The Queen Bee and Other Nature Stories

"Carl Ewald is one of Denmark's most popular writers; the present work is full of instruction for young people." -Publishers Weekly "The nature stories of Ewald deserve a wider popularity in England than they have yet obtained, but which this translation should do much to win." -Educational Record "Holding that Nature, with its manifold and many-coloured life, contains new material on which children in their own way can draw, he has taken as the subject of his stories the phenomena of natural history. As I think, he has performed his task in a taking and attractive manner, the child's fancy being sufficiently enthralled at the same time that it gets a true conception of the working of natural forces, a conception which will fix itself in the memory all the better for its poetical clothing. It seems to me that the author's view is a sound one, so I gladly recommend his little book to parents who wish their children to read what is both pleasurable and instructive." -H. F. Ewald "They have so much poetical imagination, ingenuity of incident, and bright wit, that they seem entitled to some share in the popularity accorded to the children's tales of another Danish writer, Hans Christian Andersen. Some English children have already listened to them eagerly, and many others, I hope, will take them into their favour when they are sent out into the world. They may even be read with pleasure by some who are children no longer." -G. C. Moore Smith CONTENTS The Queen Bee The Anemones The Mist The Beech And The Oak The Dragon-Fly and the Water-lily The Weeds The Sparrow