themselves, not the terms of their manifestations. For them thinking
is seeing over again, it is going through the sensations that the real
object would have produced. Everything which goes on within them is
in the form of pictures, or rather, inanimate scenes in which life is
partially reproduced. . . . Since the child has, as yet, no capacity
for abstraction, he finds a stimulating power in words and a
suggestive inspiration which holds him enchanted. They awaken vividly
colored images, pictures far more brilliant than would be called into
being by the objects themselves."

Surely, if this be true, we are taking from children that rare power
of mental visualization by offering to their outward vision an _actual_
picture.

I was struck with the following note by a critic of the _Outlook_,
referring to a Japanese play but which bears quite directly on the
subject in hand.

"First, we should be inclined to put insistence upon appeal by
_imagination_. Nothing is built up by lath and canvas; everything
has to be created by the poet's speech."

He alludes to the decoration of one of the scenes which consists
of three pines, showing what can be conjured up in the mind of
the spectator.


Ah, yes. Unfolding now before my eyes
The views I know: the Forest, River, Sea
And Mist--the scenes of Ono now expand.