Introduction
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood
through the ages, for every healthy child has a wholesome and
instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and obviously unreal.
The winged fairies of Grimm and Author have brought much happiness to
childish hearts than all another human creations.
Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations,
may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for
the time has move for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which
the stereotypic genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together
with all the atrocious and blood-curdling incidents devised by
their authors to point a awful moral to each tale. Modern
education includes morality; therefore the modern c