(4) It shows Cinderella sleeping in a garret instead of on the hearth. (5) It omits the Father. (6) It omits the hazel bough. (7) It omits the three wishes. (8) It substitutes the fairy Godmother for the hazel tree and the friendly doves. (9) It substitutes transformation for tree-shaking. (10) It omits the episode of the pear tree and of the pigeon-house. (11) It omits the use of pitch and axe-cutting. (12) It omits the false bride and the two doves. (13) It substitutes two nights at the ball for three nights. (14) It makes C. forgiving and generous at the end. The Sisters are not punished. (15) It contains slippers of glass instead of slippers of gold. (16) It simplifies the narrative, improves the structure, and puts in the condition, which is a keystone to the structure. (17) It has no poetical refrain. (18) It is more direct and dramatic. (19) It draws the characters more clearly. (20) Is it not more artificial and conventional? This contrast shows the Grimm tale to be the more poetical, while it is the more complex, and contains more barbarous and gruesome elements unsuited to the child of to-day. Of the two forms, the Grimm tale seems the superior tale, however, and if rewritten in a literary form suited to the child, might become even preferable. _Sleeping Beauty_, which is another romantic tale that might claim to be the most popular fairy tale, has for its theme the long sleep of winter and the awakening of spring. The Earth goddess, pricked by winter's dart, falls into a deep sleep from which she is awakened by the Sun who searches far for her. This tale is similar to the Norse _Balder_ and the Greek _Persephone_. Some of its incidents appear also in _The Two Brothers_, an Egyptian tale of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Seti II, in which the Hathors who pronounce the fate of the Prince correspond to the wicked old Fairy. The spindle whose prick caused slumber is the arrow that wounded Achilles, the thorn which pricked Siegfried, the mistle-toe which wounded Balder, and the poisoned nail of the demon in _Surya Bai_. In the northern form of the story we find the ivy, which is the one plant that can endure winter's touch. The theme of the long sleep occurs in the mediæval legend of _The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus_, in the English _The King of England and His Three Sons_, poetically as Tennyson has given it in his _Day-Dream_, and in the _Story of Brunhilde_, in _Siegfried_. Here a hedge of flames encircles Brunhilde who is awakened at the touch of Siegfried's magic sword, just as Sleeping Beauty is awakened by the Prince's kiss. The kiss may be a survival of an ancient form of worship of some local goddess. In the Hindu _Panch-Rhul Ranee_, seven ditches surmounted by seven hedges of spears, surround the heroine. Of the Perrault and Grimm versions of _Sleeping Beauty_, the Perrault version is long and