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In Story-land

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A collection of short stories crafted for young children and kindergarten teachers, combining simple fairy tales, moral vignettes, and pared-down historical narratives. Each tale presents imaginative episodes—mountain giants, fairies, enchanted mirrors—alongside practical scenes about helpfulness, courage, and daily observances, often concluding with clear lessons. Language and episodes suit oral telling and classroom adaptation; notes encourage teachers to shorten or reshape tales for age and attention. Several pieces retell heroic or civic episodes in child-friendly form, while many center on small acts of kindness, imaginative play, and nature observation, intended to stimulate sympathy, usefulness, and the storytelling skills of caregivers and educators.

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Works by Denton J. Snider

I. Commentary on the Literary Bibles, in 9 vols.
1. Shakespeare's Dramas, 3 vols.
Tragedies (new edition)
Comedies (new edition)
Histories (new edition)
2. Goethe's Faust.
First Part (new edition)
Second Part (new edition)
3. Homer's Iliad (new edition)
Homer's Odyssey
4. Dante's Inferno
Dante's Purgatory and Paradise
II. Poems—in 4 vols.
1. Homer in Chios
2. Delphic Days
3. Agamemnon's Daughter
4. Prorsus Retrorsus
5. Johnny Appleseed's Rhymes
III. Miscellaneous.
1. Walk in Hellas
2. The Freeburger's—a novel
3. World's Fair Studies
4. Commentaries on Froebel's play-songs
5. Psychology and the Psychosis
6. The Father of History—Herodotus