MODERN STORIES
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 the reading point of view rather than the telling.
[ BOOKS SUGGESTED TO THE STORY-TELLER
AND BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE
LIST OF STORIES]
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN
Fairy 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, EGBERT
History of English Balladry. Badger.
BUDDHA
The 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, WILLIAM
A 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, JEREMIAH
Myths 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. RHYS
Buddhist 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, CARL
The Queen Bee and Other Nature Tales; translated by
C. C. Moore-Smith. Nelson.
FERRAND, GABRIEL
Contes Populaires Malgaches. Leroux.
FIELDE, ADELE
Chinese Nights' Entertainment. Putnam
FRANCE, ANATOLE
Nos Enfants. Hachette.
FREEMAN, E. A.
Old English History for Children. Dutton.
FRERE, MARY
Old Deccan Days. Murray.
FROISSART
Stories from Froissart; edited by Henry Nebolt
Macmillan.
GESTA ROMANORUM. Swan Sonnenschein.
GILES, H. A.
Chinese Fairy Tales. Gowans.
GITTÉE, AUGUST
Contes 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 AUGUSTA
The Kiltartan Wonder Book. Dutton.
GRIMM, J. L. K. AND W. K. GRIMM
Fairy Tales;
translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. Leppincott.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
Uncle Remus; His Songs and His Sayings. Appleton.
HARTLEY, C. G.
Stories of Early British Heroes. Dent.
HEARN, LAFCADIO
Out of the East. Houghton.
HERODOTUS
Wonder Storied from Herodotus;
edited by N. Barrington D'Almeida. Harper.
HERPIN, EUGÉNE
Au Pays Du Legendes. Calliére.
HIGGINS, M. M.
Stories from the History of Ceylon for Children. Capper.
HOUSMAN, LAURENCE
All-Fellows Seven Legends of Lower Redemption.
Kegan Paul.
INGELOW, JEAN
The Little Wonder Box. Griffeths, Farren and Company.
Stories Told to a Child. Little.
IRVING, WASHINGTON
Rip Van Winkle. Macmillan.
JACOBS, JOSEPH
Indian Fairy Tales. Putnam.
More English Fairy Tales. Putnam.
JORDAN, DAVID STARR
The Book of Knight and Barbara. Appleton.
JOYCE, P. W.
Old Celtic Romances. Longmans.
KEARY, ANNIE AND ELIZA
Heroes of Asgard. Macmillan.
KER, ANNIE
Papuan Fairy Tales. Macmillan
KINGSLEY, CHARLES
Heroes. Macmillan.
KIPLING, RUDYARD
The Jungle Book. Macmillan.
The Kipling Reader. Appleton.
The Second Jungle Book. Macmillan.
KNOWLES, J. H.
Folk Tales of Kashmir. Trübner.
LAGERLÖF, SELMA
The Girl from Marshcroft. Little.
LANG, ANDREW
Arabian 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.
MACKENZIE
Indian Myths and Legends. Gresham Publishing House.
MACLEOD, MARY
A Book of Ballad Stories. Stokes.
MOLESWORTH, MRS. M. L.
The Enchanted Garden. Unwin.
MONCRIEFF, A. H. HOPE
Classic Myths and Legends. Gresham Publishing House.
MORRISON, SOPHIA
Manx Fairy Tales. Nutt.
NAAKE, J. T.
Slavonic Fairy Tales. King.
NOBLE, M. E. AND K. COOMARASWAMY
Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Holt.
ORCZY, BARONESS AND MONTAGU BARSTOW
Old 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, CHARLES
Fairy Tales. Dutton.
PITMAN, N. H.
Chinese Fairy Stories. Crowell.
PLUTARCH
Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls; retold by W. H. Weston. Stokes
Tales 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, ERNEST
The English Fairy Book. Stokes.
Fairy Gold. Dutton.
The Garden of Romance. Kegan Paul.
RINDER, FRANK
Old 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, CHARLES
Tales 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. SOUTAR
Book 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.
SWINTON
An Indian Tale or Two; Reprinted from Blackheath Local Guide.
SWINTON AND CATHCART
Legendary Lore of all Nations. Ivison, Taylor & Company.
