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whose ragged dress was transformed at a touch

Perrault first told the histories of "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots,"

"Hop o' My Thumb," and "Sleeping Beauty"

to his son. It is related that the lad wrote the

stories down from memory, and the father in

some cases adopted the boy's version in preference to his own. Having in his

youth rebelled against the formal education of his day, Perrault produced,

when he was little short of seventy, the famous children's book by which he

is still remembered. Knowing the child's soul, he knew the human soul.

The Cinderella tale has 345 variations. There are many incidents common

to them all-such as the hearth abode, the helpful animals (mice, etc.), the

heroine disguise, the lovesick prince. But the one incident that determines

the Cinderella tale proper is the recognition of the heroine by her slipper.

In the Greek tale, "Rhodope," the slipper is carried off by an eagle and

dropped into the lap of the king of Egypt, who seeks and marries the owner.

In the Hindu tale, "Sodewa Bai," the rajah's daughter loses her slipper in

the forest, where it is found by the prince. The Zuñi Indian version is

called "Poor Turkey Girl." The English "Catskin" is considered the oldest

of the pure Cinderella types, appearing first in 1550, in Gian Francesco

Straparela's "Happy Nights." The name "Cinderella" appeared first in

CINDERELLA AND

THE SILVER SLIPPER

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to such plays as "Sally," "Irene," and many others-all of them versions

of the Cinderella story, and all conspicuous successes in their day.

"The Cinderella story always wins," said the manager. The little girl sitting

in the ashes dreaming the long dreams of youth and finding the fondest and

most extravagant of her dreams realized through a fairy godmother, who

transforms her by the magic wand into a fit mate for her fairy prince,

makes an appeal that is irresistible. Of all fairy romances, "Cinderella"

is the best example of the class called "tales of wish-fulfilment."

And now for Robin Hood, the romantic freebooter of Sherwood Forest.

Robin-o'-the-Wood was the symbol of the yearnings of the great common

people of his land and time when they were

bowed beneath the oppressor's yoke. He was,

first of all, the people's hero. The other heroes

of the same general age as Robin Hood were all either of royal blood or of

the noble class: King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, Charle-

magne, Alfred the Great, Roland, and Richard the Lion-Hearted. Robin

Hood was the humble yeoman set up by the simple people as their chosen

champion against despotic rule.

The bold and generous outlaw of Sherwood Forest, robbing the rich to

relieve the needs of the poor, letting fly his shaft against the king in mail

ROBIN HOOD OF

SHERWOOD FOREST

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d by N. C. Wyeth

David McKay Co., Philadelphia

"Merrie Sherwood" in Robin Hood's day was a royal hunting forest, extending

twenty-five miles from north to south through the rolling hills of Nottingham-

shire. Though now denuded and broken up into small estates, it retains its im-

memorial association with the bandit hero and his followers. "I think these oaks

at dawn and even, or in the balmy breathings of the night," wrote Tennyson,

"" as the foresters were

"will whisper evermore of Robin Hood." "Robert's men,

called in documents of the olden times, dressed in green and gold to render

themselves less distinct in a countryside where broom and gorse so abundantly

flourished

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The MENTOR

Vol. 11

No. 11

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SERIAL

NO. 250

DECEMBER, 1923

IX IMMORTALS

AND HOW

THEY GREW

INTO BOOKS

BY ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE

FORMER EDITOR OF "THE BOOKMAN"

ROBIN HOOD

KING ARTHUR

LEMUEL GULLIVER

ROBINSON CRUSOE

GREATHEART

CINDERELLA

THESE

HESE heroes are no mere story-book

characters they stand with the real

heroes of history. They have grown not only

into books, into plays, into operas, and into

moving pictures, but they have grown into

of the life of

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ARTHUR, "THE KNIGHTLY KING,"

IN THE PANOPLY OF WAR

A heroic bronze figure by Peter Vischer in

the Franciscan church, Innsbruck, Austria

and age

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From a drawing by George Cruikshank

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THE FAIRY GODMOTHER CHANGES CINDERELLA'S KITCHEN DRESS INTO A

BEAUTIFUL BALL GOWN WHILE THE PUMPKIN CARRIAGE WAITS

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From a drawing in an old book of English travels called "Itinerarium Curiosum"

