Ethel Clifford.

And so our stories should contain all the essentials for the child's scrip on the road of life, providing the essentials and holding or withholding the non-essentials. But, above all, let us fill the scrip with gifts that the child need never reject, even when he passes through “the gate of sleep.”

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].