| The
fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach,
not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves
it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to
him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic,
the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid
of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible. |
