The Art of Story-Telling

by Marie L. Shedlock

INDEX

• Adler, Felix, on animal stories, [80]
• Adventures of a Beetle, [29]
• Alice in Wonderland, [57], [136]
• Analysis of motive and feeling, to be avoided, [43]
• Andersen, Hans C., [2], [15], [16], [21], [29], [31], [34], [39], [41], [44], [45], [62], [63], [80], [112], [116], [123], [124], [138], [150], [156], [232]
• Animal Play, Psychology of, [105]
• Art, true purpose of, [109]
• Arthur in the Cave, [165]-[9]
• Artifices of story telling, [32]
• Bacon, J. D. D., [12]
• Ballad for a boy, [107]
• Baring, M., [193]
• Barnes, Earl, [60]
• Barnett, P. A., [104]
• Barnett, Mrs. P. A., [70]
• Barrow, E., [40]
• Beautiful things need appropriate language, [82]
• Beetle, the, [125]
• Beginning, should be striking, [39]
• Belloc's Cautionary Tales, [56]
• Béranger, [25]
• Bible Stories, [67]
• Björnson's tribute to Andersen, [116]
• Blazing Mansion, the, [74]
• Bluebeard, [76]
• Blue Rose, the, [187]
• ‘Blugginess,’ the thirst for, [85]
• Books, choice of, [61]
• Bradley, Professor, [119]
• Brown, T. E., [17]
• Buddha, stories of, [87], [127], [200], [203]
• Buffoonery, to be discouraged, [54]
• Burroughs, John, [58], [108]
• Buster Brown, [53]
• Butterfly, Story of, [45]
• Call of the Homeland, [71]
• Calypso, [93]
• Calthrop, Dion, [92]
• Carlyle, T., [115]
• Chap books, [51], [52]
• Chesterton, G. K., on sentimentality, [46]
• Child, the, [87]
• Child Play, [104], [105]
• Children's Catalogue, [211]
• Choice of books, [61]
• Christopher, St., legend of, [162]-[5]
• Cid, the, [133]
• Cinderella, [71], [90], [119], [120]
• Classical Stories, [218], [223]
• Class teaching, use of story-telling in, [132]
• Clifford, Ethel, [88]
• Clifford, Mrs. W. K., [40], [64]
• Commonplace, to be avoided, [99]
• Common sense of Education, [104]
• Common sense, illustrated in stories, [71], [224]
• Concealment of emotion by children, [114]
• Confucius, [60]
• Co-operation of audience, how to enlist, [37]
• Cory, W., [107]
• Coquelin, [27], [34]
• Crazy Jane, [47]
• Creative work, value of, [113]
• Curious Girl, [51]
• Curtin, Russian Myths, [90]
• Cymbeline, [94]
• Danger of side issues, [6]
• Danger of altering the story for the occasion, [8]
• Darning Needle, [125]
• Death, stories dealing with, [86]
• Death-bed scenes, [55]
• Defence of Poesy, [5], [91], [110]
• Detail, excess of, [21]
• Dick Whittington, [100]
• Didactic fiction, a low type of art, [4], [59]
• Dido and Aeneas, [66]
• Difficulties of the story, [6]
• Dinkey Bird, the, [64]
• Direct appeal, danger of, [111]
• Divine Adventure, the, [81]
• Dobson, Austin, [21]
• Don Quixote, [21], [133]
• Dramatic and poetic elements, [134]
• Dramatic Excitement, [82]
• Dramatic joy, [4], [93]
• Dramatic presentation, of moral value, [59]
• —— indispensable, [89]
• Dramatisation, danger of, [111]
• Drudgery, essential for success, [29]
• Educational uses of story telling, [4]
• Effect of story, difficult to gauge, [14]
• —— how to obtain and maintain, [89]
• Elements, desirable, [61]
• —— to be avoided, [42]
• Eliot, George, [83]
• Emotions, unable to find expression, [60]
• Emphasis, danger of, [33]
• Endings, dramatic, [40]
• Enfant Prodigue, [18]
• Environment, [95]
• Essentials of the story, [25]
• Ewing, Mrs., [50], [104], [106]
• Examples for Youth, [56]
• Experience, the appeal to, [62]
• Fact and make-believe, [119]
• Fairchild Family, [44]
• Fairy tales, [58], [72], [73], [74], [75], [102], [104], [112]
• —— do not appeal to some, [121]
• —— mixed with science, to be avoided, [57]
• —— poor material of, [122]
• —— potential truth in, [121]
• —— right age for, [75]
• Father and Son, [102]
• Fear, appeals to, [51]
• Fénélon's Telemachus, [92]
• Festival Day, true spirit of, [200]-[3]
