Child Stories From The Masters

Child Stories  From The Masters by Maud Menefee Being a few modest interpretations of some phases of the master works done in a child way Illustrated 1899 from the foreword: "In writing these stories, no attempt has been made to follow the plot or problem of the poems, which in almost every case lies beyond the child's reach. The simple purpose as found in the whole; or the suggestion of only a stanza or scene, has been used as opportunity for picturing and reflecting something of the poetry and intention of the originals. ... The writer hopes for "Child Stories" that it may serve to suggest to teachers how they may utilize the great store of poetry and art at hand. To do this they are themselves under the joyful necessity of keeping close to the great sources." Table of Contents: PIPPA - Robert Browning - From "Pippa Passes" MIGNON - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  - From "Wilhelm Meister" SIEGFRIED - Richard Wagner - From "Niebelungen Ring" A FISH AND A BUTTERFLY - Robert Browning - From "Amphibian" HOW MARGARET LED FAUST THROUGH THE PERFECT WORLD - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - From "Faust" BEATRICE - Dante Alighieri - From "The Inferno" PARSIFAL - Richard Wagner - From "Parsifal" THE ANGELUS - About the painting by Jean François Millet FRIEDRICH AND HIS CHILD-GARDEN  THE HOLY NIGHT - About the painting by Antonio Allegri da Correggio SAUL AND DAVID - Robert Browning - From "Saul" A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION A WORD LIST Illustrations: THE SPINNER - Jean François Millet INNOCENCE - Jean Baptiste Greuze MIGNON - Paul Kiessling SIEGFRIED - F. Leeke "AT THE FARTHEST END OF THE MEADOW" - Yeend King LISEUSE - Jules Le Febvre THE BEATA BEATRICE - Dante Gabriel Rossetti ASPIRATION - George Frederick Watts THE ANGELUS - Jean François Millet THE HOLY NIGHT - Antonio Allegri da Correggio THE DIVINE SHEPHERD - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo Maud E. Menefee (b. 1870), was a student at Shimer College in the Seminary period. She later became a noted author of children's literature, and co-founded the Allendale School for Boys in Lake Villa with her husband Edward Bradley. Her best-remembered work, Child Stories from the Masters (1901), is dedicated to fellow Seminary alum Andrea Hofer. (source: http://shimercollege.wikia.com/wiki/Maud_Menefee )