house.

"'You promised me when I was little, grandmother, that I should never
go from you till I wished it of myself. And I would rather die with
you than live after you.'"

Here the moral courage is so splendidly shown: none of these heroes
feared to die in battle or in open single fight; but to face death by
fire for higher considerations is a point of view worth presenting to
the child.

In spite of all the dramatic excitement roused by the conduct of our
soldiers and sailors, should we not try to offer also in our stories
the romance and excitement of saving as well as taking life?

I would have quite a collection dealing with the thrilling adventures
of the Lifeboat and the Fire Brigade, of which I shall present
examples in the final story list.

Finally, we ought to include a certain number of stories dealing with
death, especially with children who are of an age to realize that it
must come to all, and that this is not a calamity but a perfectly
natural and simple thing. At present the child in the street
invariably connects death with sordid accidents. I think they should
have stories of death coming in heroic form, as when a man or woman
dies for a great cause, in which he has opportunity of admiring
courage, devotion and unselfishness; or of death coming as a result of
treachery, such as we find in the death of Baldur, the death of
Siegfried, and others, so that children may learn to abhor such deeds;
but also a fair proportion of stories dealing with death that comes