RICH MAN'S POTSHERD.
THE SINGER AND THE DONKEY.
CHILD AND MILK.
RICH MAN GIVING A FEAST.
KING SOLOMON AND THE MOSQUITOES.
THE KING WHO PROMISED TO LOOK AFTER TENNAL RANAN'S FAMILY.
VIKADAKAVI.
HORSE AND COMPLAINANT.
THE WOMAN AND THE STOLEN FRUIT. From "An Indian Tale or Two," by William Swinton.
This is sometimes due to a kind action shown to some humble person or to an animal.
THE THREE SONS. From "The Kiltartan Wonder Book," by Lady Gregory.
THE FLYING SHIP. From "Russian Fairy Tales," by F. B. Bain.
HOW JESPER HERDED THE HARES. From "The Violet Fairy Book," by Andrew Lang.
YOUTH, LIFE AND DEATH. From "Myths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars," by Jeremiah Curtin.
JACK THE DULLARD. From "Fairy Tales," by Hans Christian Andersen.
THE ENCHANTED WHISTLE. From "The Golden Fairy Book."
THE KING'S THREE SONS.
HUNCHBACK AND BROTHERS. From "Legends of the French Provinces."
THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE. From "Russian Wonder Tales," by Post Wheeler. This story is more suitable for reading than telling.
THE QUEEN BEE. From Grimm's Fairy Tales, edited by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.
THE WONDERFUL BIRD. From "Roumanian Fairy Tales," by J. M. Percival.
THE STORY OF SAINT BRANDONS. Vol. 7, page 52.
THE STORY OF SAINT FRANCIS. Vol. 5, page 125.
THE STORY OF SANTA CLARA AND THE ROSES.
SAINT ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY. Vol. 6, page 213.
SAINT MARTIN AND THE CLOAK. Vol. 6, page 142. From the "Legenda Aurea."
THE LEGEND OF SAINT MARJORY. From "Tales Facetiae."
MELANGELL'S LAMBS. From "The Welsh Fairy Book," by W. J. Thomas.
OUR LADY'S TUMBLER. Twelfth Century Legend Done Out of Old French into English, by J. H. Wickstead. This story may be shortened and adapted without sacrificing too much of the beauty of the style.
THE SONG OF THE MINISTER. From "A Child's Book of Saints," by William Canton. This should be shortened and somewhat simplified for narration, especially in the technical, ecclesiastical terms.
THE STORY OF SAINT KENELM, THE LITTLE KING.
THE STORY OF KING ALFRED AND SAINT CUTHBERT.
THE STORY IF AEDBURG, THE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD.
THE STORY OF KING HAROLD'S SICKNESS AND RECOVERY. From "Old English History for Children," by E. A. Freeman. I commend all those who tell these stories to read the comments made on them by E. A. Freeman himself.
THE SUMMER PRINCESS. From "The Enchanted Garden," by Mrs. M. L. Molesworth. This may be shortened and arranged for narration.
THOMAS AND THE PRINCESS. From "Twenty-six Ideal Stories for Girls," by Helena M. Conrad. A fairy tale for grown-ups, for pure relaxation.
THE TRUCE OF GOD. From "All-Fellows Seven Legends of Lower Redemption," by Laurence Housman.
THE SELFISH GIANT. From "Fairy Tales," by Oscar Wilde.
THE LIGEND OF THE TORTOISE. From "Windlestraw, Legends in Rhyme of Plants and Animals," by Pamela Glenconner. From the Provenç al.
FAIRY GRUMBLESNOOKS.
A BIT OF LAUGHTER'S SMILE. From "Tales for Little People," Nos. 323 and 318, by Maud Symonds.
THE FAIRY WHO JUDGED HER NEIGHBORS. From "The Little Wonder Box," in "Stories Told to a Child," by Jean Ingelow.
LE COURAGE.
LE'ÉCOLE.
LE JOUR DE CATHERINE.
JACQUELINE ET MIRANT. From "Nos Enfants," by Anatole France.
THE GIANT AND THE JACKSTRAW. From "The Book of Knight and Barbara," by David Starr Jordan. For very small children.
THE MUSICIAN.
