{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_63669/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_63669","id":"gutenberg_63669","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63669","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Plays/Films/Dramas","Category: Teaching & Education","Storytelling -- Periodicals"],"text":"Transcriber\u2019s Notes\n\nObvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations\nin hyphenation and all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.\n\nItalics are represented thus _italic_, and bold thus =bold=.\n\n\n\n\n                         VOL. I         NO. 1\n\n                                  THE\n                                 STORY\n                               TELLERS\u2019\n                               MAGAZINE\n\n                                 JUNE\n\n                            [Illustration]\n\n                           PVBLISHED BY THE\n                             STORYTELLERS\n                         COMPANY      NEW YORK\n\n\n\n\n                      THE STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE\n\n                       RICHARD T. WYCHE, Editor\n\n\n                               CONTENTS                            PAGE\n\n  NIMMY NIMMY NOT. Retold                                              1\n  by Emelyn Newcombe Partridge and George Everett Partridge, Ph.D.\n\n  THE TAILEYPO                                                         7\n  by Richard T. Wyche\n\n  JOHNNY CAKE. Retold                                                 10\n  by Frank E. Spaulding and Catherine T. Bryce\n\n  THE TWELVE MONTHS. Retold                                           13\n  by R. T. Wyche\n\n  STORY TELLING AND EDUCATION                                         19\n  by George Everett Partridge, Ph.D.\n\n  STORY TELLING IN BOSTON                                             24\n  by Mary W. Cronan\n\n  THE STONE LION. Retold                                              26\n  by Emelyn Newcombe Partridge and George Everett Partridge, Ph.D.\n\n  THE OYSTER AND ITS CLAIMANTS                                        29\n  from La Fontaine\u2019s \u00c6sop\u2019s Fables\n\n  THE PSYCHO-THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF STORY TELLING                       30\n  by Frances E. Foote\n\n  STORY TELLING FOR MOTHERS                                           32\n\n  THE BEOWULF CLUB OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY                        34\n  by John Harrington Cox\n\n  HOW TO ORGANIZE A STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE                             35\n\n  WHAT THE LEAGUES ARE DOING                                          36\n\n  EDITORIAL                                                           37\n\n  THE MOTHER\u2014THE CHILD\u2014THE STORY                                    39\n\n  THE GREAT EPICS\u2014STORY HOUR CYCLE                                   40\n\n  SOME RECENT BOOKS                                                   42\n\n  BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                        44\n\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUES                                              51\n\n  BUSINESS DEPARTMENT                                                 55\n\n\n                           Published Monthly\n                  at 27 West 23d St., New York, N.\u202fY.\n\n                                  BY\n                         THE STORYTELLERS\u2019 CO.\n\nR. T. WYCHE, _Pres._ E. C. DE VILLAVERDE, _Sec\u2019y_ H. D. NEWSON, _Treas._\n                  Address, 27 West 23d Street, N.\u202fY.\n\n         Subscription $1.00 per Year        10 cents the Copy\n              _Copyright 1913, by The Storytellers\u2019 Co._\n\n\n[Illustration: And by the vision splendid is on his way attended\n               WORDSWORTH]\n\n\n\n\n                      THE STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE\n\n      VOL. I         \u2234         JUNE, 1913        \u2234         NO. 1\n\n\n                            Nimmy Nimmy Not\n\n                         An English Fairy-tale\n\n      Retold from _English Folk and Fairy Tales_\u2014Camelot Series\n\n This story is built upon the lines of a perfect dramatic unit, as set\n forth by Freytag in his \u201cTechnik des Dramas\u201d\u2014(1) _Exposition._ Facts\n preceding the principal interest, i. e. the girl and her mother,\n etc. (2) _Ascending Action._ The coming of the king. The task. The\n development of the plot. (3) _The Climax._ This is the revelation of\n the name by the king, followed by the _Supreme Moment_ which was the\n revelation of the proper name to Nimmy Nimmy Not. (4) _Descending\n Action._ The disposal of the villain through his \u201cshrivelling up\u201d and\n \u201cflying away.\u201d (5) _Conclusion._ \u201cLiving happy ever after.\u201d\n\n Joseph Jacobs in his \u201cEnglish Fairy Stories\u201d gives us the following\n information in regard to the story: \u201cUnearthed by Mr. E. Clodd,\n from the Suffolk Notes and Queries of the _Ipswitch Journal_, and\n re-printed by him in _Folk-Lore Journal_ vii. 138-43. It has its\n parallels in Devonshire\u2019s as \u201cDuffy and the Devil,\u201d in Hunt\u2019s\n _Romances and Drolls of the West of England_, 239-47; in Scotland two\n variants are given by Chambers, \u201cIn _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_.\u201d It\n is clearly the same as Grimm\u2019s \u201cRumpelstiltskin\u201d (No. 14).\n\n Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a \u201csurvival\u201d\n of the superstition that to know a man\u2019s name gives you power over\n him, for which reason savages object to tell their names. It may be\n necessary\u2014to explain to the little one, that Tom Tit can only be\n referred to as \u201cThat\u201d because his name is not known until the end.\n\n The version of the story here given is republished by permission from\n \u201cStory Telling in School and Home,\u201d by Evelyn Newcombe Partridge and\n George Everett Partridge, Ph. D., New York. Sturgis & Walton Co.\n\n The illustrations for the story are reproduced from \u201cEnglish Fairy\n Stories,\u201d through the courtesy of the author Joseph Jacobs and the\n publishers Messrs. G. P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, New York.\n\n\nOnce upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when\nshe took them from the oven, she found that they had baked so long the\ncrusts were too hard to eat. So she said to her daughter:\n\n\u201cPut you them there pies on the shelf, and by and by they\u2019ll come\nagain.\u201d She meant, you know, the crust would get soft.\n\nThe girl, she took the pies into the pantry, and she put them upon the\nshelf in a long even row. She looked at them, and she thought how good\nthey would taste.\n\n\u201cWell, if them there pies\u2019ll come again,\u201d she said to herself, \u201cI may\nas well eat them now.\u201d\n\nSo she _ate them all, first and last_!\n\nCome supper time, the woman said:\n\n\u201cGo you and get one of them there pies, I dare say they\u2019ve come again\nby this time.\u201d\n\nThe daughter she went into the pantry, and she looked at the shelf.\nThere were the five pie plates _just as she had left them,\u2014empty_! So\nshe went back to her mother and she said:\n\n\u201cNoo, they ain\u2019t come again.\u201d\n\n\u201cNot one of them?\u201d said the mother.\n\n\u201cNoo, not one of them,\u201d says she.\n\n\u201cWell, come again or not come again, I\u2019ll have one for my supper.\u201d And\nthe old woman went toward the pantry.\n\n\u201cBut you can\u2019t have one, if they ain\u2019t come again, mother.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut I can,\u201d the woman declared. \u201cI\u2019ll have the best one for my supper.\u201d\n\n\u201cBest or worst,\u201d the daughter said, \u201c_I\u2019ve ate them all!_ And you can\u2019t\nhave one \u2019til they\u2019ve come again!\u201d\n\nWell, the woman, she was so astonished she forgot all about supper. She\ncarried her spinning to the doorway, and as she span, she sang a little\nsong about her daughter:\n\n    \u201cMy daughter has ate five, _five_ pies today,\n    My daughter has ate five, _five_ pies today!\u201d\n\nNow the king was coming down the road, and he heard the woman singing,\nbut he could not hear the words. So he stopped in front of the door and\nsaid:\n\n\u201cMy good woman, what were you singing?\u201d\n\nNow the old woman did not want anyone to know what a greedy daughter\nshe had; so she sang instead of that,\n\n    \u201cMy daughter has spun five, _five skeins_ today.\u201d\n\n\u201cLand sakes alive!\u201d said the king, \u201cI never heard tell of anyone\u2019s\ndoing that. Now look you here, my good woman. I _want a wife_, and I\u2019ll\nmarry your daughter. But look you here. For eleven months of the year\nshe shall have all the victuals she wants to eat, and all the clothes\nshe wants to wear, and all the company she likes to keep. _But the\ntwelfth month, she must spin five skeins every day, or off\u2019ll go her\nhead!