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| Intellect, appeal of fairy tales to, 53–54. |
| 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. |