KIRKLEY ABBEY, YORKSHIRE, WHERE, ACCORDING TO ANCIENT CHRONICLERS,

ROBIN HOOD ENDED HIS DAYS

It is recorded that the great hero of the people, when advanced in years, appealed to the prioress of the abbey for

aid when sore stricken, and that she bled him and allowed him to die to avenge his deeds committed in the past

"against religious persons." His body was buried on the hill designated "C" on the drawing, under a flat stone

with a cross, close to the road. There, said the abbess, he should lie that all who passed might know the dreaded

bandit was dead, and thereafter "without feare take their jorneys that way"

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Courtesy United Artists Corporation

ROBIN HOOD MEETS MAID MARIAN

AFTER A LONG ABSENCE

A scene from a screen presentation of the famous tale that for seven

centuries has inspired books, ballads, pictures, plays, and operas

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David McKay Co., Philadelphia

THE OUTLAW AND HIS ARCHERS MEET A FOE IN THE

GLADES OF THE FOREST

DAPPLED

Reproduced from "Robin Hood," illustrated by N. C. Wyeth

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KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE

From a tapestry designed by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. The knights-Sir Lancelot, Galahad, Tristram,

Percivale, Bedivere, and their brothers in chivalry-were personal attendants on King Arthur, permanently attached

to his service

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ROBIN HOOD DIED IN THIS ROOM IN KIRKLEY ABBEY, YORKSHIRE

According to the story, as he was dying, he shot an arrow through the open casement, requesting that he be buried

where it fell

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On Juan Fernandez Island, about a day's voyage west of Valparaiso, Chile, Selkirk

was voluntarily landed in 1704 from the vessel Cinque Ports. The story of his

life there for fifty-two months inspired part of Defoe's immortal classic, "Robinson

Crusoe"

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From a painting by J. D. Linton

MR.

GREATHEART

The picture shows him armed with the sword that slew the Giant

Despair in the second part of "The Pilgrim's Progress"

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The tiny folk of Lilliput are examining the "man-mountain" found sleeping on their island. A

derrick has been raised to remove his sword and pistol; his person and accoutrement are the

object of lively curiosity

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U. & U.

IN MEMORY OF CHARLES PERRAULT

This charming piece of sculpture was placed in the Tuileries Gardens,

favorite park of Paris children. Perrault translated and arranged

eighteen fairy stories under the title, Les Contes de Ma Mere l'Oye

("Tales of My Mother the Goose"). Included in the series were

Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Blue Beard, and Red Riding Hood

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A CHILD'S DAY

ITS MOODS, ACTIVITIES, AND VARIED OCCU-

PATIONS PICTURED BY MODERN ARTISTS

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"DAY DREAMS," By Thomas Couture, 1815-1879

How the heart of childhood dances on a sunny day!

Work and play and strange romances-what a wide, wide world have they!

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DUVERGER

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"FEEDING THE BIRD," By Theophile E. Duverger, 1821-1901

A happy interval in the day's routine. A little girl kneels on a red tile floor feeding her feathered pet. This picture, acquired

by the Metropolitan Museum a generation ago, is beloved of all young visitors to the galleries

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In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"GETTING DRESSED," By Edouard Frère, 1819-1886

The gentle art of Edouard Frère finds characteristic expression in this charming picture of a French baby at its morning toilet

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"BREAKFAST," By Philip Laszlo, 1869-

Born in Hungary, Laszlo has done most of his painting

The handsome lad in the sunny breakfast-room is the artist's elder son.

in England. Scores of his portraits hang on the walls of stately British homes

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"THE SUPPER HOUR," By Jules Muenier

Jules Muenier has a delightfully natural way of putting on canvas episodes in a child's day. The young girl at the table

is a favorite model. You will see her farther on in "The Piano Lesson"

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"SATURDAY NIGHT," By Viggo Johannsen

A Danish artist describes with telling brush the zero hour of depression in a boy's day

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"THE BEACH NEST," By Virginie Demont-Breton

Water and water sprites are specialties of this French artist. Madame Demont-Breton knows how to paint the sea as Jules

