Chapter XXXIV: Appendix

In this Appendix are given lists of masterpieces of children's literature which, for reasons stated in the Preface, could not be included in this collection. The editor has attempted to limit the lists of books to those which, in his judgment, are undoubted masterpieces, yet at the same time to include the books in the different types with which students in normal school and college classes in children's literature need to be familiar. These books should be in the reference library at the disposal of the students, and reports and conferences on them should form a part of the course in children's literature.

A brief bibliography of books dealing with literature for children is appended. The teacher of the class in children's literature should know some of these books, and perhaps use one as a text to guide his work.

COLLECTIONS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

ELIOT, C. W. _The Junior Classics_. 8 vols. P. F. Collier & Sons, New York.

SCUDDER, H. E. _The Children's Book_. 1 vol. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

TAPPAN, E. M. The Children's Hour. 10 vols. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

Among school readers, the _Heart of Oak_ series, edited by Charles Eliot Norton (D. C. Heath & Co., New York), is the most profuse in literary masterpieces.

COLLECTIONS OF MOTHER GOOSE VERSES

HALLIWELL, J. O. _The Nursery Rhymes of England_. Frederick Warne & Co., New York.

LANG, A. _The Nursery Rhyme Book_. Frederick Warne & Co., New York.

SAINTSBURY, G. E. B. _National Rhymes of the Nursery_. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.

WELSH, C. _Mother Goose: A Book of Nursery Rhymes_. D. C. Heath & Co., New York.

WHEELER, W. _A. Mother Goose's Melodies_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

CHILDREN'S POETS

In addition to the children's poets represented on pages 13-36, the following books of children's poems should be in the school library:

BROWN, A. F. _A Pocketful of Posies_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

GARY, A. and P. _Poems for Children_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, (In _Cary's Poetical Works_.)

DODGE, M. _Rhymes and Jingles._ Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

DOWD. _The Owl and the Bobolink._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

EARLS, M. _Ballads of Childhood._ Benziger Brothers, New York.

FIELD, E. _Songs of Childhood._ Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

LAMB, C. _Poetry for Children._ E. P. Button & Co., New York. (Volume 8 of Works of Charles Lamb.)

PEABODY, J. P. _The Book of the Little Past._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

RICHARDS, L. E. _In My Nursery._ Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

RILEY, J. W. _Rhymes of Childhood._ Bobbs-Merjill Company, Indianapolis.

SHERMAN, F. D. _Little-Folk Lyrics._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

TAGORE, R. _The Crescent Moon._ Macmillan Company, New York.

WELLS, C. _The Jingle Book._ Macmillan Company, New York.

ANTHOLOGIES OF CHILDREN'S POETRY

CHISHOLM, L. _The Golden Staircase._ G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

HAZARD, B. _Three Years with the Poets._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

HENLEY, W. E. _Lyra Heroica._ Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

LUCAS, E. V. _A Book of Verses for Children._ Henry Holt & Co., New York.

PALGRAVE, F. _Children's Treasury of English Song._ Macmillan Company, New York.

REPPLIER, A. _A Book of Famous Verse._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

STEVENSON, B. _The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks._ Henry Holt & Co., New York.

THACHER, L. W. _The Listening Child._ Macmillan Company, New York.

WIGGIN, K. D., and SMITH, N. A. _Golden Numbers._ McClure Company, New York.

ANONYMOUS. _Our Children's Songs._ Harper and Brothers, New York.

FAIRY STORIES

In addition to the collections of fairy stories mentioned in the notes, the following collections contain first-rate material:

Folk Tales

JACOBS, J. _More English Fairy Tales and Celtic Fairy Tales._ G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

LANG, A. _The Blue Fairy Book and The Green Fairy Book._ Longmans, Green & Co., New York.

RHYS, E. _The English Fairy Book._ Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.

SCUDDER, H. E. _Book of Fables and Folk Stories._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

WIGGIN, K. D., and SMITH, N. A. _The Fairy Ring._ McClure Company, New York,

NEGRO FOLK TALES

HARRIS, J. C. _Nights with Uncle Remus_ and _Uncle Remus and His Friends_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

MODERN FAIRY TALES

BARRIE, J. M. _Peter Pan_. Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston.

