A modern fairy tale which is suited to the child's simplicity and which will stimulate his own desire to make a tale, is _The Doll Who Was Sister to a Princess_, one of the _Toy Stories_ by Carolyn Bailey which have been published by the _Kindergarten Review_ during 1914-15. Among modern tales selected from _Fairy Stories Re-told from St. Nicholas_, appear some interesting ones which might be read to the little child, or told in the primary grades. Among these might be mentioned:-- _The Ballad of the Blacksmith's Sons_, a modern tale in verse by Mary E. Wilkins. _Casperl_, by H.C. Bunner, a modern Sleeping Beauty tale. This tale has the virtue of not being complex and elaborate. It has the underlying idea that "People who are helping others have a strength beyond their own." _Ten Little Dwarfs_, by Sophie Dorsey, from the French of Emile Souvestre. It tells of the ten little Dwarfs who lived in the Good-wife's fingers. _Wondering Tom_, by Mary Mapes Dodge. This is a bright story of a boy who Hamlet-like, hesitated to act. Tom was always wondering. The story contains a fairy, Kumtoo-thepoynt, who sat on a toadstool and looked profound. It is realistic and romantic and has fine touches of humor. It tells how Wondering Tom became transformed into a Royal Ship-Builder. _How An Elf Set Up Housekeeping_, by Anne Cleve. This is a good tale of fancy. An Elf set up housekeeping in a lily and obtained a curtain from a spider, down from a thistle, a stool from a toad who lived in a green house in the wood, etc. _The Wish-Ring_, translated from the German by Anne Eichberg. This is a tale with the implied message that "The best way to secure one's best wish is to work for it." _The Hop-About Man_, by Agnes Herbertson, in _Little Folks Magazine_, is a very pleasing modern romantic fairy tale for little children. Wee Wun was a gnome who lived in the Bye-Bye meadow in a fine new house which he loved. As he flew across the Meadow he had his pockets full of blue blow-away seeds. In the Meadow he found a pair of shoes, of blue and silver, and of course he took them home to his new house. But first he scattered the blue blow-away seeds over the garden wall in the Stir-About-Wife's garden where golden dandelions grew. And the seeds grew and crowded out the dandelions. Next day Wee Wun found a large blue seed which he planted outside his house; and on the following morning a great blue blow-away which had grown in a night, made his house dark. So he went to the Green Ogre to get him to take it away. When he came home he found, sitting in his chair, the Hop-About-Man, who had come to live with him. He had been forewarned of this coming by the little blue shoes when they hopped round the room singing:--