use _Sylvain and Yocosa_.

Very little attempt has been made in modern times to include
in our children's literature the best of foreign literature
for children, for there has been very little study of
foreign books for children. Certainly the field of
children's literature would be enriched to receive
translations of any books worthy of the name classic. A
partial list of French fairy tales is here given, indicating
to children's librarians how little has been done to open up
this field, and inviting their labor:--

_Bibliotheque Rose_, a collection. (What should be
included?)

_Bibliotheque des Petits Enfants_, a collection.
(What should be included?)

1799-1874. _Fairy Tales from the French_, by
Madame de Segur. These tales are published by
Winston. We also use her _Story of a Donkey_,
written in 1860 and published by Heath in 1901.

1866. _Fairy Tales of all Nations_, by Edouard
Laboulaye.

1902. _Last Fairy Tales_, also by Laboulaye.

_Tales_, by Zenaide Fleuriot. (What should be
included?)

1910. _Chantecler_, by Edmund Rostand. Translated
by Gertrude Hall, published by Duffield.

1911. _The Honey Bee_, by Anatole France;
translated by Mrs. Lane; published by Lane.

1911. _The Blue-Bird_, by Maurice Maeterlinck;
published by Dodd.

In Great Britain many old tales taken from tradition were included in
the Welsh Mabinogion, Irish sagas, and Cornish Mabinogion. Legends of
Brittany were made known by the poems of Marie de France, who lived in
the thirteenth century. These were published in Paris, in 1820. In
fact, most of the early publications of fairy tales were taken from
the French.

Celtic tales have been collected in modern times in a greater number
than those of any nation. This has been due largely to the work of
J.F. Campbell. Celtic tales are unusual in that they have been
collected while the custom of story-telling is yet flourishing among
the Folk. They are therefore of great literary and imaginative
interest. They are especially valuable as the oldest of the European
tales. The Irish tale of _Connla and the Fairy Maiden_ has been traced
to a date earlier than the fifth century and therefore ranks as the
oldest tale of modern Europe. The principal Celtic co