The Art of Story-Telling · Part XVI

FOR TEACHERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.

Le Courage. L'Ecole. Le Jour de Catherine. Jacqueline et Mirant. (From Nos Enfants. Anatole France. 12810. dd. 72. Hachette.) The Giant and the Jackstraw. By David Starr Jordan. (From Una and the Knights. For very small children.) The Musician. Legend of the Christmas Rose. (From The Girl from the Marsh Croft. Selma Lagerlöf. 12581. p. 99.) Both these should be shortened and adapted for narration.

I trust that the titles of my stories in this Section may not be misleading. Under the titles of “Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales,” I have included many which contain valuable ethical teaching, deep philosophy and stimulating examples for conduct in life. I regret that I have not been able to furnish in my own list many of the stories I consider good for narration, but the difficulty of obtaining permission has deterred me from further efforts in this direction. I hope, however, that teachers and students will look up the book containing these stories.

FOOTNOTES:

[55] Both books dealing with insect life.

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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