_\u201d\n\n\u201cAll right,\u201d says the woman, for she thought:\n\n\u201cWhat a grand marriage this will be. And as for them there five skeins,\nby that time he\u2019ll forget all about them.\u201d\n\nSo they were married. And for eleven months the girl had all the\nvictuals she wanted to eat, and she had all the clothes she wanted to\nget, and she had all the company she liked to keep. But sometimes she\nfelt a little uneasy. _Sometimes_ she thought of that spinning she must\ndo.\n\nThe king, he never said one word about the five skeins, so as the\neleven months had nearly passed, the girl thought that he had forgotten\nall about it.\n\nBut one day, it was the _last day of the eleventh month_! The king came\nto her, and he took her into a little room she had never seen before.\nThere was nothing in it but a spinning wheel and a little chair and a\nsmall bare table.\n\n\u201cHere, my girl,\u201d says he, \u201chere I\u2019ll put you tomorrow. And I\u2019ll lock\nthe door. And here you must stay all day long. At night I\u2019ll come, and\nif you\u2019ve not spun the five skeins, _off\u2019ll go your head_!\u201d And away he\nwent about his business.\n\nWell, the girl was that frightened! She had always been such a gatless\ncreature that _she didn\u2019t even know how to spin_! She sat down on a\nstool and she began to cry. _How she did cry!_\n\n[Illustration: The little black thing]\n\nHowever, _all of a sudden_ she heard a knocking, knocking, low down at\nthe door. She got up and she opened the door. _There stood a little\nblack thing_, WITH A LONG BLACK TAIL. And That looked up at her out of\nthe corner of That\u2019s eyes, and That says:\n\n\u201cWhat are you crying for?\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat\u2019s that to you?\u201d says she.\n\n\u201cNever you mind, but tell me what you are crying for. Perhaps I can\nhelp you,\u201d the little black thing told her.\n\n\u201cWell, it can\u2019t do any harm, if it doesn\u2019t do any good,\u201d she thought.\nSo she told him all about the five pies, and the five skeins and\neverything.\n\n\u201cThis is what I\u2019ll do,\u201d says that little black thing, twirling his BIG\nBLACK TAIL. \u201cI\u2019ll come to your window every morning and get the flax,\nand at night I\u2019ll bring it home all spun.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat\u2019s your pay?\u201d says she.\n\n_That_ looked at her again out of the corner of _That\u2019s_ eyes. \u201cI\u2019ll\ngive you three guesses every night to guess my name, and if you haven\u2019t\nguessed it by the last night, _you shall be_ MINE!\u201d\n\nThe girl thought that she would be sure to guess it before the month\nwas up, so she said:\n\n\u201cAll right.\u201d\n\n\u201cAll right,\u201d That says, and _how That did twirl That\u2019s tail_!\n\nWell, the next day, the king took her into the room, and there was the\nflax, and the day\u2019s supply of victuals.\n\n\u201cNow, my dear,\u201d says he, \u201cif that ain\u2019t spun by night, _off\u2019ll go your\nhead_.\u201d Then he went out and locked the door behind him.\n\nThe king had no sooner gone, than a _knock,\u2014knock_ came at the window.\nThere was the little black thing sitting on the window ledge. She gave\nhim the flax and away he flew.\n\nWell, at evening, the knocking came again at the window. The girl\nopened it, and there stood the little black thing with the flax on his\narm, all beautifully spun.\n\n\u201cHere it is,\u201d he said, as he gave it to her. \u201cNow, what\u2019s my name?\u201d\n\n\u201cIs that Bill?\u201d says she.\n\n\u201cNoo, that ain\u2019t,\u201d says he, and he twirled his tail.\n\n\u201cIs that Ned, then?\u201d\n\n\u201cNoo, that ain\u2019t.\u201d\n\n\u201cWell, is that Mark, then?\u201d she asked.\n\n\u201cNoo.\u201d And That twirled That\u2019s tail harder and away That flew.\n\nWhen the king came in, there were the skeins beautifully spun.\n\n\u201cWell, I see, my dear, that you won\u2019t lose your head tonight.\u201d And he\nwent away and left her locked in the room.\n\nSo every day the flax and the food were brought to the girl. And every\nmorning the little black imp would knock at the window and carry away\nthe flax, and every night it would bring back the flax spun. And every\nnight the girl would try the three times to guess the imp\u2019s name, but\nshe could never guess the right one.\n\nAt last, the last day had come. And that night when the imp brought\nback the skeins, he said:\n\n\u201cWhat, ain\u2019t you guessed my name yet?\u201d\n\n\u201cIs that Nicodemas?\u201d says she.\n\n\u201cNoo, that ain\u2019t,\u201d That says.\n\n\u201cIs that Samuel?\u201d\n\n\u201cNoo, not that neither.\u201d Then That looked at her with That\u2019s eyes _like\ncoals of fire_, and That says:\n\n\u201cWoman, there\u2019s only _tomorrow night_, and THEN YOU\u2019LL BE MINE!\u201d And\naway That flew.\n\nWell, the girl she felt that bad. However, she heard the king coming\nalong the passage. In he came, and when he saw the five skeins, he said:\n\n\u201cMy dear, I don\u2019t see but you\u2019ll have your skeins ready tomorrow night\nas well, so I reckon I shall not have to kill you, and I\u2019ll have supper\nin here tonight.\u201d\n\nSo they brought the supper in, and the two sat down to the table.\n\nWell, he had eaten but a mouthful, when he began to laugh.\n\n\u201cWhat are you laughing at?\u201d the girl asked him.\n\n\u201cWell, today when I was out in the forest, I saw the funniest sight....\nI was in a strange part where I had never been before. And I saw an\nold chalk pit.... And I heard the queerest humming and humming coming\nfrom the pit. So I got off my hobby and crept over to the pit without\nmaking a bit of a sound. And there I saw the strangest looking little\nblack thing with a long, black tail. And That was sitting at a little\nspinning wheel, and That was spinning so fast that I could scarcely see\nthe wheel. And while That span, That sang,\n\n    \u201cNimmy, nimmy not,\n    My name is Tom Tit Tot.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnd That kept singing it over again and again.\u201d\n\nWhen the girl heard this, she was so happy that she could almost have\n_jumped out of her skin for joy_, but she didn\u2019t say a word.\n\nNext day, that little black thing looked _so maliceful_! And when night\ncame she heard the knock at the window, she opened it, and the little\nblack thing jumped into the room. He was grinning from ear to ear, and\nO! That\u2019s tail was twirling round so fast!\n\n\u201cWhat\u2019s my name?\u201d That said, as That gave her the skeins.\n\n\u201cIs that Solomon?\u201d said the girl, pretending to be afraid.\n\n\u201cNoo, that ain\u2019t,\u201d That said, and That came further into the room.\n\n\u201cWell, is that Zebedee?\u201d says she again.\n\n\u201cNoo, that ain\u2019t.\u201d And then That laughed, and twirled That\u2019s tail until\nyou could hardly see That.\n\n\u201cTake time, woman! The next guess AND YOU ARE MINE!\u201d And That stretched\nout That\u2019s black hands at her.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nWell, she moved back a step or two, and she looked at that little black\nthing, and then she laughed out, and says she, pointing her finger at\nit,\n\n    \u201cNimmy, nimmy not,\n    Your name is Tom Tit Tot.\u201d\n\nWhen that black impet heard her, That _shriveled right up_, and away\nThat flew and was never heard of again.\n\nAnd the girl lived happily ever after, and the king never again asked\nher to do any more spinning.\n\n\n\n\n                             The Taileypo\n\n                         _BY RICHARD T. WYCHE_\n\n\n The Taileypo story was told to me by the Rev. George Washington Neale,\n a student friend of mine, years ago, in Chicago University. Mr. Neale\n said that he had heard the story many times in his childhood, from the\n lips of the old negro story tellers in Tennessee. This story has its\n variant in the story of \u201cThe Golden Arm,\u201d which was written by Mark\n Twain, Joseph Jacobs and also in a collection by S. Baring-Gould.\n\n It is a story that loses much in the writing, as it is impossible to\n give voice modulation in cold print. After hearing Mr. Neale tell it\n a number of years ago, in Chicago, I took it up and began to tell it,\n and found many people in the South, who had heard the old negroes tell\n it.\n\n In January 1905, I was in Atlanta, Ga., and went with Joel Chandler\n Harris, the author of \u201cUncle Remus,\u201d to the West End School, where I\n told a number of Uncle Remus stories to the children. Beginning in the\n first grade, where Mr. Harris\u2019s little grandson was then a pupil and\n ending in the higher grades, where I told The Taileypo story. When the\n story was done, Mr. Harris said it was one of the best negro stories\n he had heard, but that I did not have all of the story. There was, he\n said, another piece of the story that should be linked with this to\n make it complete, and I said to Mr. Harris: \u201cFind the other piece, and\n write the story complete.