FOOTNOTES:

[24] Chapter I, page [3].

[25] This experiment cannot be made with a group of children, for obvious reasons.

[26] From an address on the “Cultivation of the Imagination.”

[27] “The House in the Wood” (Grimm) is a good instance of triumph for the youngest child.

[28] To be found in Andrew Lang's Collection. See [list of Stories].

[29] To be found in Jacob's “More English Tales.”

[30] For selection of suitable stories among legends of the Saints, see [Story Lists].

[31] I believe that I am quite in a minority among Educationists in this matter. Possibly my constantly specialising in the stories may have formed my opinion.

[32] These words have been set most effectively to music by Miss Margaret Ruthven Lang. (Boston.)

[33] From “Moral Instruction of Children,” page 66. “The Use of Fairy Tales.”

[34] From “Talks to Teachers,” page 93.

[35] An excellent account of this is to be found in “The Song of Roland,” by Arthur Way and Frederic Spender.

[36] This passage was written before the Great War.