IC: Bain, R. Nesbit, _Cossack Fairy Tales_, _Russian Folk
Tales_.

III. THE SCIENCE OF FOLKLORE

Cox, Roalfe, _Cinderella_. (Introduction by Lang.)
Clouston, W. A., _Popular Tales and Fictions_. 2 vols.
Gomme, G. L., _Folklore as an Historical Science_.
Hartland, E. S., _The Science of Fairy Tales_.
Keightly, Thomas, _Fairy Mythology_.
Lang, Andrew, _Perrault's Popular Tales_. (Introduction.)
MacCulloch, J. A., _The Childhood of Fiction_.

IV. PEDAGOGY

Adler, Felix, _The Moral Instruction of Children_, pp. 63-79.
Kready, Laura F., _The Study of Fairy Tales_. (Indispensable.)
MacClintock, P. L., _Literature in the Elementary School_, pp.
92-112.
McMurry, Charles, _Special Method in Reading_, pp. 47-69.

SECTION III: FAIRY STORIES--TRADITIONAL TALES

INTRODUCTORY

The forty-three tales in this section have been chosen (1) in the light
of what experience shows children most enjoy, (2) to represent as fully
as possible the great variety of our traditional inheritance, (3) to
afford an opportunity of calling attention to additional riches in
various collections, and (4) to suggest a fair minimum of the amount of
such material to be used with children. As in all such questions of
judgment, there must inevitably be differences of opinion. Many will
doubtless find stories missing that seem necessary even to so small a
list, while others will find tales included that may seem questionable.
Such a selection can be, and is intended to be, only tentative, a
starting point from which there are many lines of departure.

_Folklore._ These tales are all from the traditional field. They are
mainly of anonymous and popular origin, handed down orally by peasants.
The investigation of their origin, distribution, and interrelations
belongs to the science of folklore. A good-sized library could be filled
entirely with the books concerned with the studies and disputations in
this interesting field. While the folklorists have very much of value to
tell the teacher, their questions may be largely ignored until the
latter is quite fully acquainted with a large body of the acknowledged
masterpieces among folk stories, especially those which the schools have
taken to themselves as useful in elementary work. Teachers interested in
pursuing the matter further--and it is to be hoped there are many
such--will find suggestions in the notes at the head of each tale and in
the preceding b