For the children’s hour.  By Carolyn Bailey and Clara Lewis.  Milton Bradley Co., Springfield.  A general collection of popular stories, well told.

The sons of CORMAC.  By Aldis Dunbar.  Longmans, Green & Co., London.  Rather mature but very fine Irish stories.

For the benefit of suggestion to teachers in schools where story-telling is newly or not yet introduced in systematic form, I am glad to append the following list of stories which have been found, on several years’ trial, to be especially tellable and likable, in certain grades of the Providence schools, in Rhode Island.  The list is not mine, although it embodies some of my suggestions.  I offer it merely as a practical result of the effort to equalize and extend the story-hour throughout the schools.  Its makers would be the last to claim ideal merit for it, and they are constantly improving and developing it.  I am indebted for the privilege of using it to the primary teachers of Providence, and to their supervisor, Miss Ella L. Sweeney.

STORIES FOR REPRODUCTION

First grade
Chicken Little The Dog and his Shadow
Barnyard Talk The Hare and the Hound
Little Red Hen Five Little Rabbits
Little Gingerbread Boy The Three Bears
The Lion and the Mouse The Red-headed Wood-
The Hungry Lion pecker
The Wind and the Sun Little Red Riding-Hood
The Fox and the Crow Little Half-Chick
The Duck and the Hen The Rabbit and the Turtle
The Hare and the Tortoise The Shoemaker and the
The Three Little Robins Fairies
The Wolf and the Kid The Wolf and the Crane
The Crow and the Pitcher The Cat and the Mouse
The Fox and the Grapes Snow-White and Rose-Red

Second grade
The North Wind The Lark and her Little
The Mouse Pie Ones
The Wonderful Traveler The Wolf and the Goslings
The Wolf and the Fox The Ugly Duckling
The Star Dollars The Country Mouse and the
The Water-Lil City Mouse
The Three Goats The Three Little Pigs
The Boy and the Nuts Diamonds and Toads
The Honest Woodman The Thrifty Squirrel
The Pied Piper How the Robin’s Breast
King Midas became Red
The Town Musicians The Old Woman and her
Raggylug Pig
Peter Rabbit The Sleeping Apple
The Boy who cried “Wolf” The Cat and the Parrot