\u201d\n\n One year after that Harris published the story in the Metropolitan\n Magazine, New York, January 1906. Harris gave it a setting and\n artistic atmosphere, bringing in Brer\u2019 Rabbit and Mister Man. He put\n it in the mouth of Uncle Remus, and had the old negro, as in his other\n books, tell the story to the little boy. That was a demonstration to\n me as to how Harris took many of the negro stories in the raw, and\n passing them through the magic of his imagination made them into art.\n\n We are frequently puzzled to find humorous stories for the boys and\n girls,\u2014they must have humor. This story has universally amused them\n wherever it has been told. In it reverberates the barbaric ages from\n whence the race came, and it is a spontaneous expression of life\n from the primitive standpoint. To find a story that the boys and\n girls think humorous, and to laugh together with them, is decidedly\n refreshing and healthful to the teacher, who has dwelt so much on\n grammatical forms which are not fundamental in a child\u2019s interest. As\n Joseph Jacobs, says, \u201cThe children know the happenings in the story\n are make-believe just as much as the spectators of a tragedy. Every\n one who has enjoyed the blessing of a romantic imagination has been\n trained upon such tales of wonder.\u201d\n\n However, if one\u2019s imagination and sense of humor is undeveloped, and\n the story is taken seriously rather than humorously, it loses its\n value and should not be told. For that reason the story teller or\n teacher must study his auditors.\n\n As Uncle Remus would say, I will \u201c\u2019gin it out to you as it was \u2019gunt\n to me.\u201d\n\n\nIn the mountains of Tennessee, \u2019way back in de big woods, lived onct a\nman, in a house all by his self. This man had one room to his house,\nand dat room was his kitchen.\n\nOne night, when de man was sleepin on his bed, he heerd sup\u2019ner roun\nde fire place snifflin, lickin de pots, de fryinpans, and de skillets,\ncar\u2019en on and g\u2019wyin on. De man struk a light, and dar he see de\ncurioses lookin varmint what you ever laid eyes on, a varmint wid a\ngreat, long tail. No sooner de man see de varmint dan he retched for\nhis hatchet. He made one sweep at him, and clipped his tail squar off\nbehime. De varmint he run out thu de cracks er de logs and tuk to de\nwoods.\n\nDe man, fool-lik, took an cooked de tail, et it,\u2014and den he went to\nbed. \u2019Way long in de night, suppen cum and got up over de man\u2019s do, and\nscratched and sed:\n\n\u201cTaileypo, I want\u2019s my ta-a-a-a-a-a-iley-po.\u201d\n\nDe man had three dogs: one name Uno, and one Ino, and one\nCumticocalico. De man call his dogs, \u201cYer! Yer! Yer!\u201d\n\nDe dogs dey cum bilin out frum under de house. De varmint he run down\nside de house and jumped. De dogs snapped at him, but he got away, and\ndey run\u2019ed him and run\u2019ed him \u2019way back in de big woods. De man he tuk,\nhe did and went back to bed, and went to sleep.\n\nBut \u2019way long in de night, de thing cum and got up in de crac\u2019 er de\nman\u2019s do and sed:\n\n\u201cTaileypo, you know,\u2014I know,\u2014all I want\u2019s my Ta-a-a-a-a-a-iley-po.\u201d\n\nDe man call his dogs, \u201cYer! Yer! Yer!\u201d\n\nUno, Ino and Cumticocalico cum abustin roun de cordner of de house. De\nvarmint jumped down from de side of de house and tuk to de woods. De\ndogs ketch him at de gate,\u2014knock down de gate an tore down de fence.\nHe got away, but dey jus\u2019 natchally tore up de earth runnin him \u2019way\nfrum dar. De man tuk, he did and went back to bed and went to sleep.\n\n\u2019Way long in de night, jus befo day, de man he heard sup\u2019ner down de\nhill, sayin:\n\n\u201cUno, Ino, all I want\u2019s my Ta-a-a-a-a-a-iley-po.\u201d\n\nBy and by he heard him in de crack up over de do, sayin:\n\n\u201cTaileypo, I want\u2019s my Ta-a-a-a-a-a-iley-po.\u201d\n\nDe man call de dogs, \u201cYer! Yer! Yer!\u201d\n\nDe dogs didn\u2019t cum: de Taileypo dun car\u2019ed em off sumeres in de woods,\nlost em or kil\u2019t em.\n\nArter a while\u2014de Taileypo stop. Everything was still. De man drapped\nback on his pillow, but fo long he feel supen and heard supen scratchin\nand clawin at de foot of de bed. Supen ketch holt er de kivers, and\nclawed lak a cat a\u2019climin up. De man rais his haid up and look, and\nhe see two bright eyes, lak balls er fire, lookin right pine blank at\nhim frum de foot er de bed. De varmint crawl up nigher and nigher on\nde man. He can see his little short \u2019years by de light er his eyes. De\nvarmint say right easy to de man again:\n\n\u201cTaileypo\u2014I want my te-e-e-e-e-e-eley-po!\u201d\n\nDe man try to holler. He opens his mouf, but lak a man in his sleep, he\nca\u2019nt mak a soun\u2019. De varmint crawl right up on top er de man and say\nright easy again: \u201cTaileypo.\u201d\n\n\u201cI want\u2019s my te-e-e-e-e-e-eley-po!\u201d\n\nDe man\u2019s voice cum back to him, and he say:\n\n\u201cI aint got your taileypo.\u201d\n\nDe varmint says, \u201cYes, you is.\u201d\n\nHe jumped on de man and scratch him all to pieces, and got his taileypo.\n\nAll dat\u2019s lef of de man\u2019s house now is de rude heart-stone, and dey say\ndat when de moon rises roun and red and shines down dat lonely hollow,\nand de win\u2019 blow, dat you can hear a voice in de win\u2019 day say:\n\n\u201cTail-a-a-a-a-a-e-eley-po-o-o-o!\u201d and die in de distance.\n\n\n\n\n                           Once Upon a Time\n\n\nEvery now and then the postman leaves at the office of THE EVENING SUN\na message that brims over with pleasure for the recipient. Among such\ncommunications we gratefully acknowledge the following, addressed to us\nby a young friend in the South:\n\n  \u201cDURHAM N.\u202fC. March 29.\n\n \u201dDEAR EDITOR\u2014I like the Once upon a time stories very much pleas make\n them a little longer Father reads them to me after Supper. do you tell\n them to your little boy or girl with love Lucy Glasson Mary likes them\n to\u201d\n\nTime was, LUCY, when we told some of these stories to our little boy\nand girl at bedtime, and now, years afterwards, we are glad to think\nthat we can tell them over to thousands of other people\u2019s little boys\nand girls. If only they will think of us occasionally as LUCY GLASSON\ndoes, \u201cwith love,\u201d how rich will be our reward. _N.Y. Evening Sun._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNorth Carolina has recently organized a Folk-Lore Society, which will\nbe a branch of the National Folk-Lore Society.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: Domestic scene]\n\n\n                              Johnny Cake\n\n\n Mr. Joseph Jacobs publishes this story in his Collection of\n \u201cEnglish Fairy Tales.\u201d He gives as his source \u201c_American Journal of\n Folk-Lore_,\u201d ii. 60. Another variant of this story is found in \u201cThe\n Gingerbread Boy,\u201d in _St. Nicholas_, May, 1875. Chambers gives two\n versions of the same story, under the title \u201cThe Wee Bunnock,\u201d the\n first of which is one of the most dramatic and humorous of folk tales.\n Unfortunately the Scotticisms are so frequent as to render the Droll\n practically untranslatable. \u201cThe Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow\u201d in _Uncle\n Remus_ is similar to that of Johnny Cake.\n\n The version herewith is taken from the Aldine Fourth Reader, by Frank\n E. Spaulding and Catherine T. Bryce, through the courtesy of the\n publishers, Newson & Company, New York.\n\n\nOnce upon a time there was an old man, and an old woman, and a little\nboy. One morning the old woman made a Johnny Cake, and put it into the\noven to bake.\n\nThen she said to the little boy: \u201cYou watch Johnny Cake while your\nfather and I go out to work in the garden. Don\u2019t let it burn.\u201d\n\nThe little boy soon got tired watching the oven, and went to look out\nof the window. All of a sudden he heard a noise back of him. He looked\naround quickly. The oven door popped open. Out jumped Johnny Cake. Away\nhe went rolling along, end over end, through the open door, down the\nsteps, and out into the road, long before the little boy could catch\nhim.\n\n\u201cMother! Father! Johnny Cake\u2019s running away!\u201d cried the little boy, and\ndown the street he ran after Johnny Cake.\n\n\n[Illustration:woman running]\n\nHis father and mother threw down their hoes and gave chase too. But\nJohnny Cake outran all three a long way, and was soon out of sight. The\nold man, the old woman, and the little boy, quite out of breath, sat\ndown by the roadside to rest.\n\nOn ran Johnny Cake. By and by he came to two well diggers, who looked\nup from their work and called out, \u201cWhere are you going Johnny?\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve outrun an old man, an old woman, and a little boy, and I can\noutrun you, too-o-o!\u201d\n\n\u201cYou can, can you? We\u2019ll see about that!\u201d\n\nThey threw down their spades and ran after him. But Johnny Cake\noutstripped them also. Seeing they could never catch him, they gave up.\n\nOn ran Johnny Cake. By and by he came to a bear.\n\n\u201cWhere are you going Johnny?\u201d growled the bear.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve outrun an old man, an old woman, a little boy, and two well\ndiggers, and I can outrun you, too-o-o!