French fairy tales, 179-83.

Game, as expression, 134-35.

Gardens of the Tuileries, 1.

German fairy tales, 192-93.

Gesta Romanorum, 174-75.

Gesture,
  knowledge of, 105-06;
  library pamphlet relating to, 106.

Giant tales, 31-32.

Golden Egg and the Cock of Gold, 237-38.

Good-Natured Bear,
  a modern animal type, 217, 272-75;
  a book, 190.

Grimm, William and Jacob, 67-68;
  list of tales by, 246-47;
  editions by, 257;
  tales by, as literary form, 67.

Harris, J.C.,
  list of Uncle Remus tales by, 248-49;
  tales by, as literary form, 69;
  editions by, 257.

Henny Penny, 214.

History of fairy tales, 158-203;
  origin of fairy tales, 158-67;
  transmission of fairytales, 167-200;
  oral transmission, 167-70;
  literary transmission, 170-200;
  references, 201-03.

Hop-About-Man, 241-43.

House that Jack Built, 206-07.

How the Birds came to Have Different Nests, 151; 270-72.

How the Sun, Moon, and West Wind went out to Dinner, 84-86.

How Two Beetles Took Lodgings, 226.

Humor in fairy tales:  an interest, 21-22; 217-19.

Humorous tales, 217-23; types of, 219-23.

Imagination,
  a distinguishing literary mark of fairy tales, 40, 45-53;
  creative, 45;
  associative, 46;
  penetrative, 47;
  contemplative, 47-53;
  fancy, 46, 47;
  exhibited in child’s return, 122, 125-54.

Imaginative, the, 23.

Initiative, development of, 122, 123-25.

Instincts of child, expression of: 
  conversation, 125-27;
  inquiry, 127-29;
  construction, 129-30;
  artistic expression, 130-54.

Intellect, appeal of fairy tales to, 53-54.

Interests of children, 13-37;
  sense of life, 14;
  the familiar, 14-15;
  surprise, 15-17;
  sense impression, 17-18;
  the beautiful, 18-19;
  wonder, mystery, magic, 19;
  adventure, 19-20;
  success, 20;
  action, 20-21;
  humor, 21-22;
  poetic justice, 22-23;
  the imaginative, 23;
  animals, 24;
  portrayal of human relations, 24-25;
  the diminutive, 25-26;
  rhythm and repetition, 26-28;
  the simple and the sincere, 28-29;
  unity of effect, 29-30;
  opposed to, 30-36;
  witch tales, 31;
  dragon tales, 31;
  giant tales, 31-32;
  some tales of transformation, 32-33;
  tales of strange creatures, 33-34;
  unhappy tales, 34;
  tales of capture, 34-35;
  very long tales, 35-36;
  complicated or insincere tales, 36.

Introduction, i-iii.

Inquiry, instinct of, 127-29.

Jack the Giant-Killer, 185, 186, 188, 190.

Jacobs, Joseph,
  list of tales by, 247-48;
  tales by, as literary form, 69;
  editions by, 257.