Breton painted fields and harvest workers. She knows boys, too, and what goes on in their heads

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"THE LANDLUBBER'S SEA BATH," By Virginie Demont-Breton

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"THE TORN HAT," By Thomas Sully, 1783-1972

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"A DUTCH BOY," By Aelbert Cuyp, 1605-1691

All dressed up and going somewhere, probably with a robust mother in balloon petticoats. Aelbert Cuyp is not a "modern,"

he was born three centuries ago; but The Mentor makes no apology for including in this series the Dutch painter's study of

this Eternal Boy. Merriment in his eyes, mischief on his lips, he can be counted on to cheer up any corner he is permitted

to occupy

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In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Israëls was the best loved of modern Dutch masters.

sorrowed peasantry. Peace broods in this old Dutch room, where age and childhood join in sweet communion

"GRANDMOTHER'S TREASURE," By Josef Israëls, 1824-1911

"The Millet of Holland," he was called, but his humble folk are more tender and content than the French master's labor-

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In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"PRESSED INTO SERVICE," By Erskine Nicol, 1825-1904

A little housewife, sent to the baker's for the family loaf, is obviously conscious of the responsibility of her task

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WIRE

"THE BUSY HOUR," By Claus Meyer

Tense preoccupation is the keynote of this scéne. Perched on the center bench a tiny maiden, primly coiffed and pinafored, sets an example of industry to schoolmates less prac-

Claus Meyer, admired abroad for his domestic story pictures, is happiest showing children at work and play. It is safe to say that he never created a busier little

tical than she.

group than this, knitting, drawing, scrawling under the eye of a patient teacher

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In the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

"PREPARING FOR CHURCH," By Edouard Frère

The week has swung around to Sunday, and the mother of Marie and Paul has got them ready for church. Dressed in her

very best hat and coat, Marie looks well satisfied to parade her pretty costume, but, clothes having no interest for her brother,

he is frankly bored and glum

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"Great Expectations" has been called a model combination of mystery story and refined

melodrama. It differs from most books that Dickens wrote. Cooling lies about six miles from

Rochester and near Dickens' home at Gadshill Place. The marshes mark the place where the

River Thames broadens out before it mingles with the North Sea. The whole of "Great Ex-

pectations" may be said to turn upon the incidents in the opening chapter, where the scene is

laid in the Cooling marshes. Here Pip met the convict Magwitch, who had escaped from

the terrible prison hulk near by

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"THE PIANO LESSON," By Jules Muenier

A scale forgotten, notes carelessly played! The old master tempers his reproof, realizing that the future holds many more

troublous lessons than this one for his small pupil

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rge Ford Morris

"THE RUDDY JOYS OF WINTER TIME," By Eugen Kaempffer

"THROUGH THE FIELDS," A portrait group by George Ford Morris

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From an engraving by Gustav Doré

THE INSPIRATION OF "THE PIED

PIPER" LEGEND

In Germany, 20,000 youths followed a lad named Nicho-

las up the Rhine Valley toward the Mediterranean. It is

claimed that the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is

but an echo of the wanderings of the followers of Nicholas

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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WERE SPENT IN

BUILDING AND FURNISHING THIS HOUSE

Standing eight feet high and about six feet wide, this doll's

house built for Peter the Great is perfect even to the minut-

est detail. It is now in the Royal Museum, Amsterdam

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CElliott & Fry, London

KATE GREENAWAY

A leading feature of her work was her revival of the

quaint costume of the early nineteenth century. Her

type so captured public fancy that it was said Kate

Greenaway dressed the children of two continents

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HAT WAS THE

STAR OF

BETHLEHEM?

THE M

Most picturesque among ancient tales is

that of the Magi-Eastern Wise Men who

journeyed from the Orient to lay beside the

cradle of Christ the world's first Christmas

gifts.

terpretati

We three kings of Orient are,

Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthasar.

The original story tells us little about the

Wise Men. Even how many there were we

do not know. Au-

gustine and Chrys-

ostom said there

were twelve; common

Catholic tradition

fixed the number at

three because of the

three gifts. Truth is,

we know little about

the Magi. They step

out of the wings,

move gracefully

across the stage, and

disappear into the

darkness of the pro-

scenium.

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