e Match Girl_. The
image of suffering impressed on a child, who cannot forget
the sight of a cripple for days, is too intense to be
healthful. The sorrow of the poor is one of the elements of
life that even the very little child meets, and it is
legitimate that his literature should include tales that
call for compassion. But in a year or two, when he develops
less impressionability and more poise, he is better prepared
to meet such situations, as he must meet them in life.

_The tale of capture_. This would eliminate _Proserpine_. No
more beautiful myth exists than this one of the springtime,
but its beauty and its symbolism do not make it suitable for
the kindergarten. It is more suited to the elementary child
of the fourth grade. In fact, very few myths of any sort
find a legitimate place in the kindergarten, perhaps only a
few of the simpler _pourquois_ tales. _The Legend of the
Pied Piper of Hamelin_, which is very beautiful, and appeals
to little children because of the piping and of the children
following after, should be omitted from the kindergarten
because the capture at the close--the disappearance of the
children in the hill--is tragic in pathos. It is better to
leave the literature as it is and offer it later when the
child reaches the second grade. The effect of this tragic
end has been realized by Josephine Scribner Gates, who (_St.
Nicholas_, November, 1914) has given to the children, "And
Piped Those Children Back Again." This is a modern
completion of _The Pied Piper_. It most happily makes the
little lame boy who was left in Hamelin when the Piper
closed the door of the mountain, the means of the
restoration of the other children to their parents.

_The very long tale_. This would omit _The Ugly Duckling.
The Ugly Duckling_ is a most artistic tale and one that is
very true to life. Its characters are the animals of the
barn-yard, the hens and ducks familiar to the little child's
experience. But the theme and emotional interest working out
at length through varied scenes, make it much better adapted
to the capacities of a third-grade child. _The White Cat_, a
feminine counterpart of _Puss-in-Boots_--which gives a most
charming picture of how a White Cat, a transformed princess,
helped a youth, and re-transf