\u201d\n\n\u201cYou can, can you?\u201d growled the bear; \u201cwe\u2019ll see about that!\u201d\n\n[Illustration: Boy running]\n\nAnd he rushed thump, thump, after Johnny Cake, who never stopped to\nlook behind him. Before long the bear was left far behind, so at last,\nbreathless and panting, he stretched himself out by the roadside to\nrest.\n\nOn ran Johnny Cake. By and by he came to a wolf. \u201cWhere are you going,\nJohnny Cake?\u201d yelped the wolf.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve outrun an old man, an old woman, a little boy, two well diggers,\nand a bear, and I can outrun you, too-o-o!\u201d\n\n\u201cYou can, can you?\u201d snarled the wolf; \u201cwe\u2019ll see about that!\u201d\n\nAnd he set into a gallop after Johnny Cake, who went on so fast that\nthe wolf saw there was no hope of overtaking him, and he, too, lay down\nto rest.\n\nOn ran Johnny Cake. By and by he came to a fox that lay quietly in a\ncorner of the fence.\n\n\u201cWhere are you going, Johnny Cake?\u201d called the fox, in a sharp voice,\nbut without getting up.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve outrun an old man, an old woman, a little boy, two well diggers,\na bear, and a wolf, and I can outrun you, too-o-o!\u201d\n\n\u201cI can\u2019t quite hear you, Johnny Cake; won\u2019t you come a little closer?\u201d\nsaid the fox.\n\nJohnny Cake went a little nearer to the fox and called out in a very\nloud voice:\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve outrun an old man, an old woman, a little boy, two well diggers,\na bear, and a wolf, and I can outrun you, too-o-o!\u201d\n\n\u201cCan\u2019t quite hear you; won\u2019t you come a little closer?\u201d said the fox,\nin a feeble voice, as he put one paw behind his ear.\n\n[Illustration: Satisfied fox]\n\nJohnny Cake came up quite close, and leaning towards the fox, screamed\nout, \u201cI\u2019ve outrun an old man, an old woman, a little boy, two well\ndiggers, a bear, and a wolf, and I can outrun you, too-o-o!\u201d\n\n\u201cYou can, can you?\u201d yelped the fox, and he snapped up Johnny Cake in a\ntwinkling.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  The\n  Twelve\n  Months\n\n  An Oral Re-telling\n  _of a_\n  BOHEMIAN FAIRY STORY\n  _by_\n  R. T. WYCHE]\n\n\nIn the Bohemian land there lived a woman, who had one daughter named\nKatinka, and a stepdaughter named Dobrunka. The woman, naturally,\nloved her own daughter more than she did her stepdaughter, but her own\nchild was not as fair nor had she as pleasing a disposition as had the\nstepdaughter Dobrunka.\n\nThis displeased the woman so that she made Dobrunka, the stepdaughter,\ndo all the housework, the cooking and the churning, whereas, her own\ndaughter, Katinka, she dressed in fine clothes and let her live in\nidleness. And more than that\u2014she frequently allowed Katinka to order\nDobrunka around the house as if she were a servant. Dobrunka was always\npleasing in countenance and in spirit, and the work she did made her\nstrong and wholesome, whereas the idleness in which Katinka lived made\nher very disagreeable.\n\nOne day, Katinka came to Dobrunka, and said: \u201cDobrunka, I want some\nviolets; go out into the fields or the forest and find me some.\u201d\n\nDobrunka said, \u201cWhy Katinka, that is a strange request. This is not the\ntime for violets; it is mid-winter.\u201d\n\nWhereupon Katinka grew very angry and said: \u201cGo, do as I say and bring\nme some violets, or I shall beat you to a jelly.\u201d With that Katinka\npushed her out of the door and with the help of her mother barred the\ndoor behind her.\n\nNow, it was mid-winter and snow was upon the ground, and Dobrunka\nstarted through the forest not knowing what to do. As she walked along\nthe forest, she saw on a hillside a fire burning. Soon she came to the\nfire, and there sat twelve old men with long grey beards. Their names\nwere the Twelve Months.\n\nIt was mid-winter, and January, of course, was presiding. As Dobrunka\ncame near to the group, not knowing what to do nor where to go, she\nstopped and began to cry.\n\nJanuary saw her, and said: \u201cChild, why do you stand there shivering and\ncrying, what is the matter?\u201d\n\nDobrunka said, \u201cMy mother and sister have driven me from the house, and\nthey said if I do not bring them some violets they will beat me to a\njelly.\u201d\n\nJanuary felt sorry for the girl, and he said: \u201cViolets do not belong to\nme; perhaps March can help you.\u201d\n\nNear by sat March, and he turned and saw the girl was troubled and he\npitied her.\n\nMarch stood up and waved his wand over the fire. The fire and the\ncircle of old men disappeared. March and the girl were standing in a\nfield and the air was fragrant with the breath of early Spring. March\nsaid, \u201cDaughter look down at your feet, and gather as many violets as\nyou wish!\u201d\n\nAs Dobrunka looked, all about her the field was purple with violets.\nShe stooped down and gathered a great handful of them.\n\nWhen she came back to the house and entered the door, Katinka saw her,\nand said, \u201cYes, I knew you could bring them, you were just pretending\nthat you could not.\u201d And, the perfume of the violets filled the whole\nhouse.\n\nSome days after Katinka came again to Dobrunka, and said:\n\n\u201cDobrunka, I want some strawberries, red and fresh from the fields.\u201d\n\n[Illustration: \u201cTHERE SAT TWELVE OLD MEN\u201d]\n\nDobrunka said, \u201cWhy sister, how strangely you talk. This is not the\ntime for strawberries; it is mid-winter. But Katinka said: \u201cObey me,\nyou said there were no violets the other day; you brought them,\u2014go,\nbring me some strawberries or I will beat you to a jelly.\u201d\n\nWith that she pushed her out of the door and the stepmother helped her\nbar the door.\n\nDobrunka then turned toward the forest again. Snow was still on the\nground. She walked along toward the mountain and saw again the fire\nburning in the distance. Soon she was standing where sat the twelve old\nmen in a circle.\n\nJanuary heard her footfall on the snow. Dobrunka stopped and began\ncrying. January said to her, \u201cChild, why did you come back, we gave you\nviolets and still you are back again?\u201d\n\nDobrunka said, \u201cMy mother and sister have driven me from my home, and\nthey say if I do not bring some strawberries they will beat me to a\njelly.\u201d\n\nJanuary said: \u201cI am sorry, but I cannot help you. Strawberries do not\nbelong to me; perhaps May can help you.\u201d\n\nMay was sitting across the circle. He looked at the girl standing there\nin trouble and he felt sorry for her. He stood up and waved his wand\nacross the fire. The old men disappeared and the fire. Dobrunka found\nherself standing in a field. It was a perfect day in May. Above her\nhead the sky was soft and blue; in every treetop sang the birds. May,\nthe old man, stood by her and said:\n\n\u201cLook child at the earth and see what you will find.\u201d\n\nDobrunka looked, and all about in great bunches grew strawberries,\npeeping like jewels from the green leaves.\n\nMay said to her, \u201cHelp yourself.\u201d And stooping down she gathered her\nhands full and then ran back to the house.\n\nWhen she entered the door, her sister seized the berries and ate them\nall up.\n\nA few days after that, Katinka came again to Dobrunka and said:\n\u201cDobrunka, I want some apples, fresh and ripe; go to the forest and\nfind me some.\u201d\n\nDobrunka said, \u201cWhy sister how strangely you talk,\u2014this is not the\ntime for apples; it is mid-winter.\u201d\n\nKatinka said, \u201cLazy girl, you said you could not find the violets, but\nyou did. You said there were no strawberries, but you brought them; go,\nand get me some apples or I will beat you to a jelly.\u201d\n\nWhereupon she pushed her from the door and the stepmother helped her to\nbar the door behind her.\n\nDobrunka turned again to the forest. She remembered where the old men\nlived on the mountainside and was soon standing near the circle. She\ncrept along very quietly. She did not wish to ask the old men to help\nher again because they already had been so kind to her, but January saw\nher standing with bowed head and shivering in the cold.\n\nHe said, \u201cChild, child, why did you come back here? We sent you away\nthe other day with your wants supplied.\u201d\n\nThen Dobrunka said: \u201cMy mother and sister have driven me from the\nhouse, they say if I do not bring them some apples they will beat me to\na jelly.\u201d\n\nJanuary said, \u201cApples do not belong to me; perhaps September can help\nyou.\u201d\n\n[Illustration: \u201cONE DAY THE HANDSOMEST YOUTH IN ALL THE WORLD CAME BY\u201d]\n\nOn the opposite side of the circle sat September, and he saw the girl\nstanding there, helpless. He felt sorry for her and standing up, he\nwaved his wand over the fire. The circle and the old men disappeared.\nThey were standing in a gently rolling field. The air was soft; the\ncrickets were chirping in the grass and there was in the sky a haze.\nAll around here stood great apple trees, loaded with fruit, red and\nyellow.\n\nSeptember said to the girl, \u201cHelp yourself.