The emotional appeal in _The Elephant's Child_ would repay study. The dominant emotional tone is that of the adventurous hero with his "'satiable curtiosity." There is vividness of emotion, steadiness of emotion, and a rich variety in the contrasts of feeling. Emotion of a moral quality is characteristic of its implied message of worldly wisdom but it does not leave one exactly satisfied. The form of the story is a splendid example of a literary classic style. A pleasing humorous touch is given to the unity of the tale by making the Elephant's Child pick up with his new trunk, on his way home, the melon-rinds he had scattered on his journey to the Limpopo. The coherence in the tale is unusually fine and is secured largely by expressions which look backward or forwards; as, "By and by when that was finished," or "One fine morning," or "That very next morning." Any study will show that the tale possesses the general qualities of form and has its parts controlled by the principles of composition. OUTLINE I. THE WORTH OF FAIRY TALES I. Two public tributes 1 II. The value of fairy tales in education 3 1. They bring joy into child-life 3 2. They satisfy the play-spirit of childhood 4 3. They give a power of accurate observation 6 4. They strengthen the power of emotion, develop the power of imagination, train the memory and exercise the reason 6 5. They extend and intensify the child's social relations 7 6. In school they unify the child's work or play 8 7. In the home they employ leisure time profitably 9 8. They afford a vital basis for language-training 10 III. References 12 II. PRINCIPLES OF SELECTION FOR FAIRY TALES I. The interests of children 13 1. Fairy tales must follow the law of composition and must contain the interests of children 13 a. A sense of life 14 b. The familiar 14 c. The surprise 15 d. Sense impression 17 e. The beautiful 18 f. Wonder, mystery, magic 19 g. Adventure 19 h. Success 20 i. Action 20 j. Humor 21 k. Poetic justice 22