This volume is absolutely unique in scope and conception. It is a collection of all the best nursery rhymes, nonsense verses, guessing games, lullabies and slumber songs for the delectation of the very littlest readers, just as The Posy Ring was designed for children a little older, and Golden Numbers for their brothers and sisters who are beginning to grow up and to prepare for school and college. The editors have, as in the case of the former volumes in the series, gone through the entire field of available material, and drawn upon many sources that are remote or inaccessible for the general reader. In this way they have been able to recover many a veritable little masterpiece of nursery lore, as well as to bring together all the old favorites from Mother Goose and other collections in a form at once compact and comprehensive. Teachers of kindergartens everywhere, as well as mothers with children to entertain at home, will welcome this little book and keep it on the most convenient shelf of the nursery bookcase. “Every home, large or small, poor or rich,” writes Mrs. Wiggin in her delightful Introduction to The Mother in Pinafore Palace; and, she adds later, “no greater love for a task nor happiness in doing it, no more ardent wish to please a child or meet a mother’s need, ever went into a book than has been brought into this volume.”
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MAGIC CASEMENTS
A SECOND FAIRY BOOK
This volume, a companion to “The Fairy Ring,” completes that volume and makes, with it, the most exhaustive collection of fairy lore available for young readers. The editors, with their unerring gift for selection which in itself amounts to genius, have gathered those stories which have in them the greatest degree of that glamour which, in the language of Keats, opens “magic casements” on the world of Fairyland. These stories are for the most part longer and more elaborate than those in the preceding volume and are designed for slightly older readers.
THE FAIRY RING
Designed by its editors to be the standard fairy book for children. The educational value of the fairy story cannot be denied in its healthy stimulation of the child’s imaginative powers. Here the collections of Grimm, Andersen, Joseph Jacobs, Laboulaye, Perrault, and Dasent have yielded their richest stores, but the editors have not confined themselves to these better-known sources. They have gone far afield, read and examined all existing books of fairy literature, sifting all the material till they have made a generous selection which is inclusive of the very best that has ever been written.