A UNIQUE WOBK. 



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THE BOOK OF 



Knight and Barbara 



By DAVID STADB JORDAN, Ph. D., 



President of Leland Stanford Junior University. 

 Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. 



THE curious and fascinatiiif? tales and pictures of this unique book 

 are introduced by Dr. Jordan with the following preface : "The 

 only apology the author can make in this case is that he never meant 

 to do it. He had told his own children many stories of many kinds, 



some original, some imitative, 

 some travesties of the work of real 

 story-tellers. Two students of the 

 department of education in the 

 Stanford University — Mrs. Louise 

 Maitland, of San Jose, and Miss 

 Harriet Hawley, of Boston — asked 

 him to repeat these stories before 

 other children. Miss Hawley, as 

 a stenographer, took them down for future reference, and while the author 

 was absent on the Bering Sea Commission of 1896 she wrote them out in 

 full, thus forming the material of this book. Copies of the stories were 

 placed by Mrs. Maitland in the hands of hundreds of children. These 

 drew illustrative pictures, after their fashion; and from the multitude 

 offered, Mrs. Maitland chose those which are here reproduced. The scenes 

 in the stories were also subjected to the criticisms of the children, and in 

 many cases amended to meet their suggestions. . . . These pictures 

 made by the children have been found to interest deeply other children, 

 a fact which gives them a detinite value as original documents in the 

 study of the working of the child-mind. At the end of the volume are 

 added a few true stories of birds and of beasts, told to a different audience. 

 With these are a few drawings by university students, which are intended 

 to assist the imagination of child-readers." 

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