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NATUKE STUDY 



Mercury was a great traveller, and, as he loved Apollo's 

 cows, he drove them constantly before him in the great 



blue meadow which surrounds 

 the whole earth. 



This myth should be told to 

 them as a story, not pausing, as 

 I have done in passing, to show 

 its origin in the phenomena of 

 the winds and clouds, but in- 

 vesting it with all the possible 

 charms of literature and art. 

 (iiierber's "Myths" and Gay- 

 ley's " Classic Myths " will be 

 found invaluable for this pur- 

 pose. Gayley, in particular, in 

 his "Commentaries" in the 

 back of the book gives valuable 

 information concerning pictures 

 and poems. "Nature Myths 

 and Stories," by Flora J. Cooke 

 (15 cents), may be helpful, par- 

 ticularly at first, in enabling 

 the teacher to bridge over the 

 chasm which separates the 

 myth, as told for the adult stu- 

 dent in the various text-books 

 on mythology, from the com- 

 prehension of the little child. 

 By means of the hektograph, the outlines, at least, of 

 Giovanni di Bologna's Flying Mercury, the Belvedere 

 Mercury of the Vatican, the Mercury in Repose in 

 Naples, or Praxiteles' Mercury, may be made familiar 

 to the children. 