• Fiction, should be used, [109]
• Field, Eugene, [64], [69]
• Filial Piety, [203]-[6]
• Fleming, Marjorie, [53]
• Folk lore, tampering with, [76]
• Freeman, P., poems of, [55]
• Froebel, [59]
• Fun, coarse and exaggerated, [53]
• Gales, R. L., [101]
• Geography, dramatic possibilities of, [134]
• Gesture, use and abuse of, [35], [126]
• Glenconner, Lady, [187]
• Glover, Mrs. Arnold, [96]
• Golden Numbers, [71]
• Goschen, G., [65], [99]
• Gosse, E., [102]
• Gregory, Lady, [24]
• Grimm, [71]
• Groos, Karl, [105]
• Grotesque stories, an antidote to sentimentality, [78]
• Gunnar, Death of, [133]
• Hafiz the Stone-cutter, [170]-[2]
• Harris, Muriel, [56]
• Harrison, Frederic, [61]
• Hearn, Lafcadio, [31]
• Hector and Andromache, [66]
• Helen and Paris, [8]
• Heroes of Asgaard, [65]
• History and fiction, [109], [225]
• Honey Bee and other Stories, [57]
• Human interest, [93]
• Humour, development slow, [136]
• —— educational value of, [135]
• —— to encourage the sense of, [4], [73], [224]
• Hushaby Lady, [69]
• Hysteria, how encouraged, [60]
• Ice Maiden, [80]
• Ideal, translated into action, [4], [110]
• Illustration of stories, [131]
• Imagination, appeal by, [20]
• —— cultivation of, [4], [65], [103]
• —— Queyrat on, [118]
• —— Ribot on, [105]
• Indian Stories, [81], [91], [218]
• Infant piety, tales of, [55]
• Irish peasants as an audience, [10]
• Jack and the Beanstalk, [74], [121]
• Jacob, More English tales, [72]
• James, Henry, [27]
• James, William, [84]
• Janeway, Mrs., [51]
• Jesper and the Hares, [72]
• John and the Pig, [106]
• Keatinge, on Suggestion, [34]
• Kimmins, Dr., [130]
• Kinematograph, dramatic value of, [18], [48]
• King Peter, [92]
• Kinship with animals, to be encouraged, [80]
• Ker, Professor, [157]
• Kipling, Rudyard, [38], [39], [40], [41], [123], [127]
• Ladd's Psychology, [108]
• Lang, Andrew, [72], [73], [85], [230]
• Laocoon group, [55]
• Lear's Book of Nonsense, [79]
• Legends, Myths and Fairy tales, [219], [227]
• Life, stories of saving, [86]
• Little Citizens of other Lands, [103]
• Little Cousin Series, [214]
• Little Red Riding Hood, [76]
• Lion and Hare, [126]
• Loti, [114]
• Magnanimity, to be encouraged, [107]
• Mahomet, advice to teachers, [68]
• McKracken, Mrs. E., [45]
• Macleod, Fiona, [81]
• Marsh King's Daughter, [62]
• Mechanical devices for attracting attention, [32]
• Memory or improvisation, [123]
• Memory, the effect of, [63]
• Mentius, Chinese philosopher, [95]
• Metempsychosis, [81]
• Milking time, [68]
• Mill on the Floss, [83]
• Milton, [69]
• Mimicry, use of, [36]
• Ministering Children, [44]
• Miscellaneous Stories, [222], [228]
• Modern Stories, List of, [233]
• Montessori, on Silence, [131]
• Moore Smith, C. G., [57]
• Moral Instruction of Children, [81]
• Moral tales, [55]
• Morley, Henry, [58]
• Morley, Lord, on direct moral teaching, [128]
• Mother Play, [59]
• Moulton, Professor, [67]
• Napoleon, [85], [134]
• Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, [67]
• Necker de Saussure, Mme., [20]
• Nightingale, the, [138]-[150]
• Njal, Burning of, [85], [133]
• Nonsense, a plea for, [79]
• Norse Stories, [210]
• Nursery Rhymes, [101]
• Old people, as an audience, [24]
• Openings, vivid, [39], [40]
• Orpheus and Eurydice, [66]
• Our Lady's Tumbler, [123]
• Over dramatic stimulation, [48]
• Over-elaboration, [21]
• Over explanation, danger of, [23]
• Over-illustration, danger of, [17]
• Pandora, story of, [123]
• Pantomime, stories in, [18]
• Paris and Helen, [8]
• Pausing, the art of, [33]
• Piety Promoted, [57]
• Planting for Eternity, [115]
• Plato, on the End of Education, [91]
• Poetic element, children's unexpressed need, [135]
• Poetry and Life, [119]
• Poetry, effect of, [119]
• Poetry, value of, [69]
• Polish, importance of, [31]
