Early Culture of the Imagination

The interesting article to which MR. GATTY refers will be found in the *Quarterly Review*, No. XLI. Sir Walter Scott, in a letter addressed to Edgar Taylor, Esq. (the translator of *German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories by M.M. Grimm*), dated Edinburgh, 16th Jan. 1823, says— "There is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them [the *Tales*] which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood, than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them. In the latter case, their minds are, as it were, put into the stocks, li…