_Eleanor Farjeon_ The King’s Barn 179 _Oscar Wilde_ The Happy Prince 211 _Olive Schreiner_ Truth 222 _The Contributor’s Club_, “The Atlantic Monthly” A Parable for Philanthropists 235 _Robert Louis Stevenson_ The Tadpole and the Frog 239 Selected Bibliography of Fairy Tales, Allegories, Parables and Fables 239 CHAPTER VII BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE 241 _Llewelyn Powys_ Beau Nash 243 _Lytton Strachey_ Lady Hester Stanhope 248 _Stephen Chalmers_ The Beloved Physician 258 Selected Bibliography of Biographical Narrative 279 CHAPTER VIII REMINISCENT NARRATIVE 280 _Ludwig Lewisohn_ My Fate 283 _Laura Spencer Portor_ The Photograph 287 _Lord Frederick Hamilton_ My Childhood 293 _Henry W. Nevinson_ Shrewsbury School 300 _Kenneth Grahame_ The Burglars 310 _Juliet Soskice_ The Kitchen 318 Selected Bibliography of Reminiscent Narrative 327 CHAPTER IX NARRATIVES OF ADVENTURE 328 _R. B. Townshend_ Wild Justice 331 _Herbert Quick_ The Blizzard 352 _J. H. Rosny_ The Attack of the Tiger 364 _Pierre Loti_ The Storm 372 Selected Bibliography of Narratives of Adventure 379 CHAPTER X NARRATIVES OF TRAVEL 381 _Julian Street_ The Departure 384 _Christopher Morley_ Up the Wissahickon 390 _Robert Louis Stevenson_ Travels with a Donkey Our Lady of the Snows--Father Apollinaris 394 The Monks 399 Selected Bibliography of Narratives of Travel 406 CHAPTER XI SKETCHES 407