CARROLL, L. _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ and _Through the Looking-Glass_. Macmillan Company, New York.

COLLODI, C. _Adventures of Pinocchio_. Ginn & Co., Boston.

INGELOW, J. _Mopsa the Fairy_. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. _Three Fairy Tales_. D. C. Heath & Co., New York.

KINGSLEY, C. _Water Babies_. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York.

LANG, A. _Prince Prigio_. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.

MAETERLINCK, M. _The Blue Bird for Children_. Silver, Burdett & Co., Boston.

MACDONALD, G. _The Princess and the Goblin_. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.

ROSTAND, E. _The Story of Chanticleer_. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York.

STOCKTON, F. R. _Fanciful Tales and The Floating Prince_. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

THACKERAY, W. M. _The Rose and the Ring_. D. C. Heath & Co., New York.

HOMERIC STORIES

No selection from the classic stories of Homer have been included in the present collection, having been ruled out by the principle that nothing but complete units must be presented. But every child must be exposed to the charm of the wonderful story-teller of Greece. If the child prefers verse--and Homer's stories are at their best in good verse--Bryant's translation should be used (Students' Edition, 2 vols. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston). Perhaps the best prose translation is that of Palmer (Houghton Mifflin Company).

MYTHS

In addition to the Kingsley and Hawthorne stories of the Greek myths and legends, the child's library should contain Mrs. Peabody's _Old Greek Folk Stories_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston).

HERO STORIES

Preeminent among the stories in which the chief element of interest is that which arises from the deeds of heroic characters, are the Robin Hood and the King Arthur stories. The Robin Hood tales contain material unusually interesting and valuable for children; but, though they have been told and retold times without number, there is but one version that may properly be called a "masterpiece." This is the Howard Pyle version, _Merry Adventures of Robin Hood_ (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York). A less expensive edition is called _Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood_.

The King Arthur cycle is at its best in the Malory version (_Le Morte d'Arthur_, by Sir Thomas Malory. _Everyman's_ series. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York). This, however, is somewhat too diffuse and too difficult for any child but a bookish one. Sidney Lanier's version of the stories (_The Boy's King Arthur_, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York) is a masterpiece of narration for youthful readers, and it is faithful to the atmosphere and spirit of the Malory stories.

The hero stories in Plutarch are among the choicest of stories in this type. Edwin Ginn's edition (Ginn & Co., Boston) is an admirable one. It is based on the Clough translation, which was based, in turn, on the so-called Dryden version.

ANIMAL AND NATURE STORIES AND SKETCHES

BURROUGHS, J. _Wake Robin_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

KIPLING, R. _Jungle Book_ and _Just-So Stories_. Century Company, New York.

LONG, W. J. _A Little Brother to the Bear_. Ginn & Co., Boston.

MILLER, J. _True Bear Stories_. Rand-McNally & Co., Chicago.

Mum, J. _Stickeen._ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. A most charming and thrilling story of a dog.

ROBERTS, C. G. D. _Kindred of the Wild_. Grosset & Dunlap, New York.

SEGUR, S. Story of a Donkey. D. C. Heath & Co., New York.

SETON THOMPSON, E. _Wild Animals I Have Known_. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

MISCELLANEOUS STORIES

(Chiefly Fiction)

ALCOTT, L. M. _Little Men and Little Women_. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

ALDRICH, T. B. _Story of a Bad Boy_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

BLACKMORE, R. D. _Lorna Doone_. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York.

BUNYAN, J. _Pilgrim's Progress_. Ginn & Co., Boston.

CLEMENS, S. L. _Tom Sawyer_, _Huckleberry Finn_, and _The Prince and the Pauper_. Harper and Brothers, New York.

COOPER, J. F. _Deerslayer_ and _Last of the Mohicans_. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

DEFOE, D. _Robinson Crusoe_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

FRANKLIN, B. _Autobiography_. D. C. Heath & Co., New York.

