Piper) _St. Nicholas_, Nov., 1914.

Hays, Ruth: "Greencap," _St. Nicholas_, June, 1915.

Hazlitt, William; _Essays_. ("Wit and Humor.") Camelot Series.
Scott.

Hooker, B.: "Narrative and the Fairy Tale," _Bookman_, 33: June
and July, 1911, pp. 389-93, pp. 501-05.

_Ibid_: "Types of Fairy Tales," _Forum_, 40: Oct., 1908, pp.
375-84.

Martin, John: _John Martin's Book_ (Magazine), 1915

Meredith, George: _The Comic Spirit_. Scribners.

Moulton, Alice O'Grady, and Literature Committee: "Humorous
Tales" _Kindergarten Review_, Dec, 1914.

Perry, Bliss: _A Study of Prose Fiction_. ("The Romantic" and
"The Realistic") Houghton.

CHAPTER VI

SOURCES OF MATERIAL FOR FAIRY TALES: A LIST OF FAIRY TALES, PICTURES,
PICTURE-BOOKS, POEMS, AND BOOKS

Shall we permit our children, without scruple, to hear any
fables composed by any authors indifferently, and so to
receive into their minds opinions generally the reverse of
those which, when they are grown to manhood, we shall think
they ought to entertain?--PLATO, in _The Republic_.

Any list of fairy tales for little children must be selected from
those books which, as we have noted, contain the best collections of
folk-lore, and from books which contain tales that rank as classics.
An examination of the tales of Perrault, of Grimm, of Dasent, of
Andersen, of Jacobs, of Harris, and of miscellaneous tales, to see
what are suited to the little child, would result in the following
lists of tales. Those most worthy of study for the kindergarten are
marked with an asterisk and those suited to the first grade are marked
"1." No attempt has been made to mention all the varied sources of a
tale or its best version. The Boston Public Library issues a _Finding
List of Fairy Tales and Folk Stories_, which may be procured easily,
and the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg issues in its monthly bulletin
for December, 1913, vol. 18, no. 10, a _List of Folk-Tales_, and other
stories which may be dramatized. The Baker, Taylor Company, in 1914,
issued a _Graded Guide to Supplementary Reading_, which contains a
list of many of the best editions of folk and fairy tales suited to
primary grades. A list of school editions is included in this book.
But one cannot fail to be impressed with the general low literary
standard of many school editions of fairy tales when judged by the
standards he