Show Russia Removes Fairy Bans Childish Classics Restored Though the Russians Were by y No Means the to Consider Nursery LIterature Dangerous It If the belief Is widespread tI a at 1 the world Is s going mad counter evl evidence Is furnished In a quarter least leat to be Hus suspected Russia That country has hils removed remo Its ban banon banon on children s 8 an sal 1 tall fair tales Robinson Crusoe Is fir first t on the list of nursery fa fat orites to be reprinted by th hundred thousand I It may be that this book bool will not come from the press just nl as Defoe notI I wrote It for It his an element clement ot of pIety that Sot SO let Russia does not formally endorse Robert Hobert Lynd of the News s Chron ChronIcle idle Icle London finds it difficult to un tin how ho the authors ties originally came to belle e that reading leading the nursery classics was as like like- likely likely ly to turn hood I ei hesik II children into wicked reactionaries lie He points out that I The s 5 sew l ew Clothes Is lS as sharp a satire on the ways ot of courtiers rs as any CommunIst could have written Also lie he argues that the tho marriage of n a poor man w ith a princess or n a poor girl with witha vitha a king might be used as propaganda for human but I ideas e s es were rushing too fast In one direction for tor t 80 officials to see it that wn He draws upon merl for support The Amet lean has stir sur vh ed the peril perils licit In faIry totes tales for fora 1 century and a halt half without eser Ing h Ming hid to the stories so as asto asto to mat mal I a the beggar maid marry th the president In instead tead ot of the king and to leave Iele using happily ever after ns as the wife ICe of the mayor of Mw e lorI fork Mr L Lynd nd does the Russians ins jus tire tice in that they base e not been the first people to suspect the presence of Dol poison on In nursery litera literature ture here ha hate haI I been I ot of otso so stern n a cast tint they looked on fairy tales as rh olous lies which It was as dangerous to put Into the binds J ot of children r n It mIght also be added tint modern radicals radical hate lune come near the Puritan l Ideal eJI by condemning fairy tales for another that reason they gh e false falge ot of life lite Our early Puritans may have known nothing ot of these thee stories and so did not condemn them but th the substitutes they offered are shown sho In Inn ina n a recent book bool by Dr A S Rosen RosenbAch back bAch American Children s Loot c upon which Miss Carolyn Wells offers this comment In the Ule Mw ew Q To me the book book is of at absorbIng Interest because ft cons com laces Inces me or I 1111 lase e hereto heretofore Core refused to belies behe e the In-the stern and rock rockbound bound hearts ot of the grim II Fathers I felt elt the awful tiles hies ot of theIr strict and rigorous training of at young pro pro- pie must mut be exaggerated if IC not post untrue But ju judging as one may and must by the lIterature en to youth In those thoe times It Is esi e lent dent that the Fathers were more cruel to theIr or prIn then the fife younger generation of today la Is to Its parents The 1 he first book for children ren prInted in published In Lo ton In was as The Mule ot of the Rex e Crea tare ture to Fe Practiced Cry L Day In AU All the Particulars or of It Which Are Arc ten len The book thus Bc t seh sensible oC o thy Corruption dally how It Inclines thee to cull culland and to good groin under it and bets ill Jt It I 1 hl hid no reason to be surprised at these admonitions for tor at m own o Sunday school I recited tram from an in P int catechism m which I stilt rem em ember her ber almost t word for word One Oue of o Its early questions was as What hat are arc you ou then by nature To which my glib lIb reply for for I I knew n lessons s 's Ons was ns I am an enemy of 01 Lo Loa o oa a child of oC Satan and aM an heir or of het hel At 1 that time I had Tl ti mature age ot of four I literary L D gest |