I have come across Mother Ross in our own chapbook literature, where the name may be traditional also.
A chapbook of the latter half of the eighteenth century bears the title, The Pleasant History of Jack Horner, containing his Witty Tricks, etc.
The version is strikingly similar to the one given by Jacobs in English Fairy Tales, which, Jacobs says, was "cobbled up out of three chapbook versions.
It has been translated into most European languages, Greek not excepted, and has become a favourite chapbook tale.
It is still read in all cottages of France, sold at all fairs, but sadly mutilated at each re-edition, and in its chapbook form reduced to a few pages, which is but a wretched fragment of a very delightful whole.
In fact, this chapbook might be described as the retaliation of the peasant on the townsman who in the 14th and 15th centuries had begun to look down upon the country boor as a natural inferior.
For all of his poetry that matters (there is an earlier, experimental volume which is not notable) has been issued during the past two or three years in the form of chapbook and broadside.
Each occupies a whole chapbook to itself, and therefore must be accounted, for this poet, of considerable length.
On the contrary, it seems sometimes completely reversed; and the good unthinking folk would find themselves nonplussed by such a piece as that called "The Poets are Waiting," in the chapbook which Mr Munro published at the end of 1914.
It is evidently a reprint of a chapbook of the time of Charles II.
This information we gather from a chapbook entitled "The Strange and Wonderful History and Prophecies of Mother Shipton, by Ferraby, printer on the Market Place, Hull.
The story of Whittington is still a favouritechapbook tale, and has its parallel in the fairy tales of various other countries.
The travelling stationers and packmen carried them in their thousands, in chapbook form, into even the most remote parts of the country, where they were bartered for and explored with avidity.
It was probably the success of the chapbook that encouraged the editors of periodicals early in the nineteenth century to enliven their pages with sensational fiction.
The English version of "Tom Thumb" seems to have been printed first in ballad form in the seventeenth century, and later in many chapbook versions in prose.
Mr. Jacobs calls attention to the interesting fact that the chapbook places the introduction of the potato into England rather far back!
This chapbook form of the famous "Whittington and His Cat" is the one reprinted by Hartland in his English Fairy and Folk Tales.
It follows closely the rambling events of the various chapbook and ballad versions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chapbook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: circular; folder; leaflet; pamphlet; tract