THE LEGEND OF THE CHRISTMAS ROSE. From "The Girl from the Marshcroft," by Selma Lageröf. Both stories should be shortened and adapted for narration.
I trust that the grouping of my stories in this section may not be misleading. Under "Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales" I have included many stories which contain valuable ethical teaching, deep philosophy and stimulating examples for conduct in life. I regret that I have been unable to find a good collection of stories from history for narrative purposes. I have made a careful and lengthy search, but the stories are all written from thereadingpoint of view rather than thetelling.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIANFairy Tales; translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. Dutton.Fairy Tales; edited by W. A. and J. K. Craigie. Oxford University Press.
BABBITT, E. C.Jataka Tales. Century.
BAIN, R. N.Cossack Fairy Tales. Burt.Russian Fairy Tales. Burt.
BRIANT, EGBERTHistory of English Balladry. Badger.
BUDDHAThe Jataka; or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births;translated from the Pali by Various Hands. In Six Volumes.University Press.
BUCKLEY, E. F.Children of the Dawn. Stokes.
BULLETIN, OF FOLK LORE. Liege.
CALTHORPE, DION C.King Peter. Duckworth.
CANFIELD, W. W.The Legends of the Iroquois. Wessels.
CANTON, WILLIAMA Child's Book of Saints. Dutton.A Child's Book of Warriors. Dutton.
CHILD LORE. Nimmo.
CHODZKO, A. E. B.Slav Fairy Tales; translated by E. J. Harding. Burt.
CLARK, K. M.Maori Tales. Nutt.
COELHO.Tales of Old Lusitania. Swan Sonnenschein.
CONRAD, JOSEPH.Twenty-six Ideal Stories for Girls. Hutchinson.
COUCH, MABEL QUILLER-Cornwall's Wonderland. Dutton.
CURTIN, JEREMIAHMyths and Folk Tales of the Russians, Western Slavs and Magyars. Little.
CUSHING, F. H.Zuni Folk Tales. Putnam.
DARTON, E. J. H.Pilgrim Tales; from Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims. Dodge.Wonder Book of Old Romance. Stokes.
DASENT, SIR G. W.Norse Fairy Tales. Putnam.
DAVIDS, T. W. RHYSBuddhist Birth Stories. Trübner.
DAVIS, F. H.Myths and Legends of Japan. Crowell.
EARLE, M. R.Heroes of Asgard. Macmillan.Evenings with the Old Story Tellers. Leavitt and Allen.
EWALD, CARLThe Queen Bee and Other Nature Tales; translated byC. C. Moore-Smith. Nelson.
FERRAND, GABRIELContes Populaires Malgaches. Leroux.
FIELDE, ADELEChinese Nights' Entertainment. Putnam
FRANCE, ANATOLENos Enfants. Hachette.
FREEMAN, E. A.Old English History for Children. Dutton.
FRERE, MARYOld Deccan Days. Murray.
FROISSARTStories from Froissart; edited by Henry NeboltMacmillan.
GESTA ROMANORUM. Swan Sonnenschein.
GILES, H. A.Chinese Fairy Tales. Gowans.
GITTÉE, AUGUSTContes Populaires du Pays Wallon. Vanderpooten.
GLENCONNER, LADY (PAMELA TENNANT)Windlestraw, Legends in Rhyme of Plants and Animals.Chiswick Press.
GOLDEN FAIRY BOOK. Hutchinson.
GREGORY, LADY AUGUSTAThe Kiltartan Wonder Book. Dutton.
GRIMM, J. L. K. AND W. K. GRIMMFairy Tales;translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. Leppincott.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLERUncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings. Appleton.
HARTLEY, C. G.Stories of Early British Heroes. Dent.
HEARN, LAFCADIOOut of the East. Houghton.
HERODOTUSWonder Storied from Herodotus;edited by N. Barrington D'Almeida. Harper.
HERPIN, EUGÉNEAu Pays Du Legendes. Calliére.
HIGGINS, M. M.Stories from the History of Ceylon for Children. Capper.
HOUSMAN, LAURENCEAll-Fellows Seven Legends of Lower Redemption.Kegan Paul.
