. The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine . mber number of TheStory Hour. For humor, relaxation and pure fun we haveno better stories than the deeds of Brer Rab-bit in the Uncle Remus books. These stories,told as they were by a grayheaded, kindheartedold negro to a little boy who came to his cabin THE KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY MAGAZINE 49 fireside every evening after supper, reveal abeautiful picture of a child race, typified inUncle Remus, speaking to a child of a moremature race. They understood each other, achild looking into the face of a child. Whata unique situation that is: the untaught racebecomi
. The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine . mber number of TheStory Hour. For humor, relaxation and pure fun we haveno better stories than the deeds of Brer Rab-bit in the Uncle Remus books. These stories,told as they were by a grayheaded, kindheartedold negro to a little boy who came to his cabin THE KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY MAGAZINE 49 fireside every evening after supper, reveal abeautiful picture of a child race, typified inUncle Remus, speaking to a child of a moremature race. They understood each other, achild looking into the face of a child. Whata unique situation that is: the untaught racebecoming the teacher of the educated music, humor, good-natured raillery, skill- of literature by a primitive race. When wecompare the stories of the Negro with those ofother races we see this difference: the Indianshero was Hiawatha; the Norsemans was Sieg-fried; the Greeks was Ulysses ; but the Negroshero was a rabbit. Other races had men andwomen as characters in their stories but theNegro has only animals. His hero is the harm-. SOME EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF AMERICATeachers College, Columbia Uni-yersity, New York ful blending of animal traits and human nature,as given in the stories that were told every dayto the children of the South, meant an educa-tional impress, we must then duly consider thework of the black mammies and uncles whotold these stories to the children by the fireside,in the fields, and under the shade of the trees. The Negro bringing some of his stories fromAfrica, getting some from his white master,others from the Indians, and himself creatingmany on the plantation, has produced a pieceof literature that will remain for all time arecord of what he thought and felt during hisyears of servitude in America. An interestingexample it is too, of the unconscious making less rabbit, who outwits the fox, the lion andwolf; not by might or power, but by craft hesucceeds. If the hero of a race reveals racialcharacteristics then the Negros message to theworld is
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