Show german folklore one of the delights ot of traveling in germanis the familiarity one soon acquires or more property properly speaking perhaps renews with the familiar folklore and fairy legend of the country if in england one can caa scarcely escape the charles dickens characters in germany one Is constantly noting the types immortalized by the brothers grimm indeed it 11 would be quite as difficult to imagine germany without mother hulda goldilocks red riding hood the Bremen town musicians hansel and gretel and the rest of the company of dear familiars as it would be to think of old london without the Pickwick lans german painters sculptors invariably try their talents of portraying their ideals among the childrens fairytale fairy tale folk and it must be a fine bit ot of work indeed that passes the muster of german criticism one of the strongest bonds that holds the german in the characteristic grip of loyalty to the th fatherland la Is this very love of children and fairy tales the christian herald W |