THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 95 



in architecture and made practical and real in 

 every phase of young life to-day. How capti- 

 vating are the children's books and magazines, 

 how toothsome and taking the stories, how full 

 of nature teaching about flowers and grass and 

 trees and bees and birds and sky and clouds. 

 How these fairies ever love the garden and the 

 edge of the forest and the silvery moonlight. 

 How gently and wondrously they disport them- 

 selves, how loyal to their king and queen, how 

 kind their thoughts, ingenious their devices, 

 helpful their ministrations and ever in sympathy 

 with the best. Has not the "Christ-Child's" 

 coming and the angelic song in mid-heaven 

 given shape to thought in sympathy and love 

 and is still peopling heaven and earth with 

 these charming little people? I always feel 

 sorry for the man or woman who stoutly argues 

 against fairies and the fairy world. So lack- 

 ing in the finer and more delicate perceptions of 

 childhood and its best helpers. Happy is he 

 who is full of the story element and who, in 

 teaching, can people the worlds of his children 

 with life and beauty and folks. Nothing can 

 . be truer than fairy wisdom and nothing kinder 

 than fairy ministration. We have told our 

 children and grandchildren many a story of 

 their prowess and grace and service, and they 