• Poor Robin, [55]
• Priggishness, how to avoid, [51]
• Preparation for a story, [124]
• Princess and the Pea, [34], [156]-[7]
• Proud Cock, the, [178]-[180]
• Psyche, [120]
• Psychology, [108]
• Psychological novelist, [108]
• Pueblo tribe of Indians, [91]
• Puss in Boots, [108]
• Quebec and Téméraire, story of, [107]
• Questions, danger of, [13]
• Questions of teachers, [117]
• Questioning the audience, futility of, [130]
• Queyrat, [19], [23], [63], [106], [113], [118]
• Quintilian, on the use of the hands, [35]
• Reading matter for children, [211]
• Realism, excessive, [49]
• Repetition of story (by children) inadvisable, [130]
• Repetition of stories (by lecturers) recommended, [30], [62]
• Reproduction of stories, [112], [130]
• Resourcefulness, stories of, [71], [224]
• Ribot, on the imagination, [34], [105]
• Riley, Whitcomb, [100]
• Romance, Books of, [85], [221]
• Romance, good for children, [66]
• —— in the streets, [97]
• Rossetti, Christina, [68]
• Russell, J., [161]
• Russian myths and folk tales, [90]
• Saga, a, [160], [161]
• Saints, lives of, [225]
• St. Christopher, Legend of, [162]-[5]
• St. Francis and St. Clare, [66]
• Santa Claus, [122]
• Sarcasm, excess to be avoided, [44]
• Satire, excessive, to be deprecated, [44]
• Saturation, necessity of, [27]
• Scott, Dr., [71]
• Scudder, H., [111], [124]
• Sensationalism, danger of, [47]
• Sentimentality, [45]
• Shakespeare, [69], [96]
• Shepherd, the Obstinate, [172]-[8]
• Sherwood, Mrs., [52]
• Side issues, danger of, [6]
• Sidney, Sir Philip, [85], [91], [110]
• Siegfried and Brunhild, [66]
• Silence, Montessori on, [131]
• Simplicity, the keynote of story-telling, [2]
• Smith, Mrs. R. B., [14]
• Smith, N. A., [71]
• Snake story, a, [195]-[200]
• Snegourka, [180]-[2]
• Snow Child, the, [180]-[2]
• Somerset, Lady H., [110]
• Song and Story, [70]
• Song of Roland, [85]
• Souvenirs du Peuple, [25]
• Standard, must be high, [23]
• Sterne, [44]
• Stephens, James, [47]
• Stevenson, R. L., [104], [105], [123]
• Stories, in full, [138]
• —— to counteract influence of the streets, [93]
• —— outside children's experience, futility of, [48]
• Story telling in school and home, [210]
• Story Telling Magazine, [231]
• Sturla, story of, [157]-[160]
• Suggestion, [32], [34], [59]
• Sully, on children, [30], [90]
• Sunday books, [56]
• Swineherd, the, [150]-[156]
• Sympathy for foreigners, [103]
• Syrett, N., [118]
• Talking over a story, [129]
• Talking Thrush, the, [200]
• Talks to teachers, [85]
• Teachers of Young Children, books for, [234]
• Telemachus, [92]
• Tell, Wilhelm, [30]
• Tennant, Pamela, [187]
• Thackeray, [135]
• Thomas, W. Jenkyn, [169]
• Three Bears, [121]
• Through the Looking Glass, [90]
• Tiger, Jackal and Brahman, [11]
• Time, spent on story telling, [117]
• Tin Soldier, the, [63], [64], [124], [129]
• Top and Ball, [125]
• To your good health, [172]-[8]
• Treasure of the Wise Man, [100]
• Troy, tale of, [8]
• Truth, many-sided, [122]
• Truth of Stories, [118]
• Truth and Falsehood, how to distinguish, [106]
• Two Frogs, the, [193]-[5]
• Ulysses, [7], [93]
• Unfamiliar words, danger of, [10]
• United States, [31], [33], [49]
• Unsuitable material for stories, [42]
• Unusual element, desirable, [64]
• Unwholesome Extravagance, [53]
• Utilitarian stories, danger of, [99]
• Very Short Stories, [64]
• Virginibus Puerisque, [104]
• Voice, dramatic power of, [17]
• Wallas, K., [71]
• Warlike Excitement, not essential, [87]
• Water Nixie, the, [183]-[7]
• Wide, Wide World, [44]
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas, [48], [71]
• Wise Old Shepherd, the, [195]-[200]
• Wolf and Kids, [78]
• Yonge, Miss, [54]
• Youngest Child, success of, [226]

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