\u201d\n\nDobrunka picked up two of the largest apples, and then fled back to the\nhouse. When her sister saw her, she seized the apples, ate one and gave\nthe other to her mother. As soon as the apples were eaten,\u2014she came to\nDobronka, and said, \u201cWhy did you not bring more apples?\u201d\n\nThen Dobrunka told her about the old men and how they had helped her\neach time.\n\n\u201cThen,\u201d said Katinka, \u201cI know why you did not bring more, you ate them\nup on the way. Go back, and bring me more or I will beat you.\u201d\n\nDobrunka said, \u201cPlease do not send me again in the cold,\u201d and she\nbegged that she might stay in the house.\n\nThen Katinka said, \u201cI will go myself; if you could get them I can get\nthem from the old men.\u201d\n\nShe left the house and walked through the forest, and soon came in\nsight of the fire where sat the twelve old men. When she came near to\nthem, she said, \u201cHello there, old grey beards, I want some apples and\nwant them quick!\u201d\n\nJanuary was not accustomed to such words. He stood up and waved his\nwand over the fire and the fire and the circle were gone.\n\nKatinka found herself in a great forest. The wind was wailing through\nthe treetops, the snow was falling and it was bitter cold. Katinka did\nnot come back to the house. Her mother waited for her and by and by she\nstarted out in search of her, but she, too, was lost in the storm that\nraged, and never came back.\n\nDobrunka waited in the house. The night passed, and the next day and\nmany days. By and by the snow melted. The birds and flowers of Spring\ncame, but still the lost ones did not come back. Dobrunka had the house\nall alone. One day, the handsomest youth in all the world came by and\nmet Dobrunka. They became friends, and afterwards they were married and\nlived happily forever thereafter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n The Storytellers\u2019 League, of the State Normal School, of Dillon,\n Montana, have decided for the present year to devote their attention\n to a line of work, which so far as we know, has not yet been\n attempted by any other League. They will investigate the part that\n the supernatural, especially witchcraft, plays in literature, and\n will follow it not only through folk literature, but the following\n units: Goethe\u2019s Faust, Shakespeare\u2019s Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream, Macbeth,\n Konigs-kinder and Hansel and Gretel. The general theme will be broken\n from time to time by the introduction of stories suitable for a\n special session. At the last meeting in December the program will be\n given over to Christmas stories, tales and legends. Miss Florence\n Mayer is President of the League.\n\n\n\n\n                      STORY TELLING AND EDUCATION\n\n                 _BY GEORGE EVERETT PARTRIDGE, Ph.D._\n\n\nThe recent revival of story telling raises many interesting questions,\nboth practical and theoretical. Considered as a part of a larger\nmovement,\u2014an effort to control and utilize the powers concealed\nwithin the instincts and unconscious forces of the mind\u2014story telling\ntakes a place in a problem which we can hardly be mistaken in calling\none of the most important of our day. We have tended to value, in\neducation, only that which we can see and fully understand; but now,\nas we begin seriously to employ _arts_ in the school, and in the arts\nto subordinate knowledge to feeling, to use methods that yield no\nimmediate or practical return, we demand an increasing faith in the\npowers of receptivity and inner response of the child, and we must\nlearn more and more to detect, and to be satisfied with, unseen and\nremote effects.\n\nIn the art-invasion of the school, which is one aspect of this\nmovement toward a wider education, it is difficult to see how, in the\nnear future, we can be carried too far. We have been in the habit\nof emphasizing so much the learning process, that we are in danger\nof preventing the free and experimental attitude toward these new\ninterests that seems needed at the present time. We are likely to\nhave too little, rather than too much, faith in the play motives, the\n\u00e6sthetic moods, and the subconscious powers. We shall still want the\nchild to _express_, to dramatize, to be examined upon, everything he\nreceives: to externalize every response, even in the most intimate\nregions of feeling.\n\nIn calling the influx of artistic elements and methods into the school\none phase of the education of the _unconscious and deeper powers_, we\nhave a significant practical view-point, and are at the same time\nin touch with new results in science. As a practical ideal, we must\naim to educate _all_ the individual, not merely thought and voluntary\nmovement. We wish to reach the inherited mechanisms of the organism; we\nwish to play upon all the potentialities of feeling and volition, and\nto utilize powers latent in the deposits of experience that the child\nhas brought with him to the world.\n\nThese new results in science give to the well-worn principle that we\nmust educate _all_ the powers of the child a new meaning, and at least\nthree important advances in psychology, in recent years, combine to\nput solid ground under our feet for a practical \u00e6sthetics, and give us\nprinciples by which we can co\u00f6rdinate the artistic elements and methods\nof the school.\n\nThe first of these advances is the genetic psychology that has arisen\nand flourished on the basis of Darwinian principles in biology, and\nwhich has shown the fundamental place of the feelings in education.\nThe second is the new psycho-analysis, which, by showing the laws of\nthe symbolic expression of hidden desires and feelings, has given us\na new conception of the relation of art to life. The third new result\nis in the psychology of _valuation_, which has traced out, at least\nroughly, the course of development of the \u00e6sthetic and ethical states\nof consciousness.\n\nNew and incomplete and lacking in co\u00f6rdination as these principles\nare, they already yield us practical insights such as we have never\nbeen able to obtain from the older philosophies. We may confidently\nexpect to see in time a solid science of the feelings, which will give\nus a \u201cunion of art and life\u201d in a sound \u00e6stheticism in education: an\n\u00e6stheticism that will help to organize and control the fundamental\nfeelings, and will overcome the superficial aloofness of our prevailing\ntoo formal and too detached art. This will be based upon the discovery\nthat art, and the need of art, extend throughout all phases of human\nlife; and that all true art must _work_ in intimate union with\npractical affairs.\n\nConsiderations, such as these, seem essential for any study of the\nplace of story telling, or any other _art_, in education.\n\n\n                                  II\n\nThe story telling \u201csituation\u201d is an artistic situation. It falls under\nthe category of the _beautiful_, and is subject to all the general\nprinciples of \u00e6sthetics. Thus it stands in striking contrast with\nall formal methods of instruction, and all routine and unemotional\nlearning. In such artistic situations the child is _more fully present_\nthan in the formal school work, for he brings with him his deeper,\n_unconscious_ nature.\n\nThe nature of the story as an educational art is best shown by its\nplace in primitive life. Here the function of the story is clearly\npractical. By it religion, and all beliefs, morals, customs, and\ntraditions are conveyed to the child. The folk-tales, the legends, the\nfairy-tales, the epics, and the myths of the world are not _merely_\nfanciful inventions of man; in a far more profound way than we yet\nfully understand, they express man\u2019s most urgent needs and desires.\nPrimitive man began early to express, in his stories, by means of\na varied symbolism, his own hopes and wishes,\u2014sometimes, thereby,\nkeeping them alive through hard conditions, and passing them on to new\ngenerations; sometimes obtaining for them a vicarious satisfaction.\nThese racial stories affect our feelings deeply, simply because there\nis _continuity in evolution_: because the past still lives in the\npresent: because these stories are the products of universal needs,\nand symbolize or represent them. The story is thus a _language of the\nfeelings_; it is a means of communication between the past and the\nunconscious and undeveloped potentialities of the present. The story\nis a _symbolic_ language: its scenes and words are often trivial, but\nunderneath them runs a deeper meaning. Everyone who has told stories\nmust have felt this. We all know that when we tell a good story to a\nchild, the child is receiving from us indescribable meanings, which the\nstory itself conveys, but does not really contain or express,\u2014and this\nsense of free-masonry of emotional meaning is the greatest charm of the\nstory. One who feels this does not need to point a moral to a tale; and\none who feels the need of the moral does not really tell his story.