CHAPTER VI

FAIRY TALES, ALLEGORIES, PARABLES AND FABLES 176

_Eleanor Farjeon_ The King’s Barn 179 _Oscar Wilde_ The Happy Prince 211 _Olive Schreiner_ Truth 222 _The Contributor’s Club_, “The Atlantic Monthly” A Parable for Philanthropists 235 _Robert Louis Stevenson_ The Tadpole and the Frog 239 Selected Bibliography of Fairy Tales, Allegories, Parables and Fables 239