HALE, E. E. _The Man Without a Country_. Ginn & Co., Boston.

HALE, L. _Peterkin Papers_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

HUGHES, T. _Tom Brown's School Days_. Rand-McNally & Co., Chicago.

SCOTT, W. _Quentin Durward and Ivanhoe_. Dana Estes & Co., Boston.

STEVENSON, R. L. _Treasure Island_. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

SWIFT, J. _Gulliver's Travels_. D. C. Heath & Co., New York.

BOOKS ON CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

BARNES, W. _English in the Country School_. Row, Peterson & Co., Chicago.

CARPENTER, BAKER, and SCOTT. _The Teaching of English_. Longmans, Green & Co., New York.

CHUBB, P. _Teaching of English_ (elementary school edition). Macmillan Company, New York.

COLBY, J. R. _Literature and Life in the School_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

COX, J. H. _Literature in the Common Schools_. Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

FIELD, W. T. _Fingerposts to Children's Reading_. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.

HUNT. _What Shall We Read to the Children_? Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

LEE, G. S. _The Child and the Book_. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

LOWE. _Literature for Children_. Macmillan Company, New York.

MACCLINTOCK, P. L. _Literature in the Elementary School_. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

OLCOTT, F. J. _The Children's Reading_. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.

NOTES

Page 1. Attention is directed to the classification of the Nursery Jingles as indicated in the Contents. Several classifications of the Jingles, from one standpoint or another, have been made, that by J. O. Halliwell being the most elaborate, and that by the late Charles Welsh being, perhaps, the most logical. The present classification is to indicate more clearly the content, the source, the point, the "intrinsic motive" of the Jingles. It is hoped that this new classification will at least make conspicuous the scope and variety, and the widely varying sources and themes, of the verses that children have been selecting and scholars have been collecting under the generic name of Nursery Jingles or Mother Goose Verses.

There are, of course, different versions of the Jingles, as there are of any truly "popular" form of literature. Of not many Jingles can it be said that any version is the oldest, the authoritative, the real version. The editor, therefore, despairing of finding the most accurate version, has endeavored to find the best. In many instances the best seemed the one he had heard in childhood rather than the one printed in any of the collections. The collection found most useful is Lang's _The Nursery Rhyme Book_ (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1897). The editor has tried to select those specimens that would give teacher and class as many characteristic Mother Goose elements, touches, rhythms, and styles as possible. Many of the Jingles in this collection have not been printed before--at least, not to the editor's knowledge. He believes, however, that they are all genuine Folk Jingles, and he hopes that their quaintness and novelty will justify their appearance here.

Page 13. The poems from Blake are from _Poetical Works_ (George Bell & Sons, London, 1909). The three poems are from the series called _Songs of Innocence_.

Page 15. Christina Rossetti's poems are from _Sing-Song_ (Macmillan & Co., London, 1907). The poems are not given titles in this, the authoritative edition.

Page 17. Stevenson's poems are from _Complete Poems_ (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912). The poems reprinted here are all from the series called _A Child's Garden of Verses_. There are many good editions of the _Child's Garden_, the Scribner edition being one of the most beautiful.

Page 20. The Lucy Larcom pieces are from _Childhood Songs_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1874), and are here used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

Page 22. The four poems of the Taylors' are from E. V. Lucas's edition of _The Original Poems and Others_ (Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., London, 1903). The readings given here follow the last revision by Ann Taylor, some years after the death of Jane. In the case of "The Star" the more familiar version seemed, to the present editor, the better, but he felt that he should conform to the reading that seems to have the strongest authority. No attempt is made to discriminate between the poems of the two sisters; all the poems are here ascribed to them jointly.