SYNNERTON
Indian 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, MARK
Indian Fairy Tales. Hatchard.
TOPÉLIUS, ZACHRIS
Fairy Tales from Finland. Unwin.
TREMEARNE, MARY AND NEWMAN
Uncle Remus in Hansaland.
WHEELER, POST
Russian 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 SMITH
The Fairy Ring. Doubleday.
Tales of Laughter. Doubleday.
WILDE, OSCAR
Fairy Tales. Putnam.
WILSON, RICHARD
The Indian Story Book. Macmillan.
WRATISLAW, A. H.
Sixty Folk Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources. Stock.
[FOOTNOTES]
1. I venture to hope (at this long distance of years) that my
language in telling the story was more simple than appears from this
account.
2. This difference of spelling in the same essay will be much
appreciated by those who know how gladly children offer an orthographical
alternative, in hopes that one if not the other may satisfy the exigency
of 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 by
the whole assembly. "You did it clumsily, and not as you ought, for
these people would never have praised you for anything really artistic."
10. For further details on the question of preparation of the story, see
chapter on "Questions Asked by Teachers."
11. Sully says that children love exact repetition because of the
intense enjoyment bound up with the process of imaginative realization.
12. At the Summer School at Chautauqua, New York, and at Lincoln
Park, Chicago.
13. There must be no more emphasis in the second manner than
the 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 right
context the thrilling and romantic story in connection with
the finding of the Elgin marbles.
17. One is almost inclined to prefer Marjorie Fleming's little
innocent 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 bestowed
this gift, he replied: "I wept with the man, so I felt I ought to do something for him."
21. This experiment cannot be made with a group of children for
obvious reasons.
22. From an address on "The Cultivation of the Imagination."
23. "The House in the Wood" (Grimm), is another instance of triumph
for 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 the
Saints."
29. These words have been set most effectively to music by Miss Margaret
Ruthven 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 given
in the "Agamemnon" (speaking of the victor's attitude after the taking
of Troy):
"Yea, let no craving for forbidden gain
Bid conquerors yield before the darts of greed."
42. It is curious to find that the story of Puss-in-Boots in its variants
is sometimes presented with a moral, sometimes without. In the Valley
of the Ganges it has none. In Cashmere it has
one 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 is
strongly 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 to
them in another), is too large a question to deal with in this special
work on story-telling.
50. I give the following story, quoted by Professor Ker in his Romanes
lecture, 1906, as an encouragement to those who develop the art of
story-telling.
51. The melody to be crooned at first and to grow louder at
each incident.
52. "The punishment that can most affect Merfolk is to restrict their
freedom. And this is how the Queen of the Sea punished the Nixie of
our tale."
53. The three stories from Hans Christian Andersen have for so long
formed part of my répertoire that I have been requested to
include them. I am offering a free translation of my own from the
Danish version.
54. Alas! dear Augustin, All is lost, lost!
[NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT]
My thanks are due to:
Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, for
permission to use an extract from "The Madness of Philip," and to
her publishers.
To Messrs. Houghton Mifflin, for permission to use extract from "Thou
Shalt 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 Divine
Adventure," 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 permission
to 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 Two
Frogs," from the Violet Fairy Book, and "To Your Good Health," from
the Crimson Fairy Book.
To Mr. Heinemann and Lady Glenconner, for permission to reprint "The
Water Nixie," by Pamela Tennant, from "The Children and the Pictures."
To Mr. Maurice Baring and the Editor of The Morning Post,
for permission to reprint "The Blue Rose" from The 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 "Nursery
Rhymes" from the Nation.
To Mr. Edmund Gosse, for permission to use extracts from "Father and Son."
To Messrs. Chatto & Windus, for permission to use "Essay on Child's
Play" (from Virginibus Puerisque) and other papers.
To Mr. George Allen & Co., for permission to use "Ballad for a
Boy," 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 Commonsense
of Education."
To Mr. James Stephens, for permission to reprint "The Man and
the Boy."
To Mr. Harold Barnes, for permission to use version of the "The Proud
Cock."
To Mrs. Arnold Glover, for permission to print
two of her stories.
To Miss Emilie Poulson, for permission to use her translation of
Björnsen'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.