New Paris." Goethe learned very early to tell stories acceptably; he came naturally by an art in which his mother excelled, of whom he says "Von Mütterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabuliren." His playfellows were constantly entertained by the recitals of his marvellous adventures, and they were delighted especially with his report of a certain garden into which he found his way through a gate in the city walls, and within whose magical boundaries all manner of strange things were seen by the adventurous boy. This was told so often and with such circumstantiality that it was accepted as fact not only by the listeners, but by the narrator himself. Each boy privately visited the part of the wall where the gate was supposed to be, and each found confirmation of the story. There were even warm discussions as to the exact position of certain wholly imaginary things which each one had seen. Every one who has the privilege of being intrusted with the confidences of children knows that the imagination has an |