o be and to become wise.

What boys and girls play in earliest childhood will become by-and-by a
beautiful reality of serious life; for they expand into stronger and
lovelier youthfulness by seeking on every side appropriate objects to
verify the thoughts of their inmost souls.

This earliest age is the most important one for education, because the
beginning decides the manner of progress and the end. If national
order is to be recognized in later years as a benefit, childhood must
first be accustomed to law and order, and therein find the means of
freedom. Lawlessness and caprice must rule in no period of life, not
even in that of the nursling.

The kindergarten is the free republic of childhood.

A deep feeling of the universal brotherhood of man,--what is it but a
true sense of our close filial union with God?

Man must be able to fail, in order to be good and virtuous; and he
must be able to become a slave in order to be truly free.

My teachers are the children themselves, with all their purity, their
innocence, their unconsciousness, and their irresistible claims; and I
follow them like a faithful, trustful scholar.

A story told at the right time is like a looking-glass for the mind.

I wish to cultivate men who stand rooted in nature, with their feet in
God's earth, whose heads reach toward and look into the heavens; whose
hearts unite the richly formed life of earth and nature, with the
purity and peace of heaven,--God's earth and God's heaven.

[Illustration: _THE MENAGERIE._
Photogravure from a Painting by T. R. Sunderland.

"What boys and girls play in earliest childhood will become
by-and-by a beautiful reality of serious life; for they
expand into stronger and lovelier youthfulness by seeking on
every side appropriate objects to verify the thoughts of
their inmost souls."--_Froebel._]

FROISSART

(1337-1410?)

BY GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER

[Illustration: FROISSART]

Froissart is the artist of chivalry. On his pages are painted, with
immortal brilliancy, the splendid shows, the coronations, weddings,
tourneys, marches, feasts, and battles of the English and French
knighthood just before the close of the Middle Ages. "I intend," he
says in the Prologue of his chronicle, "to treat and record history
and matter of great praise, to the end that the honorable emprises and
noble adventures and deeds of arms, which have come about from the
wars of France and Engla