INGELOW, JEANThe Little Wonder Box. Griffeths, Farren and Company.Stories Told to a Child. Little.
IRVING, WASHINGTONRip Van Winkle. Macmillan.
JACOBS, JOSEPHIndian Fairy Tales. Putnam.More English Fairy Tales. Putnam.
JORDAN, DAVID STARRThe Book of Knight and Barbara. Appleton.
JOYCE, P. W.Old Celtic Romances. Longmans.
KEARY, ANNIE AND ELIZAHeroes of Asgard. Macmillan.
KER, ANNIEPapuan Fairy Tales. Macmillan
KINGSLEY, CHARLESHeroes. Macmillan.
KIPLING, RUDYARDThe Jungle Book. Macmillan.The Kipling Reader. Appleton.The Second Jungle Book. Macmillan.
KNOWLES, J. H.Folk Tales of Kashmir. Trübner.
LAGERLÖF, SELMAThe Girl from Marshcroft. Little.
LANG, ANDREWArabian Nights' Entertainment. Longmans.The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans.The Crimson Fairy Book Longmans.The Green Fairy Book. Longmans.The Lilac Fairy Book. Longmans.The Olive Fairy Book. Longmans.The Orange Fairy Book. Longmans.The Red Fairy Book. Longmans.The Violet Fairy Book. Longmans.
LANG. L. B.All Sorts of Stories Book. Longmans.
LEGENDA AUREA.
LELAND, C. G.Legends of Florence. Macmillan.Unpublished Legends of Virgil. Stock.
MACKENZIEIndian Myths and Legends. Gresham Publishing House.
MACLEOD, MARYA Book of Ballad Stories. Stokes.
MOLESWORTH, MRS. M. L.The Enchanted Garden. Unwin.
MONCRIEFF, A. H. HOPEClassic Myths and Legends. Gresham Publishing House.
MORRISON, SOPHIAManx Fairy Tales. Nutt.
NAAKE, J. T.Slavonic Fairy Tales. King.
NOBLE, M. E. AND K. COOMARASWAMYMyths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Holt.
ORCZY, BARONESS AND MONTAGU BARSTOWOld Hungarian Fairy Tales. Dean.
PARKER, MRS. K. L.Australian Legendary Tales. Nutt.
PEARSE, W. G.The Children's Library of the Saints. Jackson.
PERCIVAL, J. M.Roumanian Fairy Tales. Holt.
PERRAULT, CHARLESFairy Tales. Dutton.
PITMAN, N. H.Chinese Fairy Stories. Crowell.
PLUTARCHPlutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls; retold by W. H. Weston. StokesTales from Plutarch, by F. J. Rowbotham. Crowell.
RAGOZIN, Z. A.Tales of the Heroic Ages; Frithjof, Viking of Norway, and Roland, Paladin of France. Putnam.Tales of the Heroic Ages; Siegfried, Hero of the North, and Beowulf, Hero of Anglo-Saxons. Putnam.
RATTRAY, R. S.Hansa Folk Lore, Custooms, Proverbs, etc. Clarendon Press.
RHYS, ERNESTThe English Fairy Book. Stokes.Fairy Gold. Dutton.The Garden of Romance. Kegan Paul.
RINDER, FRANKOld World Japan. Allen.
ROBINSON, T. H.Tales and Talks from History. Caldwell.
ROUSE, W. H. D.The Talking Thrush. Dutton.
SCHIEFNER, F. A.Tibetan Tales. Trübner.
SCUDDER, H. E.The Book of Legends Told Over Again. Houghton.
SELLERS, CHARLESTales from the Land of Grapes and Nuts. Field and Tuer.
SERVIAN STORIES AND LEGENDS.
SHEDLOCK, M. L.A Collection of Eastern Stories and Legends. Dutton.
SKINNER, C. M.Myths and Legends of Flowers, Fruits and Plants. Lippincott.
SMITH, J. C. AND G. SOUTARBook of Ballads for Boys and Girls. Oxford University Press.
STEEL, MRS. F.A.Tales of the Punjab. Macmillan.
STRICKLAND, W. W.Northwest Slav Legends and Fairy Stories. Erben.
SWINTONAn Indian Tale or Two; Reprinted from Blackheath Local Guide.