\n\nWithout knowing something about the nature of the \u00e6sthetic feelings\nand moods it is impossible to understand the scope of such an art as\nstory telling. We are likely to think of \u00e6sthetic feeling as passive,\nor as merely \u201crefining\u201d in its effects: or, if inspiring, as mainly\naffecting the creative, artistic imagination. But this is not the case.\nAll \u00e6sthetic feelings are intensely active. Because the responses are\ninternal,\u2014a play of forces within the organism\u2014we are likely to\noverlook them altogether. In every \u00e6sthetic state, we have good reason\nto believe, there is a play of volitions, an active choosing, a drama\nof aroused and satisfied desire\u2014definite, specific desire, which,\nthough it may often be unconscious, if none the less real. And it is\nbecause of this drama of desire that \u00e6sthetic situations have meaning\nand value\u2014educational value.\n\nWe cannot at present know,\u2014and as practical educators we do not need\nto know\u2014precisely the mechanism or content of every emotional state;\nyet we can often see clearly some of the deeper meaning and effect of\n\u00e6sthetic valuations. We can see sometimes, in the child\u2019s interest in\nfairy-tales, for example, that the child is playing a part; that he\nis accepting for _himself_ misfortunes for the sake of the good that\nissues from them; that he is appreciating, in some half-conscious way,\nthe nature of a world in which events are not separate and haphazard,\nbut are connected through far-seeing purposes. The child is not\nmerely pleased at the story; he reacts to it by taking attitudes:\nby accepting, rejecting, deciding; by desiring, and by receiving\nsatisfaction. In such experiences the child is even acquiring religion,\nand the standards and moods of later life are made up of just such\nfeelings as are conveyed so effectively through the medium of the\nartistic story.\n\nThe story, then, is an important method in education. It is a very\neffective and natural devise for conveying the ideals and volitions\nof one generation to the mind of another, and of co\u00f6rdinating many\nindividuals by means of the common possession of these ideals and\npurposes. We have yet to learn fully how far we can go by this and\nother kinds of artistry in teaching; but that the story should\nhave a serious place in education, seems wholly certain. Just how\nlarge a place it should occupy is to be determined, in part, by\nexperiment. Good story telling may be utilized in so many subjects of\nthe curriculum, for so many purposes, and in so many departments of\neducation, within and without the school; its artistic possibilities\nare so great; the present momentum of interest is so strong, and so\nwell justified by science, that we may expect to see a widespread use\nof the story as a method of education. We shall expect to see story\ntelling become a part of the equipment of all teachers, and the story\nliterature of the world become more and more accessible, and better\nadapted to the child. And it is likely that the professional story\nteller will again flourish among us, as in the days before books and\nschools robbed him of his art.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n The Story Tellers\u2019 League, of Nashville, Tenn., issues an attractive\n Year Book for the current year. Among the topics announced for the\n year is a Greek pageant, \u201cThe Fire Regained,\u201d to be given out of\n doors at the Parthenon, in Centennial Park. This pageant was written\n by Mr. Sidney Hirsch, a member of the Story Tellers\u2019 League, and\n dedicated to the League. A popular subscription of $10,000 has been\n made by the city for its production. Seats will be arranged for 20,000\n people. The Schools will furnish 800 young men and young women for\n the performance; a herd of sheep and a flock of doves enter into the\n pageant. It will be given five afternoons early in May.\n\n\n\n\n                        STORY TELLING IN BOSTON\n\n                          _BY MARY W. CRONAN_\n\n         Official Story Teller for the Boston Public Libraries\n\n\nI really felt most delighted at the thought of the new magazine and\nwant to send an article, but can\u2019t seem to find time to write it.\nPerhaps it will answer if I just tell you what is being done in Boston\nLibraries and Settlements by Mr. Cronan and myself, and let you choose\nsuch items as seem of interest.\n\nThe Library classes are held in the afternoon. On Saturday from three\nto four Mr. Cronan and I tell stories in the Central Library. On Monday\nI go to Brighton; Tuesday to Jamaica Plain; Wednesday to South Boston;\nThursday the West End; Friday Shawmut Ave. Branch. All these are\nBranches of the Central Library. The ages of the children are from ten\nto fourteen. The attendance from one to two hundred.\n\nThe first part of the hour is devoted to telling the story of some book\nwhich the children have not read and which would be a valuable book\nfor them to know. As the boys greatly outnumber the girls, the book is\nchosen which is likely to appeal to them. I have told in \u201ccontinued\nstory\u201d form each book lasting from four to six periods of story telling\nthe following:\n\n  The Talisman\n  Oliver Twist\n  Spenser\u2019s \u201cFaerie Queen\u201d\n  Water Babies\n  Robin Hood\n  King Arthur and His Knights\n  The Rhinegold\n  Siegfried\n  Treasure Island\n  Captains Courageous\n  Peter Pan\n  The Bluebird\n  Jean Valjean\n  The Odyssey\n  Finn and his Mighty Deeds\n  The Christmas Carol\n  Konigs Kinder, etc.\n\nThe last twenty minutes of the hour is usually devoted to some story of\nfun or fancy\u2014a fairy tale\u2014or Brer\u2019 Rabbit\u2019s pranks. In the evening\nsimilar work is done in Social Settlements with groups of boys from\ntwelve to fourteen years of age. At Denison House we have ninety-six\nboys of Syrian and Irish nationality. There are groups in the Ruggles\nStreet Neighborhood House\u2014the \u201cSouth End Industrial School,\u201d Jamaica\nPlain Neighborhood House, South End House and Lincoln House.\n\nIn the summer story telling groups are held on the roof gardens of the\nSettlement House or in the yard where we sit on the grass and tell\nstories in the twilight\u2014often to groups of one hundred and fifty\nchildren.\n\nThe accompanying newspaper clippings about my work may be of interest:\n\n\n              INTRODUCES THE CHILD TO THE BEST LITERATURE\n\n \u201cI do not tell stories to amuse children, but to instruct them. The\n purpose is to introduce the child to the best literature and not to\n entertain him, although he is at the same time entertained.\n\n \u201cStory telling bridges the gap between the child and the library and\n brings him into literature. It develops the child in every way and\n teaches him what is really worth his while to read.\n\n \u201cIt develops the imagination, trains his mind and he gets many moral\n lessons, although I never tell stories as a means of preaching to\n children.\n\n\n                       DEVELOPS THE CHILD\u2019S MIND\n\n \u201cStory telling means far more to children than many people realize.\n The love for stories is born in every child and it takes but a\n remarkably short time before almost every child becomes a really\n wonderful listener.\n\n \u201cIt is interesting to observe how the mind of the child is developed.\n At first, many can keep their attention on a story only a short\n time, but they soon learn the power of application and can listen\n breathlessly for an hour and then ask for another story, even though\n they know the time is up. After their attention has once been gained,\n children will listen to stories as long as the story teller will\n continue.\n\n\n                        LIBRARIANS ENTHUSIASTIC\n\n \u201cAfter a year or more of story telling in the public libraries,\n I believe in the power of the story more than ever. Between the\n settlements and the libraries, over 1,200 children come to listen to\n me each week, and besides I have been conducting a normal class to\n teach young librarians how to tell stories themselves.\n\n \u201cAll the librarians appear to be enthusiastic over the story hour, and\n although it adds to their cares and confusion, they welcome me each\n week with a friendliness that is truly genuine.\n\n \u201cBut the real inspiration comes from the children themselves. They\n never seem to tire, and sometimes keep me for an hour and a quarter\n with \u2018A little more, please, just a few minutes. We want to know what\n became of Oliver,\u2019 or \u2018Didn\u2019t Siegfried come to life again?\u2019\n\n\n\n\n                            THE STONE LION\n\n A Tibetan story, retold from the excellent collection of Captain\n O\u2019Connor. Although a fairy-tale in form, it has the well marked\n purposive quality so characteristic of Eastern stories. Adapted from\n Folk-Tales from Tibet, by Captain W. P. O\u2019Connor.\n\n This story was voted to be the best story told during two years to a\n class of younger children at Bancroft School, Worcester. Twenty-two\n children whispered their votes to the story teller. Ten chose The\n Stone Lion, while no other story received more than four votes.