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(6) Stimulate and direct potential literary creativity.

(7) Serve as foreword for book-study of literature.

(8) Give knowledge of life.

(1) The story will give pleasure. Educational thought is growing more and more cordial toward this value. Undisturbed by any charge of "soft pedagogy," it finds wholesome pleasure, not merely relaxing, but constructive, building toward physical health, mental brightness, and moral virtue. Here is the story's opportunity. Every one admits it is pleasure-giving. The stern-minded among us must realize that this is its deepest educational value. It is from the good pleasure the child gets from the story that will ripen good taste, good will, good effort, and all the other goods some teachers and parents regard as more substantial merit. Besides, joy appears to be here to stay. To attempt to take it out of the plan of things is, to say the least, short-*sighted. American civilization is looking hopefully to the school for better national standards of pleasure. The school is under obligation to educate the children to enjoyment of wholesome pleasure.

(2) The story will stir and direct the imagination. We do not yet grant in practice the importance of the imagination. We do not purposefully