Page 26. The first two poems of Watts' are from _Divine Songs for Children_; the third poem, from _Moral Songs_, or, to give it its full title, _A Slight Specimen of Moral Songs, such as I wish some happy and condescending genius would undertake for the use of children, and perform much better_. The two collections of poems for children are to be found in Watts's _Horæ Lyricæ_ (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1864). The advertisement to this edition states that "the volume is reprinted, with many corrections," from the quarto edition of Watts's entire works, published in 1753. Stanzas 5-10 and stanzas 12 and 14 have been omitted from the text of "A Cradle Hymn." They are given here, that the student may have before him an illustration of how necessary it is occasionally to expurgate material set before children.

5. Blessed babe! what glorious features,
Spotless fair, divinely bright!
Must he dwell with brutal creatures?
How could angels bear the sight!

6. Was there nothing but a manger
Cursed sinners could afford,
To receive the heavenly Stranger?
Did they thus affront their Lord?

7. Soft, my child; I did not chide thee,
Though my song might sound too hard;
'Tis thy mother sits beside thee,
And her arms shall be thy guard.

8. Yet to read the shameful story,
How the Jews abus'd their King,
How they serv'd the Lord of Glory,
Makes me angry while I sing.

9. See the kinder shepherds round him,
Telling wonders from the sky;
There they sought him, there they found him,
With his virgin mother by.

10. See the lovely babe a-dressing;
Lovely infant, how he smil'd!
When he wept, the mother's blessing
Sooth'd and hush'd the holy child.

12. 'Twas to save thee, child, from dying,
Save my dear from burning flame,
Bitter groans and endless crying,
That thy blest Redeemer came.

14. I could give thee thousand kisses,
Hoping what I most desire;
Not a mother's fondest wishes
Can to greater joys aspire.

Page 28. Lewis Carroll's poems reprinted here are from _The Hunting of the Snark, and Other Poems_ (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1903). "Father William" is from _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_; the others are from _Through the Looking-Glass_. All three poems are much better fun when read in their original setting.

Page 33. Edward Lear's poems are from _Nonsense Books_ (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1888). This includes all four of the Nonsense books by Lear: _Book of Nonsense_, 1846; _Nonsense Songs, Stories, etc._, 1871; _More Nonsense Pictures_, etc., 1872; and _Laughable Lyrics: A Fresh Book of Nonsense, etc._, 1877.

Page 37. The ballad of "Bonny Barbara Allan" is from Percy's _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_ (Frederick Warne & Co., New York, 1880). The spelling is modernized. Stanzas 5-8 have been inserted. They were discovered in Buchanan County, Virginia, by Professor C. Alphonso Smith, of the University of Virginia, and printed in his monograph, _Ballads Surviving in the United States_ (G. Schirmer, New York, 1916). This and dozens of other "popular" ballads are still sung in the mountains of the Southern states; undoubtedly they have been transmitted orally for generations.

Page 38. "Sir Patrick Spence" is from Percy's _Reliques_, the edition above mentioned. In the editor's opinion, this is the most effective of the several versions of this beautiful ballad.

Page 40. This version of "Robin Hood and Allin a Dale" is from Sargent and Kittredge's _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1904).

Page 43. "Kinmont Willie" is from _The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, together with The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_ (J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1880). Sir Walter, in his introduction to the ballad, states that because the piece had been "much mangled by reciters," "some conjectural emendations have been absolutely necessary to render it intelligible." As no other version of the ballad has ever been discovered, no one knows just how many "conjectural emendations" Sir Walter made. It is safe to say, however, that the poet's taste and antiquarian interests would prevent his taking unwarrantable liberties with the original. In its present form it is one of the finest of the ballads, whatever change it may have suffered in passing through Scott's hands.

Page 49. This poem of Longfellow's and "A Psalm of Life," page 83, are from _Complete Poetical Works_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1893). They are used by permission.

Page 52. "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and the Keats poem on page 75 are from _Complete Poetical Works and Letters_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1899). Lord Houghton's version, as given in _Life, Letters, and Literary Remains_, has some important variant readings.

Page 53. The Campbell poem is taken from the _Complete Poetical Works_ (Phillips, Samson & Co., Boston, 1857).

Page 55. "Lochinvar" comes from the _Poetical Works_ (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1894).

Page 56. This spirited poem of Browning's is from the _Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1895).

