ABOUT ONCE EVERY HUNDRED YEARS SOME WISEACRE gets up and tries to banish the fairy tale. Perhaps I had better say a few words in its defence, as reading for children. It is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives them less of a false impression. I think what profess to be realistic stories for children are far more likely to deceive them.
