Interests of children, 13-37;
sense of life, 14;
the familiar, 14-15;
surprise, 15-17;
sense impression, 17-18;
the beautiful, 18-19;
wonder, mystery, magic, 19;
adventure, 19-20;
success, 20;
action, 20-21;
humor, 21-22;
poetic justice, 22-23;
the imaginative, 23;
animals, 24;
portrayal of human relations, 24-25;
the diminutive, 25-26;
rhythm and repetition, 26-28;
the simple and the sincere, 28-29;
unity of effect, 29-30;
opposed to, 30-36;
witch tales, 31;
dragon tales, 31;
giant tales, 31-32;
some tales of transformation, 32-33;
tales of strange creatures, 33-34;
unhappy tales, 34;
tales of capture, 34-35;
very long tales, 35-36;
complicated or insincere tales, 36.
Introduction, i-iii.
Inquiry, instinct of, 127-29.
Jack the Giant-Killer, 185, 186, 188, 190.
Jacobs, Joseph,
list of tales by, 247-48;
tales by, as literary form, 69;
editions by, 257.
Jatakas, 170.
Key of the Kingdom, 207-08.
Kindergarten:
play in, 5-6;
work in, unified by the fairy tale, 8-9;
language-training in, 10-11;
interests of child in, 13-37;
standards for literature in, 37-87;
standards for composition in, 54-60;
story-telling in, 94-119;
return to be expected from child in, 119-54;
standards of teaching for teacher in, 119-25;
instincts of child in, 125-54;
history of fairy tales to be used in, 158-203;
classes of tales used in, 204-44;
sources of material for fairy tales to be used in, 245-64.
King-book, Persian, The, 175-76.
Lang, Andrew, tales by, as literary form, 69.
Lambikin, 21.
Language, expression in, 125-27.
Lazy Jack, 224-25.
Life,
a sense of, 14;
criticism of, 120-21;
fairy tale a counterpart to, 8-9.
Lists: of tales, 246-53; _See_ Sources of material.
Literature,
mind and soul in, 39-40;
qualities of, 40;
fairy tale as, 37-87.
Little Lamb and the Little Fish, 147-48, 267-70.
Little Two-Eyes, 145, 265-66.
Little Thumb,
editions, 189;
tale, 232, 281-82.
Literary collections of tales, 170-200.
Logical method of selecting tales, 95-96.
Long tales, opposed to child's interests, 35-36.
Lord Peter, 232, 277.
Magpie's Nest, 151, 270-72.
Märchen Brunnen or Fairy-tale Fountain, 2-3.
Mass,
principle of, 58-59;
illustrated in: Oeyvind and Marit, 61-62;
Three Billy-Goats Gruff, 65.
Medio Pollito, 215-16.
Memory, development of, 226.
Message, of the tale, 100; of this book. _See_ Summaries.
Method of story-telling,
the recreative, 113-17;
criticism of, 114-16;
illustration of, 116-17;
direct moral, 143.
Mind, in literature, 40.
Miscellaneous,
tales, a list, 249-53;
editions, 259-62.
Modern tale,
compared with old tale, 234-43;
types of, 235-43;
what it is, 243;
tales, by Andersen, 28-29, 234, 248, 256-57.
Motifs in folk-tales, classified, 97-98.
Mother Goose,
tales of, 179-81;
her Melodies, 187, 195, 197, 198.
Musicians of Bremen, 130-31, 219-20.
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