I started reading this on Project Gutenberg today as I was off work (hurrah!). Now I know it was written over a hundred years ago, but it is pretty.. erm... well, racist, sexist, pretty-much-anything-else-ist...
Take, for example, "Tiger-Tiger".
Am I just being a grump?
OK then, what about The White Seal?
I'm pretty sure I'm not just imagining this... I'm going to carry on reading the full book tonight.