\n\n This story, by permission of authors and publishers, is taken from\n Story Telling in School and Home, by Emelyn Newcomb Partridge and\n George E. Partridge. Sturgis & Walton Company, New York.\n\n\nOnce there were two brothers who lived with their mother in a large\nhouse on a farm. Their father was dead. The older brother was clever\nand selfish; but the younger was kind and gentle. The older brother did\nnot like the younger because he was honest, and never could get the\nbest of a bargain; so one day he said to him:\n\n\u201cYou must go away. I cannot support you any longer.\u201d\n\nSo the younger brother packed all his belongings, and went to bid his\nmother good-bye. When she heard what the older brother had done, she\nsaid:\n\n\u201cI will go with you, my son. I will not live here any longer with so\nhard-hearted a man as your brother.\u201d\n\nThe next morning the mother and the younger brother started out\ntogether. Toward night they came to a hut at the foot of a hill. It was\nempty except for an axe, which stood behind the door. But they managed\nto get their supper, and stayed in the hut all night.\n\nIn the morning they saw that on the side of the hill near the hut was\na great forest. The son took the axe, and went up on the hill side and\nchopped enough wood for a load to carry to the town on the other side\nof the hill. He easily sold it, and with a happy heart brought back\nfood and some clothing to make them both comfortable.\n\n\u201cNow, mother,\u201d he said, \u201cI can earn enough to keep us both, and we\nshall be happy here together.\u201d\n\nDay after day he went out and cut the wood, and at night carried it to\nthe village and sold it; and they always had plenty to eat and what\nthey needed to make them happy and comfortable.\n\nOne day the boy went further up the hill than he had ever gone before\nin search of better timber. As he climbed up the steep hillside, he\nsuddenly came upon a lion carved from stone.\n\n\u201cO!\u201d thought the boy, \u201cthis must be the guardian deity of this\nmountain. I will make him some offering tomorrow.\u201d\n\nThat night he bought two candles, and carried them to the lion. He\nlighted them and put one on each side of the lion, praying that his own\ngood fortune might continue.\n\nAs he stood there, suddenly the lion opened his great stone mouth, and\nsaid:\n\n\u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d\n\nThe boy told him all the story of his hard-hearted brother, and how he\nand his mother had left home, and were living in the hut at the foot of\nthe hill.\n\nWhen he had heard all of the story, the lion said:\n\n\u201cIf you will bring a bucket here tomorrow, and put it under my mouth, I\nwill fill it with gold for you.\u201d\n\nThe next day the boy brought the bucket and put it under the lion\u2019s\nmouth.\n\n\u201cYou must be very careful to tell me when it is nearly full,\u201d said the\nlion, \u201cfor if even one piece of gold should fall to the ground, great\ntrouble would be in store for you.\u201d\n\nThe boy was very careful to do exactly as the lion told him, and soon\nhe was on his way home to his mother with a bucketful of gold.\n\nThey were so rich now that they bought a great, beautiful farm, and\nwent there to live. Everything the boy undertook seemed to prosper.\nHe worked hard, and grew strong; and before many years had passed he\nwas old enough to marry, and bring a bride to the home. But the mother\nstill lived with them, and they were all very contented and happy.\n\nAt last the hard-hearted brother heard of their prosperity. He too had\nmarried, and had a little son. So he took his wife and the little boy,\nand went to pay his younger brother a visit. It was not long before he\nhad heard the whole story of their good fortune, and how the lion had\ngiven them all the gold.\n\n\u201cI will try that, too,\u201d he said.\n\nSo he took his wife and child and went to the very same hut his brother\nhad lived in, and there they passed the night.\n\nThe very next morning he started out with a bucket to visit the Stone\nLion.\n\nWhen he had told the lion his errand, the lion said:\n\n\u201cI will do that for you, but you must be very careful to tell me when\nthe bucket is nearly full; for even if one little piece of gold touches\nthe ground, great misery will surely fall upon you.\u201d\n\nNow the elder brother was so greedy that he kept shaking the bucket to\nget the gold pieces closer together. And when the bucket was nearly\nfull he did not tell the lion, as the younger brother had done, for he\nwanted all he could get.\n\nSuddenly one of the gold pieces fell upon the ground.\n\n\u201cO,\u201d cried the lion, \u201ca big piece of gold is stuck in my throat. Put\nyour hand in and get it out. It is the largest piece of all.\u201d\n\nThe greedy man thrust his hand at once into the lion\u2019s mouth\u2014and the\nlion snapped his jaws together.\n\nAnd there the man stayed, for the Lion would not let him go. And the\ngold in the bucket turned into earth and stones.\n\nWhen night came, and the husband did not come home, the wife became\nanxious, and went out to search for him. At last she found him, with\nhis arm held fast in the lion\u2019s mouth. He was tired, cold and hungry.\nShe comforted him as best she could, and brought him some food.\n\nEvery day now the wife must go with food for her husband. But there\ncame a day when all the money was gone, and the baby was sick, and the\npoor woman herself was too ill to work. She went to her husband and\nsaid:\n\n\u201cThere is no more food for you, nor for us. We shall all have to die.\nO! if we had only not tried to get the gold.\u201d\n\nThe lion was listening to all that was said, and he was so pleased at\ntheir misfortune that he began laughing at them. And as he laughed, he\nopened his mouth, and the greedy man quickly drew out his hand, before\nthe lion had a chance to close his jaws again!\n\nThey were glad enough to get away from the place where they had had\nsuch ill luck, and so they went to the brother\u2019s house once more. The\nbrother was sorry for them, and gave them enough money to buy a small\nplace, and there the hard-hearted brother took his family and lived.\n\nThe younger brother and his wife and his mother lived very happily in\ntheir beautiful home, but they always remembered the Stone Lion on the\nhillside, who gave them their good fortune.\n\n\n\n\n                     THE OYSTER AND ITS CLAIMANTS\n\n (From Walter Thornbury\u2019s translation of Esop\u2019s Fables, made into verse\n by M. De La Fontaine. Fable CLXXII. Page 501\u2014\u201cLa Fontaine\u2019s Fables.\u201d)\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n There is something so grand in this species of composition, that many\n of the Ancients have attributed the greater part of these fables to\n Socrates; selecting as their author that individual amongst mortals\n who was most directly in communication with the gods. I am rather\n surprised that they have not maintained that these fables descended\n direct from heaven.... The fable is a gift which comes from the\n immortals; it if were the gift of man, he who gave it to us would\n deserve a temple. From Preface to La Fontaine\u2019s Fables.\n\n\n    Two travellers discovered on the beach\n      An Oyster, carried thither by the sea.\n    \u2019Twas eyed with equal greediness by each;\n      Then came the question whose was it to be.\n    One, stooping down to pounce upon the prize,\n      Was thrust away before his hand could snatch it.\n    \u201cNot quite so quickly,\u201d his companion cried;\n      \u201cIf _you\u2019ve_ a claim here, _I\u2019ve_ a claim to match it;\n    The first that saw it has the better right\n      To its possession; come, you can\u2019t deny it.\u201d\n    \u201cWell,\u201d said his friend, \u201cmy orbs are pretty bright,\n      And I, upon my life, was first to spy it.\u201d\n    \u201cYou? Not at all; or, if you _did_ perceive it,\n      I _smelt_ it long before it was in view;\n    But here\u2019s a lawyer coming\u2014let us leave it\n      To him to arbitrate between the two.\u201d\n    The lawyer listens with a stolid face,\n      Arrives at his decision in a minute;\n    And, as the shortest way to end the case,\n      Opens the shell and eats the fish within it.\n    The rivals look upon him with dismay:\u2014\n      \u201cThis Court,\u201d says he, \u201cawards you each a shell;\n    You\u2019ve neither of you any costs to pay,\n      And so be happy. Go in peace. Farewell!\u201d\n\n    How often, when causes to trial are brought,\n    Does the lawyer get pelf and his client get nought!\n    The former will pocket his fees with a sneer,\n    While the latter sneaks off with a flea in his ear.\n\n\n\n\n             THE PSYCHO-THERAPEUTIC VALUE OF STORY TELLING\n\n                          _FRANCES E. FOOTE_\n\n\nThe Story telling Movement is growing with such gigantic strides that\na magazine which will keep the Missionaries in this movement in touch\nwith one another seems most desirable, if not absolutely necessary.\n\nMany writers have voiced many opinions as to the benefits to be derived\nfrom the exercise of the Art of Story telling, but there is one which\nI have never seen in black and white, about which I feel impelled to\nwrite. It is the _Psycho-Therapeutic value of Story telling_.