THE SONGS AND MUSIC

The edition of Wichard Lange and the former English translations have the form and style of a music book. In separating the contents for this division, the mottoes commentaries, and mother communing have been placed in the first volume, which may be called the Mother’s volume. The songs and music are reserved for the present volume, which is the Children’s volume. What it contains is suitable for children’s ers and voices. The poems in this volume are not literal translations of those in the original Mother Play, but attempts to cast Froebel’s ideas into truly poetic dorm. A few songs have been added, In order to develop the thoughts suggested in some of the more important plays and a series of Wandering Games has been given to illustrate Froebel’s method of genetic evolution.