Page 58. The three poems by Tennyson in this collection are from _Poetic and Dramatic Works_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1898).

Page 63. This version of "America" is from the facsimile reproduction of the hymn in the author's handwriting found in _A History of Newton, Massachusetts_, by S. F. Smith, D.D. (published, 1880, by The American Logotype Company, Boston). The original copy of "America," according to all the evidence, is the one in Dr. Smith's handwriting contained on a slip of waste paper which is now kept in the treasure room of the Harvard Library. In this original version the two notable points of difference from that given here are the reading "breathes" for "breathe" in the third stanza, and "Our God" for "Great God" in the fourth stanza.

Page 64. This well-known passage is the first stanza of Canto VI of Scott's _The Lay of the Last Minstrel_ (_Poetical Works_ above described).

Page 64. Miller's "Columbus" is from the Bear Edition of Miller's poems (Harr Wagner Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1909).

Page 65. Mrs. Hemans' poem is from _Complete Works_ (D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1847).

Page 67. The "Concord Hymn" and "The Rhodora," page 74, are from the _Poems_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1899).

Page 67. This poem of Holmes' and "The Chambered Nautilus," page 77, are from the _Poetical Works_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1895). The latter poem appeared originally in _The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_.

Page 68. "O Captain! My Captain!" is from _Leaves of Grass_ (David McKay, Philadelphia, 1900).

Page 70. "To Lucasta" is from _Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, etc., etc., to which is added Aramantha, a Pastoral, by Richard Lovelace, Esq. A New Edition_ (Chiswick: from the Press of C. Whittingham, 1817).

Page 70. Byron's poem is from _Hebrew Melodies_ (London, printed for John Murray, 1815).

Page 71. "A Red, Red Rose" is from _Complete Poetical Works_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1897).

Page 72. "The Greenwood Tree" is from _As You Like It_ (New Variorum Edition, 1890).

Page 72. This well-known sea song by Cunningham is from _The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern_, Vol. IV (printed for John Taylor, London, 1825).

Page 73. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", or "The Daffodils," as it is often called, is from _Complete Poetical Works_ (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, n. d.). The text is that of the edition of 1857.

Page 74. "To the Fringed Gentian" is from _Poetical Works_ (D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1909). "To a Waterfowl," page 76, is from the same.

Page 79. "The Noble Nature" is from the volume of Ben Jonson's poems in _The Canterbury Poets_, edited by William Sharp (published by the Walter Scott Publishing Company, London and Newcastle, n. d.).

Page 79. This poem of Wotton's is from _Reliquæ Wottoniæ_, etc., London, (printed by Thomas Maxey for R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651). The meaning of the third stanza is obscure. In this edition it runs as follows:

Who envies none that Chance doth raise,
Nor Vice hath ever understood;
How deepest wounds are given by praise,
Nor rules of State, but rules of good.

Page 80. This inspiring poem by Clough is found in _Poetical Works_ (George Routledge & Sons, London, n. d.).

Page 80. "For A' That an' A' That" is from _The Edinburgh Book of Scottish Verse_ (Meiklejohn and Holden, London, 1910).

Page 82. The poem by Henley is from _Echoes_ (published by David Nutt, London, 1908). This poem is the fourth of the forty-seven poems in _Echoes._ The title "Invictus" is not in the original.

Page 82. "Opportunity" is from _Poems by Edward Rowland Sill_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1888).

Pages 85-86. These six fables are from _The Fables of Æsop_, translated into English by Samuel Croxall, with new applications, morals, etc., by the Rev. George Fyler Townsend (Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1869). This is the second edition. There are, of course, scores of versions of the Æsopian fables. The one selected is approved by Greek scholars for the fidelity of the translation, while its literary value is unusually high. The tagged-on morals and applications have been pruned away from the text.

Pages 87-88. The two fables of Bidpai are to be found in _The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai_, retold by Maude Barrows Dutton (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1908). They are reprinted here by permission of the publishers.

