Absolutely no news to write you, unless you will consider it news that my hedge of dahlias, which I planted myself a month ago, is coming up like nothing else in the world but Jack's Beanstalk.

"Why, you're like the giant," said Miss Wren, "when he came home in the land of Beanstalk, and wanted Jack for supper.

Suppose that you are confronted with the statement that Jack climbed up the beanstalk into the sky.

But the Renan-France method is to write like this: "When we consider Jack's curious and even perilous heredity, which no doubt was derived from a female greengrocer and a profligate priest, we can easily understand how the ideas of heaven and a beanstalk came to be combined in his mind.

We can imagine these two friends, the old man and the young, wandering in the woods together at evening, looking at the red and level clouds, as on that night when the old man pointed to a small beanstalk, and told his too imaginative companion that this also might be made to scale the heavens.

You know nothing about Jack at all, except that some people say that he climbed up a beanstalk.

You must interpret him in terms of the beanstalk religion; you cannot merely interpret religion in terms of him.

Because her miracle is incredible to his somewhat old-fashioned materialism, he does not therefore dismiss it and her to fairyland with Jack and the Beanstalk.

It is as if I (being entirely ignorant of botany and chemistry) said that the beanstalk grew to the sky because nitrogen and argon got into the subsidiary ducts of the corolla.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.

Jack and the beanstalk.

Jack and the beanstalk.

Beanstalk Jack.

Mickey Mouse and the beanstalk.

Walt Disney's Mickey and the beanstalk.

Walt Disney's Mickey and the beanstalk paint book.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.

Jack and the beanstalk.

Mickey Mouse and the beanstalk.

Walt Disney's Mickey and the beanstalk.

Walt Disney's Mickey and the beanstalk paint book.

Walt Disney's Mickey and the beanstalk.

Jack and the beanstalk, retold by Mathilda Schirmer.

They grew and grew, like Jack's beanstalk prodigiously.

Trifling details may be inaccurate, Jack may not have climbed up so tall a beanstalk, or killed so tall a giant; but it is not such things that make a story false; it is a far different class of things that makes every modern book of history as false as the father of lies; ingenuity, self-consciousness, hypocritical impartiality.