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WILDE, OSCAR Fairy Tales. Putnam.

WILSON, RICHARD The Indian Story Book. Macmillan.

WRATISLAW, A. H.

Sixty Folk Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources. Stock.

FOOTNOTES.

1. I venture to hope (at this long distance of years) that my language in telling the story was more simple than appears from this account.

2. This difference of spelling in the same essay will be much appreciated by those who know how gladly children offer an orthographical alternative, in hopes that one if not the other may satisfy the exigency of the situation.

3. See ”List of Stories.”

4. At the Congressional Library in Was.h.i.+ngton.

5. Letters of T. E. Brown, page 55.

6. Page 55.

7. In further ill.u.s.tration of this point see ”When Burbage Played,” Austen Dobson, and ”In the Nursery,” Hans Andersen.

8. ”Les jeux des enfants,” page 16.

9. A noted Greek gymnast struck his pupil, though he was applauded by the whole a.s.sembly. ”You did it clumsily, and not as you ought, for these people would never have praised you for anything really artistic.”

10. For further details on the question of preparation of the story, see chapter on ”Questions Asked by Teachers.”

11. Sully says that children love exact repet.i.tion because of the intense enjoyment bound up with the process of imaginative realization.

12. At the Summer School at Chautauqua, New York, and at Lincoln Park, Chicago.

13. There must be no more emphasis in the second manner than the first.

14. From ”Education of an Orator,” Book II, Chapter 3.

15. One child's favorite book bore the exciting t.i.tle of ”Birth, Life and Death of Crazy Jane.”

16. This does not imply that the child would not appreciate in the right context the thrilling and romantic story in connection with the finding of the Elgin marbles.

17. One is almost inclined to prefer Marjorie Fleming's little innocent oaths.

”But she was more than usual calm, She did not give a single dam.”

18. Published by John Loder, bookseller, Woodbridge, in 1829.

19. From ”Literary Values.”