Page 89. These two metrical fables are from _Fables of La Fontaine,_ translated by Elizur Wright, Jr. (Worthington Company, New York, 1889). The French writer's fables, though usually not original in content, are clever and keen and shrewd, and this translation represents faithfully their thought and spirit.

Page 91. Both "The Old Woman and Her Pig" and "The Three Little Pigs" are from _English Fairy Tales_, third edition (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1910). The stories are from Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes and Tales_, but are retold by Jacobs, who, as usual, improves the original without sinning against the mood and spirit of the "popular" story.

Page 95. "Hans in Luck" and "The Frog-Prince," are from the translation of Edgar Taylor, London, 1823. This, so far as the editor could determine, was the first translation into English, and it remains one of the best.

Page 98. "The Valiant Little Tailor" and "The Elves," are from _Grimms Household Tales_, translated by Margaret Hunt (George Bell & Sons, London, 1913). The two volumes of Miss Hunt's translation are, together with her notes and Andrew Lang's introduction, an important contribution to the folklore of the "popular" Fairy Story and Nursery Tale.

Page 105. "Cinderella" and "Blue Beard," are from _The Tales of Mother Goose_, translated from the French by Charles Welsh (D. C. Heath & Co., New York, 1901). They are reprinted in this collection by permission of the publishers. _The Tales of Mother Goose_ were published in 1697. There have been dozens of translations, but Welsh's version is perhaps the most satisfactory.

Page 110. This version of "Whittington" is from _Amusing Prose Chap- Books, chiefly of Last Century_, edited by Robert Hays Cunningham (Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1889). 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."

Page 117. "The Ugly Duckling" is from _Fairy Tales and Stories_, translated by H. W. Dulcken (Rand-McNally & Co., Chicago, n. d.). The Dulcken translation published by A. L. Burt Company, New York, n. d., contains the same stories as the Rand-McNally translation, and eleven more.

Page 125. "The Flax" is from the translation of Caroline Peachey, _Danish Fairy Legends and Tales_ (George Bell & Sons, London, 1881). This is the "third edition, enlarged." It contains fifty-seven stories.

Neither of the Andersen stories used for this collection is a folk story--though, for tradition's sake, they are here placed with genuine folk stories. Of the fifty-seven stories in the Peachey translation, all but ten are entirely original with Andersen, and all of these ten he worked over to suit his purpose. Andersen, then, unlike Grimm, Jacobs, Lang, and others, is not a collector and teller of fairy stories, but a maker of fairy stories--if, indeed, they should be called fairy stories at all. In spirit and purpose and method Andersen belongs with the modern writers of fairy stories--with Macdonald, Stockton, Ingelow, and Barrie, rather than with the "dealers in the genuine article."

Page 133. This version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" is from Jacobs' _English Fairy Tales_ above cited. Jacobs states that this telling came from Australia. It is the best version known to the editor--in fact, the only possible change to be desired is in the flippant ending, "The ogre fell down and broke his crown." This is too serious a matter for such lightness!

Page 142. The only story of Asbjornsen reprinted in this collection is from _Fairy Tales from the Far North_ (A. L. Burt Company, New York, n. d.). The translator is H. L. Braekstad. Asbjornsen's stories are sterling folk tales, but somewhat too gross and crude for the delicate stomach of the modern child.

Page 146. This Negro folk tale is from _Told by Uncle Remus_ (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1905. Copyright 1903-1904-1905 by Joel Chandler Harris). Reproduced here by courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co.

Page 155. Mrs. Craik's story is the first tale in _The Adventures of a Brownie_ (Rand-McNally & Co., Chicago, 1911); it is printed here by permission of the publishers. The text, according to the editor, agrees with the standard text (Samson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London, 1872).

Page 161. The text of "The King of the Golden River" is that found in _Ruskin's Works_ (American Publishers Corporation, New York, n. d.). The versions commonly found in readers have been sadly mangled by editors--largely on the theory, it would seem, that children cannot understand the meaning of a word of more than two syllables.

