A UNIQUE BOOK. 
'■'•For children, parents, teachers, and all who are interested 
in the psychology of childhood." 
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The Book of Knight and Barbara. 
By David Starr Jordan. Illustrated. i2mo. 
Cloth, $ 1 .^ 0 . 
The curious and fascinating 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 traves¬ 
ties of the work of real story-tellers. Two students of the de¬ 
partment 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. Mait¬ 
land in the hands of hundreds of children. These drew illus¬ 
trative 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 sug¬ 
gestions. These pictures made by the children have been found 
to interest deeply other children, a fact which gives them a 
definite value as original documents in the study of the workings 
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.” 
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. 
