Chapter 1

Preface

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NEW WIZARD

by L.Frank Baum,

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The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

Indianapolis, U.S.A.

BY L. FRANK BAUM AND W. W. DENSLOW
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INTRODUCTION

T^OLK lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed child-
hood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a
wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous
and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and
Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than
all other human creations.

Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations,
may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for
the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which
the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together
with all the horrible and blood-curdling incident devised by
their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern
education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks
only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with
all disagreeable incident.

Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of to-day.
It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonder-
ment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares
are left out.

r.. At ., L. FRANK BAUM.

Chicago, April, 1900.

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