Page 183. "Aladdin" is from _The Arabian Nights Entertainments_, translated by Jonathan Scott (printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, 1811). The translation is based on Galland's French translation, the first translation into any European language; but Dr. Scott states that the stories are "carefully revised and occasionally corrected from the Arabic." Of the many editions of _The Arabian Nights_--several of them excellent--this has always seemed, to the editor, the best.

The name in Scott's edition is spelled "Alla ad Deen," but the editor has thought it best to use the name most familiar to the English translations. The story has been altered slightly in that part which relates the circumstances following the marriage of the princess and the vizier's son. Quotation marks have been inserted throughout.

Page 267. "The Gorgon's Head" is from _The Wonder Book_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1881).

Page 286. "Theseus" is from _The Heroes_ (_Kingsley's Works_, Macmillan & Co., London, 1879). One obvious blunder in spelling has been corrected.

Page 311. "Thor Goes a-Fishing" is from Mabie's _Norse Stories_ (Rand-McNally & Co., Chicago, 1902. Copyright, 1900, 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Co.). It is printed here through special arrangement with the holders of the copyright.

Page 315. "Baldur" is Chapter VI of _The Heroes of Asgard_, revised and abridged by Charles H. Morss (Macmillan Company, New York, 1909). The preface states that "this volume is really an abridgment of Keary's _The Heroes of Asgard_, adapting it to classroom use for pupils of about the fourth and fifth grades." The selection is presented here as a splendid specimen of "made-over" literature, as well as, in its own right, a masterpiece of story-telling for children.

Page 327. The story of William Wallace is from _The Tales of a Grandfather_ (Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1889). This edition is "reprinted from the latest edition published in the lifetime of Mr. Lockhart, and probably under his immediate supervision."

Page 339. "The Tempest" is from _Tales from Shakespeare_, with introductions and additions by F. J. Furnivall (Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, 1901). The "Tales" are very uneven in merit, the Comedies being superior, in the editor's opinion, to the Tragedies, and "The Tempest" being considerably the best of the Comedies. It is generally understood that it was Mary Lamb who told the Comedies and Charles who had charge of the Tragedies.

Page 349. "The Purple Jar" is from "Rosamond" in a volume entitled _Frank, Rosamond, Harry, and Lucy_ (Frederick Warne & Co., London, n. d.). This is an inexpensive volume containing all of Miss Edgeworth's good stories except those in _The Parent's Assistant_. One may not care for tales of this sort; but they have their value, both as morality and literature, and "The Purple Jar" is one of the most effective specimens of its kind.

Pages 354, 356. The two didactic stories by Aiken and Barbauld are from _Evenings at Home; or, the Juvenile Budget opened: consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons_ (Henry Washbourne, London, 1847). This edition is described as "newly arranged." "Eyes and No Eyes" has been admired and praised by thousands of readers of past generations, among whom Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Kingsley are preeminent.

Page 363. "Rab and His Friends" is the first sketch in _Horæ Subsecivæ_, First Series (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1893). An accurate and inexpensive edition is that in the Canterbury Classics (Rand-McNally & Co., Chicago). It is one of the most pathetic stories in all literature, conforming precisely to Ruskin's theory that a child's story should be "sad and sweet."

Page 375. Mrs. Miller's story of the blue jay is one of the most charming of the stories in _True Bird Stories_ (Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1903). It is reprinted in this collection with the permission of the publishers.

Page 378. "A Cry in the Night" is the second story in _Wood Folk at School_ (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1903). It is printed here by special arrangement with the publishers. Mr. Long's studies of wild animal life are among the few distinctive contributions to children's literature within this generation.

Page 389. The selections from the Bible are from the King James Version. The verse divisions in this version have been ignored in this reprint, as having little literary significance, and the paragraphs indicated by the paragraph marks in the original have been used as the natural units of thought--though the paragraphing does not always represent the thought divisions. Quotation marks have been inserted throughout.

From the story of Joseph, Genesis 37-50, it has been thought best to omit the following: all of Chapter 38, Chapter 39: 7-19; Chapter 46: 8- 27; Chapter 49; 1-28. From the story of Samson, Judges 13:24 to end of