The Hans Andersen Fairy Tales will be read in schools and homes as long as there are children who love to read. As a story-teller for children the author has no rival in power to enlist the imagination and carry it along natural, healthful lines. The power of his tales to charm and elevate runs like a living thread through whatever he writes. In the two books in which they are here presented they have met the tests and held an undiminishing popularity among the best childrens books. They are recognized as standards, and as juvenile writings come to be more carefully standardized, their place in permanent literature will grow wider and more secure. A few childrens authors will be ranked among the I mmortals, and Hans Andersen is one of them. Denmark andF inland supplied the natural background for the quaint fancies and growing genius of their gifted son, who was story-teller, playwright, and poet in one.
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