SWINTON AND CATHCARTLegendary Lore of all Nations. Ivison, Taylor & Company.
SYNNERTONIndian Nights' Entertainment. Stock.
TALES FACETLÆ.
TENNANT, PAMELA (LADY GLENCONNER)The Children and the Pictures. Macmillan.
THEAL, G. M.Kaffir Folk Lore. Swan Sonnenschein.
THOMAS, W. J.The Welsh Fairy Book. Stokes.
THORNHILL, MARKIndian Fairy Tales. Hatchard.
TOPÉLIUS, ZACHRISFairy Tales from Finland. Unwin.
TREMEARNE, MARY AND NEWMANUncle Remus in Hansaland.
WHEELER, POSTRussian Wonder Tales. Century.
WICKSTEAD, J. H.Our Lady's Tumbler; Twelfth Century Legend Done Out of Old French into English. Mosher.
WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS AND NORA ARCHIBALD SMITHThe Fairy Ring. Doubleday.Tales of Laughter. Doubleday.
WILDE, OSCARFairy Tales. Putnam.
WILSON, RICHARDThe Indian Story Book. Macmillan.
WRATISLAW, A. H.Sixty Folk Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources. Stock.
1. I venture to hope (at this long distance of years) that mylanguage in telling the story was more simple than appears from thisaccount.
2. This difference of spelling in the same essay will be muchappreciated by those who know how gladly children offer an orthographicalalternative, in hopes that one if not the other may satisfy the exigencyof the situation.
3. See "List of Stories."
4. At the Congressional Library in Washington.
5. Letters of T. E. Brown, page 55.
6. Page 55.
7. In further illustration of this point see "When Burbage Played,"Austen Dobson, and "In the Nursery," Hans Andersen.
8. "Les jeux des enfants," page 16.
9. A noted Greek gymnast struck his pupil, though he was applauded bythe whole assembly. "You did it clumsily, and not as you ought, forthese people would never have praised you for anything really artistic."
10. For further details on the question of preparation of the story, seechapter on "Questions Asked by Teachers."
11. Sully says that children love exact repetition because of theintense enjoyment bound up with the process of imaginative realization.
12. At the Summer School at Chautauqua, New York, and at LincolnPark, Chicago.
13. There must be no more emphasis in the second manner thanthe first.
14. From "Education of an Orator," Book II, Chapter 3.
15. One child's favorite book bore the exciting title of "Birth,Life and Death of Crazy Jane."
16. This does not imply that the child would not appreciate in the rightcontext the thrilling and romantic story in connection withthe finding of the Elgin marbles.
17. One is almost inclined to prefer Marjorie Fleming's littleinnocent oaths.
"But she was more than usual calm,She did not give a single dam."
18. Published by John Loder, bookseller, Woodbridge, in 1829.
19. From "Literary Values."
20. A story is told of Confucius, who, having attended a funeral,presented his horse to the chief mourner. When asked why he bestowedthis gift, he replied: "I wept with the man, so I felt I ought todosomething for him."
21. This experiment cannot be made with a group of children forobvious reasons.
22. From an address on "The Cultivation of the Imagination."
23. "The House in the Wood" (Grimm), is another instance of triumphfor the youngest child.
24. See list of stories under this heading.
25. To be found in Andrew Lang's "The Violet Fairy Book."
26. To be found in Jacob's "More English Fairy Tales."
27. From the "Thabagata."
28. For selection of suitable stories among legends of the Saints,see list of stories under the heading, "Stories from the Lives of theSaints."
29. These words have been set most effectively to music by Miss MargaretRuthven Lang.
30. From "The Use of Fairy Tales," in "Moral Instruction of Children."
31. See Chapter on Questions asked by Teachers.
32. From "Talks to Teachers," page 93.
33. An excellent account of this is to be found in "The Song of Roland,"by Arthur Way and Frederic Spender.
34. Njal's Burning, from "The Red Book of Romance," by Andrew Lang.
35. From "Studies of Childhood."
36. England.
37. From "The Lockerbie Book," by James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1911.Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
38. From "Virginibus Puerisque."
39. See "Long Bow Story;" "John and the Pig."
40. Published by George Allen & Co.
41. This is even a higher spirit than that shown in the advice givenin the "Agamemnon" (speaking of the victor's attitude after the takingof Troy):
"Yea, let no craving for forbidden gainBid conquerors yield before the darts of greed."
