy Forest, and How the Waggoner filled His Sack. Updated info and contents' page numbers from photo seen on Richarddalbyslibrary.com.
