Chapter Iii. The Telling Of Fairy Tales : CHAPTER III THE TELLING OF FAIRY TALES The telling of stories refreshes the mind as a bath refreshes the body. It gives exercise to the intellect and its powers. It tests the judgments and feelings. The story-teller must wholly take into himself the life of which he speaks, must let it live...
Chapter V. Classes Of Fairy Tales : CHAPTER V CLASSES OF FAIRY TALES But the fact that after having been repeated for two thousand years, a story still possesses a perfectly fresh attraction for a child of to-day, does indeed prove that there is in it something of imperishable worth.--FELIX ADLER. Whatever has, at any time, appealed...
Chapter Iv. The History Of Fairy Tales : CHAPTER IV THE HISTORY OF FAIRY TALES The gods of ancient mythology were changed into the demi-gods and heroes of ancient poetry, and these demi-gods again became, at a later age, the principal characters of our nursery tales.--MAX MULLER Stories originally told tbout the characters of savage tales...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION THE fairy tale has a place in the training of children which common sense and a sympathetic attitude toward childhood will not deny. Some rigid philosophers, who see no more of life than is to be found in logical science, condemn the imaginative tale. They regard the teaching of myths...
Chapter Ii. Principles Of Selection For Fairy : CHAPTER II PRINCIPLES OF SELECTION FOR FAIRY TALES All our troubles come from doing that in which we have no interest.--EPICTETUS. That is useful for every man which is conformable to his own constitution and nature.--MARCUS AURELIUS. Genuine interest means that a person has identified himself with...
Chapter I. The Worth Of Fairy Tales : A STUDY OF FAIRY TALES CHAPTER I THE WORTH OF FAIRY TALES In olde dayes of the kyng Arthour, Of which that Britouns speken gret honour, Al was this lond fulfilled of fayrie; The elf-queen, with hir joly compaignye, Daunced ful oft in many a grene mede. CHAUCER I. TWO PUBLIC TRIBUTES ONLY a few...
Untitled : A STUDY OF FAIRY TALES BY LAURA F. KREADY [1916] Title Page Preface Contents Introduction Chapter I. The Worth of Fairy Tales Chapter II. Principles of Selection for Fairy Tales Chapter III. The Telling of Fairy Tales Chapter IV. The History of Fairy Tales Chapter V. Classes of Fairy Tales Chapter...
Chapter Vi. Sources Of Material For Fairy Tales : CHAPTER VI SOURCES OF MATERIAL FOR FAIRY TALES: A LIST OF FAIRY TALES, PICTURES, PICTURE-BOOKS, POEMS, AND BOOKS Shall we permit our children, without scruple, to hear any fables composed by any authors indifferently, and so to receive into their minds opinions generally the reverse of those which...
Title Page : A STUDY OF FAIRY TALES BY LAURA F. KREADY, B.S. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY SUZZALLO, Ph.D. President Of The University Of Washington Seattle HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO THE RIVERSIDE PRESS 1916 Scanned and redacted by Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com, April...
Preface : PREFACE ONE of the problems of present-day education is to secure for the entire school system, from the kindergarten to the university, a curriculum which shall have a proved and permanent value. In this curriculum literature has established itself as a subject of unquestioned worth. But...
