the climax is told beforehand.  Mrs. Burton Harrison’s Old Fashioned Fairy Book is very pleasing, but it was written for her two sons, who were older children.  It has the fault of presenting too great a variety of images and it lacks simplicity of structure.  Its Juliet, or The Little White Mouse, which seems to be a re-telling of D’Aulnoy’s Good Little Mouse, contains a good description of the old-time fairy dress. Deep Sea Violets, perhaps the best-written story in the book, gives a good picture of a maiden taken to a Merman’s realm. Rosy’s Stay-at-Home Parties has delightful imagination similar to that of Andersen.

Five Little Pigs, by Katherine Pyle, is a delightful little modern story, which could be used with interest by the child who knows The Story of Three Little Pigs. The Little Rooster, by Southey, is a very pleasing realistic tale of utmost simplicity which, because of its talking animals, might be included here.  A criticism of this tale, together with a list of realistic stories containing some realistic fairy tales suited to the kindergarten, may be read in Educational Foundations, October, 1914. The Hen That Hatched Ducks, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is a pleasing and sprightly humorous tale of Madam Feathertop and her surprising family of eight ducks, and of Master Gray Cock, Dame Scratchard and Dr. Peppercorn.  A modern tale that is very acceptable to the children is The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen, by Felicite Lefevre, which is a re-telling of the Story of the Little Red Hen combined with the story of The Little Rid Hin.  In this tale the two old classic stories are preserved but re-experienced, with such details improvised as a clever child would himself naturally make.  These additional details appeal to his imagination and give life-likeness and freshness to the tale, but they do not detract from the impression of the original or confuse the identity of the characters in the old tales.

One must not forget Peter Rabbit—­that captivating, realistic fairy tale by Beatrix Potter—­and his companions, Benjamin Bunny, Pigling Bland, Tom Kitten, and the rest, of which children never tire. Peter Rabbit undoubtedly holds a place as a kindergarten classic.  In somewhat the same class of merry animal tales is Tommy and the Wishing Stone, a series of tales by Thornton Burgess, in St. Nicholas, 1915.  Here the child enjoys the novel transformation of becoming a Musk-rat, a Ruffed Grouse, a Toad, Honker the Goose, and other interesting personages.  A modern fairy tale which is received gladly by children is Ludwig and Marleen, by Jane Hoxie.  Here we have the friendly Fox who grants to Ludwig the wishes he asks for Marleen.  The theme parallels for the little people the charm of The Fisherman and His Wife, a Grimm tale suited to the second grade.  Among modern animal tales The Elephant’s Child[12], one of the Just-So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, ranks high as a fairy tale produced for little children by one of the great literary masters of the short-story.