very sense beneficial. Their
immediate or remote effects, next to that of amusement, are either
educational, or hygienic. Some teach history, some geography, some
excellent sentiments or good language. Others inculcate reverence and
obedience to the elder brother or sister, to parents or to the emperor,
or stimulate the manly virtues of courage and contempt for pain. The
study of the subject leads one to respect more highly, rather than
otherwise, the Japanese people for being such affectionate fathers and
mothers, and for having such natural and docile children. The character
of the children's plays and their encouragement by the parents has, I
think, much to do with that frankness, affection, and obedience on the
side of the children, and that kindness and sympathy on the side of the
parents, which are so noticeable in Japan, and which is one of the many
good points of Japanese life and character.

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_REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED_

THE HEART OF OAK BOOKS

A Collection of Traditional Rhymes and Stories for Children, and of
Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose for Use at Home and at School, chosen
with special reference to the cultivation of the imagination and the
development of a taste for good reading.

EDITED BY

CHARLES ELIOT NORTON

=Book I. Rhymes, Jingles and Fables.= For first reader classes.
Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 128 pages. 25 cents.

=Book II. Fables and Nursery Tales.= For second reader classes.
Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill. 176 pages. 35 cents.

=Book III. Fairy Tales, Ballads and Poems.= For third reader classes.
With illustrations after George Cruikshank and Sir John
Tenniel. 184 pages. 40 cents.

=Book IV. Fairy Stories and Classic Tales of Adventure.= For fourth
reader grades. With illustrations after J. M. W.
Turner, Richard Doyle, John Flaxman, and E.
Burne-Jones. 248 pages. 45 cents.

=Book V. Masterpieces of Literature.= For fifth reader grades. With
illustrations after G. F. Watts, Sir John Tenniel, Fred
Barnard, W. C. Stanfield, Ernest Fosbery, and from
photographs. 318 pages. 50 cents.

=Book VI. Masterpieces of Literature.= With illustrations after Horace
Vernet, A. Symington, J. Wells,