Specialization—even in how to amuse children—has not yet reached Virginia, where
Uncle William still tells his wonderful tales to “ole marster’s gran’-chillun.”
His stories are anything that may come into his mind from the
glory of “our fam’ly befo’ de wah” to the fin inte-
ligence of “Mr. Rabbit” and the vast
wit of “Brer Fox”

In striking contrast is the “story-hour” of the New York Public Library, where a trained story-teller
”reads” a carefully chosen story to a group of boys and girls. In selecting her story she considers
the nationality of the children who are to hear it—their present environment and the
probable influence of the story. In this picture Italian children
of the lower West Side are shown