[JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK.] Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie President of the New York Free Kindergarten Association. Associate Editor of The Outlook [THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD.] Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Shailer Mathews Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Chicago. Editor of The World To-day Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie Dr. Henry Van Dyke Author. Professor of English Literature in Princeton University [LITTLE RED-RIDING-HOOD.] Charles Perrault This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Henry M. Alden [THE UGLY DUCKLING.] Hans Christian Andersen This Story is the Choice of: The Honorable William J. Bryan Publicist and Editor Miss Jane Addams Head Resident of Hull House, Chicago [HOP-O’-MY-THUMB.] This Story is the Choice of: Henry James Author


[BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.] From the French of Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve This Story is the Choice of: Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
[LITTLE SNOWDROP.] This Story is the Choice of: Howard Pyle Artist and Author
[THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS.] Robert Southey This Story is the Choice of: F. A. Kendall Secretary of the Illinois Pupils’ Reading Circle
[SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED.] Grimm This Story is the Choice of: Frederick Dielman President of the National Academy of Design
[THE WILD SWANS.] Hans Christian Andersen This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Henry Van Dyke Mrs. Alice Meynell Poet and Essayist


[ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP.] “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Charles William Eliot President of Harvard University Dr. Henry Van Dyke J. M. Pereles Dr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Author [ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES.] “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Samuel L. Clemens Dr. Charles William Eliot Dr. Lyman Abbott Editor of The Outlook [THE SECOND VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR.] “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. Lyman Abbott [THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA, A MERCHANT OF BAGDAD.] “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments” This Story is the Choice of: Dr. William Dean Howells Author


ILLUSTRATIONS

“CAN’T YOU RENDER ME SOME ASSISTANCE?”[Frontispiece]
“I WILL BROIL YOU FOR MY BREAKFAST”Facing p.[2]
THE SLIPPER FITTED EXACTLY“[48]
JUST AS HE LAID HIS HAND UPON ONE OF THEM, THE LITTLE DOG BARKED MOST FURIOUSLY“[66]
A YOUNG GIRL OF WONDERFUL BEAUTY LAY ASLEEP ON AN EMBROIDERED BED“[82]
HE ASKED HER POLITELY WHERE SHE WAS GOING“[88]
SOME LITTLE CHILDREN THREW PIECES OF BREAD INTO THE WATER“[114]
THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO CRY AS LOUD AS THEY COULD“[120]
SHE SAW AT HER FEET A HANDSOME, GRACEFUL YOUNG PRINCE“[170]
“OH, HEAVEN,” THEY CRIED, “WHAT A LOVELY CHILD!”“[180]
THE VOICE OF THE LITTLE, SMALL, WEE BEAR AWAKENED HER AT ONCE“[200]