Part 36 (1/2)

”Yea, let no craving for forbidden gain Bid conquerors yield before the darts of greed.”

42. It is curious to find that the story of Puss-in-Boots in its variants is sometimes presented with a moral, sometimes without.

In the Valley of the Ganges it has _none_. In Cashmere it has one moral, in Zanzibar another.

43. From Hans Christian Andersen, in ”Childhood in Literature and Art.”

44. ”Sartor Resartus,” Book III, page 218.

45. From ”Childhood in Literature and Art.”

46. See ”Eastern Stories and Fables,” published by Routledge.

47. See Chapter I.

48. In this matter I have, in England, the support of Dr. Kimmins, Chief Inspector of Education in the London County Council, who is strongly opposed to the immediate reproduction of stories.

49. These remarks refer only to the ill.u.s.trations of stories told.

Whether children should be encouraged to self-expression in drawing (quite apart form reproducing in one medium what has been conveyed to them in another), is too large a question to deal with in this special work on story-telling.

50. I give the following story, quoted by Professor Ker in his Romanes lecture, 1906, as an encouragement to those who develop the art of story-telling.

51. The melody to be crooned at first and to grow louder at each incident.

52. ”The punishment that can most affect Merfolk is to restrict their freedom. And this is how the Queen of the Sea punished the Nixie of our tale.”

53. The three stories from Hans Christian Andersen have for so long formed part of my repertoire that I have been requested to include them. I am offering a free translation of my own from the Danish version.

54. Alas! dear Augustin, All is lost, lost!

NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

My thanks are due to:

Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, for permission to use an extract from ”The Madness of Philip,” and to her publishers.

To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin, for permission to use extract from ”Thou Shalt Not Preach,” by Mr. John Burroughs.

To Messrs. Macmillan and Co., for permission to use, ”Milking Time,”

of Miss Rossetti.

To Mrs. William Sharp, for permission to use pa.s.sage from ”The Divine Adventure,” by Fiona MacLeod.