be alive in, its wrongs are being righted, and
its very misfortunes are ultimately to bring
happier times."

4. A few stories about Roland, Siegfried, the
Cid, Charlemagne, and others may be used by
teachers who have had opportunity to get
acquainted with those great figures, or who
have access to some of the authorities listed
in the bibliography. This material is more
difficult to handle satisfactorily than that
already discussed, and may well be sparingly
used, if not omitted altogether. For a general
collection of legends, the ideal as to choice
and method of presentation is Scudder's _The
Book of Legends_ (No. 412). From _The Arabian
Nights_ use "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
(No. 398), "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,"
and "The Stories of Sindbad the Sailor." Almost
any of the accessible versions will be
satisfactory. For _Reynard the Fox_, the one
adaptation that presents the story in a fairly
good form for children is that made by Sir
Henry Cole, available as edited by Joseph
Jacobs (Nos. 399 and 400). Perhaps as much of
_Don Quixote_ is given in this text (Nos.
405-411) as teachers can use. A full
translation is a satisfactory source for this
story, although the shortened forms by Havell
or Parry are admirable.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

Most of the books on story-telling have
discussions of the best ways of dealing with
the romance material. Especially valuable in
this connection are Wyche, _Great Stories and
How to Tell Them_, and Lyman, _Story Telling_.
For scholarly and yet not too difficult books
giving a perspective of the entire field see W.
W. Lawrence, _Medieval Story and the Beginnings
of the Social Ideals of English-speaking
People_, or W. P. Ker, _Epic and Romance_.
Consult MacClintock, "Hero-Tales and Romances,"
_Literature in the Elementary School_, chap.
viii.

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_The Arabian Nights' Entertainment_ or
_Thousand and One Nights_ is a collection of
about four hundred old oriental stories,
chiefly from Persia, India, and Arabia. They
were brought together probably in the
thirteenth century and told orally