42. It is curious to find that the story of Puss-in-Boots in its variantsis sometimes presented with a moral, sometimes without. In the Valleyof the Ganges it hasnone.In Cashmere it hasone moral, in Zanzibar another.
43. From Hans Christian Andersen, in "Childhood in Literature and Art."
44. "Sartor Resartus," Book III, page 218.
45. From "Childhood in Literature and Art."
46. See "Eastern Stories and Fables," published by Routledge.
47. See Chapter I.
48. In this matter I have, in England, the support of Dr. Kimmins,Chief Inspector of Education in the London County Council, who isstrongly opposed to the immediate reproduction of stories.
49. These remarks refer only to the illustrations of stories told.Whether children should be encouraged to self-expression in drawing(quite apart form reproducing in one medium what has been conveyed tothem in another), is too large a question to deal with in this specialwork on story-telling.
50. I give the following story, quoted by Professor Ker in his Romaneslecture, 1906, as an encouragement to those who develop the art ofstory-telling.
51. The melody to be crooned at first and to grow louder ateach incident.
52. "The punishment that can most affect Merfolk is to restrict theirfreedom. And this is how the Queen of the Sea punished the Nixie ofour tale."
53. The three stories from Hans Christian Andersen have for so longformed part of my répertoire that I have been requested toinclude them. I am offering a free translation of my own from theDanish version.
54. Alas! dear Augustin, All is lost, lost!
My thanks are due to:
Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, forpermission to use an extract from "The Madness of Philip," and toher publishers.
To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin, for permission to use extract from "ThouShalt Not Preach," by Mr. John Burroughs.
To Messrs. Macmillan and Co., for permission to use, "Milking Time,"of Miss Rossetti.
To Mrs. William Sharp, for permission to use passage from "The DivineAdventure," by Fiona MacLeod.
To Miss Ethel CLifford, for permission to use the poem of "The Child."
To Mr. James Whitcomb Riley and the Bobbs Merrill Co., for permissionto use "The Treasure of the Wise Man."
To Professor Ker, for permission to quote from "Sturla the Historian."
To Mr. John Russell, for permission to print in full, "A Saga."
To Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co., for permission to use "The TwoFrogs," from the Violet Fairy Book, and "To Your Good Health," fromthe Crimson Fairy Book.
To Mr. Heinemann and Lady Glenconner, for permission to reprint "TheWater Nixie," by Pamela Tennant, from "The Children and the Pictures."
To Mr. Maurice Baring and the Editor ofThe Morning Post,for permission to reprint "The Blue Rose" fromThe Morning Post.
To Dr. Walter Rouse and Mr. J. M. Dent, for permission to reprint from"The Talking Thrush" the story of "The Wise Old Shepherd."
To Rev. R. L. Gales, for permission to use the article on "NurseryRhymes" from theNation.
To Mr. Edmund Gosse, for permission to use extracts from "Father and Son."
To Messrs. Chatto & Windus, for permission to use "Essay on Child'sPlay" (fromVirginibus Puerisque) and other papers.
To Mr. George Allen & Co., for permission to use "Ballad for aBoy," by W. Cory, from "Ionica."
To Professor Bradley, for permission to quote from his essay on"Poetry and Life."
To Mr. P. A. Barnett, for permission to quote from "The Commonsenseof Education."
To Mr. James Stephens, for permission to reprint "The Man andthe Boy."
To Mr. Harold Barnes, for permission to use version of the "The ProudCock."To Mrs. Arnold Glover, for permission to printtwo of her stories.
To Miss Emilie Poulson, for permission to use her translation ofBjörnsen's Poem.
To George Routledge & Son, for permission to use stories from"Eastern Stories and Fables."
To Mrs. W. K. Clifford, for permission to quote from "Very Short Stories."
To Mr. W. Jenkyn Thomas and Mr. Fisher Unwin, for permission to use"Arthur in the Cave" from the Welsh Fairy Book.