"This play was written for a special occasion, Children's Book Week, and first produced in my own branch with a cast of children that I knew intimately. Perhaps I had certain of them in mind as I wrote the parts. It was "tried out" both in Pittsburgh and Evansville. Its suitability as a short play for Book Week makes me venture to offer it to other children's librarians who might be wanting just that sort of thing. The plot was inspired by a series of lessons about the Decimal Classification, which we give the schools each term as part of a course in library instruction.

We told stories from the books mentioned for several weeks prior to the play in order to make all the children well acquainted with the characters. They did not seem familiar with the Brunhilde stories, so a short cycle was told from the "Rhine-gold." During the week of the play, a display of the books, including the characters in

the play, was exhibited under the poster inviting all boys and GIRLs to the performance. In Pittsburgh, one school gave it in a classroom without any stage effects, each character standing under his library number until his turn came to take part."

FRANCES ELIZABETH ATCHINSON.
Evansville, Indiana.
December, 1925

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