her sister, to be read on Sundays,' and was dated 1828. The accounts
are taken from a work on "Piety Promoted," and all of them begin with
unusual piety in early youth and end with the death-bed of the little
paragon, and his or her dying words."

9. _Stories containing a mixture of fairy tale and science_. By
this combination one loses what is essential to each, namely, the
fantastic on the one side, and accuracy on the other. The true fairy
tale should be unhampered by any compromise of probability even; the
scientific representation should be sufficiently marvelous along its
own lines to need no supernatural aid. Both appeal to the imagination
in different ways.

As an exception to this kind of mixture, I should quote "The Honey
Bee, and Other Stories," translated from the Danish of Evald by C. G.
Moore Smith. There is a certain robustness in these stories dealing
with the inexorable laws of Nature. Some of them will appear hard to
the child but they will be of interest to all teachers.

Perhaps the worst element in the choice of stories is that which
insists upon the moral detaching itself and explaining the story. In
"Alice in Wonderland" the Duchess says, "'And the moral of _that_
is: Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.' "How fond she is of finding morals in things," thought
Alice to herself." (This gives the point of view of the child.)

The following is a case in point, found in a rare old print in the
British Museum: