Includes index.Part I. Principles of interpretation; The visitor's first interest; Raw material and its product; The story's the thing; Not instruction but provocation; Toward a perfect whole; For the younger mind -- Part II. The written word; Past into present; Nothing in excess; The mystery of beauty; The priceless ingredient; Of gadgetry; The happy amateur; Vistas of beauty -- Part III. Freeman Tilden's later interpretive writings : Mindsight: the aim of interpretation; That elderly schoolma'am: Nature; The constructive aspect of inaction; Two Concord men in a boat; An interpretive ideal.