\n\nPain is a real thing, and will hold us in his clutches and claim all\nour attention if allowed to do so.\n\nSorrow is absorbing, and will bow our heads and break our spirits if\nunhindered.\n\nUpon what, then, may we concentrate our attention, that pain may grow\nweary of pressing his claim?\n\nWith what may we so absorb our minds that sorrow will fade away?\n\nOne of the fundamental principles of Story telling is that the oral\ninterpreter of Literature, must so vividly _see_ the pictures described\nin the story, that he will cause his hearers to feel that they, too,\nsee.\n\nHe must _feel_ the impulses and emotions of the characters in the story\nso truly that the hearts of his hearers will thrill with the same\nfeeling.\n\nSince this is true, that the mind must be absorbed in the distant\nscenes of Story Land, pain in due course of time must grow tired of\nurging his claim and will ultimately depart.\n\nThe emotions dominant in stories which we tell are altruistic for the\nmost part. We prefer to dwell upon themes in which evil is overcome by\ngood; those in which sorrow flees away and joy comes with the morning.\n\nIsn\u2019t it true that the person who, day after day, creates these\naltruistic emotions in the hearts of his hearers will find his sorrow,\ndeep-seated though it may be, growing dimmer day by day as he brightens\nthe lives of his hearers?\n\nThere are many cases which I could give you to prove my point. One, of\na little child with spinal trouble, who was treated by a great surgeon.\nHe would call upon her two or three days out of the week and each time\ntell her a story. He required her, meanwhile, to make up similar\nstories. For instance, he would tell her the story of \u201cLittle Green\nCap.\u201d Then he would say, \u201cNow, by Tuesday I want you to have a story\nready for me. It must be about a poor little girl, a princess and a\nmagic ring.\u201d So absorbed did the child become in such work that the\npain in the poor little back grew less and less insistent until she\nceased to be an invalid and was able to attend school. She was one of\nthe happiest children I ever knew. She said she didn\u2019t mind the pain\nany more, she had such lovely things to think about.\n\nAnother was the case of a young woman upon whom sorrow laid a heavy\nhand. Prostrated by grief, she lay for several days in a darkened room.\nThen rousing herself she went to a hospital and secured permission from\nthe superintendent to visit daily the friendless patients who seemed\nlonely. For months she reported daily to the superintendent, was given\ndirections as to which patients to visit, and for three hours she\nwould go from one to the other telling humorous stories. The morning\nhours she spent hunting for artistic, mirth-provoking stories and her\nafternoons in bringing smiles to sad faces. The result was inevitable.\nPeople everywhere welcomed her as a ray of sunshine.\n\nOne more case\u2014that of a young woman who, while making a brave struggle\nto recover from one serious operation, suddenly found herself facing\nanother even more serious. With nerves racked by persistent pain,\ncourage well nigh gone, pursued by that dread foe insomnia, she turned\nto her one accomplishment, Story telling. Though able to sit up but a\nfew hours at a time, she held large audiences in many cities two or\nthree times a week, until she once more went under the knife. Then\nwithin two months she was on the platform again, bringing herself back\nto health by compelling her mind to dwell in Storyland. I knew all the\nparticulars of this case, the physical torture she endured for two\nyears, the struggle she made to live, and knowing what I do, forces me\nto believe that if Story telling did not save her life, it certainly\nsaved her reason.\n\nIt is a law of life that the only thing which we may always _keep_, is\nthe thing we _give_. If then, the prime function of Story telling is\nthe giving of _Joy_, then _Joy_ is the thing which the Story teller may\nhave.\n\nTo those who \u201ctravail and are heavy laden\u201d I commend the Art of Story\ntelling.\n\n\n\n\n                       STORY TELLING FOR MOTHERS\n\n\nInteresting accounts were recently published in the _Herald_, _Sun_ and\nother New York papers of Miss Georgene Faulkner\u2019s story telling for\nmothers and children at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York and St. Mary\u2019s\nParish House, Brooklyn.\n\nThe story telling at the Waldorf-Astoria was given under the auspices\nof Mrs. William Rogers Chapman, President of the Rubenstein Musical\nClub, to an audience of fourteen hundred, of which about seven hundred\nwere children.\n\nMiss Faulkner, in Mother Goose attire, told the children Mother Goose\nstories, assisted by singers who presented ballads to accompany the\nstories. Much to the amusement of the children, Miss Faulkner would\nsometimes change the text of the Mother Goose rhymes, and the children\nwere not backward about crying out corrections of these errors. Miss\nFaulkner would say:\n\n    \u201cJack and Jill went up the hill,\n      Like a dutiful son and daughter;\n    Now Jack is sick, and Jill is ill,\n      They did not boil the water.\u201d\n\nThis would be greeted by a chorus of, \u201cNo, No, that isn\u2019t the way it\ngoes!\u201d and other exclamations.\n\nLater, Miss Faulkner, in German costume, told the fairy story of\n\u201cHansel and Gretel.\u201d\n\nThe \u201cGingerbread Man,\u201d otherwise known as \u201cJohnny Cake\u201d and \u201cThe Wee\nBunnock,\u201d gave more pleasure to the children than any other story,\nperhaps because it was accompanied by Gingerbread Men in neat boxes,\nwhich were given to the children as souvenirs of the occasion.\n\nThrough the courtesy of Mrs. Chapman and with the assistance of Mrs.\nArthur Elliot Fish, one hundred crippled children, from the Industrial\nSchool for Crippled Children, participated in the delights of the\n\u201cMother Goose\u201d matinee.\n\nThe story telling at St. Mary\u2019s Parish House, was arranged primarily\nfor mothers, under the auspices of Miss Mabel McKinney, Superintendent\nof the Kindergartens in the Borough of Brooklyn.\n\n\u201cWhat kind of a story,\u201d said Miss Faulkner, \u201cshould the mother tell\nto her children? Any good interesting story will lend itself to the\nspoken narrative. Many mothers are so careless about what their\nchildren read \u2014thinking that almost any book which they get from the\nlibrary will answer the need. This is a great mistake. If the mother\nwill only take care to direct the young mind into the right channels\nat the impressionable period she would lay a firm foundation on which\nto build the future life of the child. Not only are many books from\nPublic Libraries pernicious, but from the Sunday-School Libraries as\nwell. Many mothers make a practice of filling the minds of their little\nchildren with a hodge-podge of information, superstition, fear and\nother ideas which have had a bad effect upon the children\u2019s mind. They\nthink it makes little difference what they put into the child\u2019s thought\nso long as it is a story. In reality it makes all the difference in the\nworld.\n\n\u201cWith the great storehouse of classical and folk-lore stories within\neasy reach; stories of brave deeds well done; of self-sacrifice; of\nlove and duty and other high ideals, the mind of the child is easily\nguided into channels of right thinking, and if mothers only realized\nit more fully, it is in their power through the medium of these\nstories to fill the little mind with ideals, which will have a most\nimportant bearing through life in the development of character. Through\nthe simple art of story telling the mother possesses the key to the\nhidden nature of the child if she could only be made to appreciate and\nunderstand the value of the story influence.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Story Tellers\u2019 League at the Alabama Girls\u2019 Technical Institute,\nMontevallo, is divided into chapters: The Poe Chapter; the Uncle Remus\nChapter, and the Wyche Chapter. The Poe Chapter deals with the Edgar\nAllen Poe stories, Kipling, Hawthorne, and Irving, while the Uncle\nRemus Chapter deals with the Arabian Nights, Robin Hood, Uncle Remus,\nFolk and Fairy Tales. The Wyche Chapter deals with the Stories of King\nArthur; the Opera stories\u2014Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel; the Beowulf\nStory, and Stories of Knighthood by J. H. Cox. The Chapters meet once\na week separately, throughout the school year, and occasionally they\nhave a joint meeting. The programme of the League as well as other\nsocieties in the school are published by the Institute, and may be had\nfor the asking. The Story Tellers\u2019 League, with its three chapters, has\na combined membership of one hundred and twenty-five, making it one of\nthe strongest organizations in the school. One Chapter of the League\ndevotes time to the playing of folk games at the recreation hour, in\nthe afternoon, on the lawn.\n\n\n\n\n             THE BEOWULF CLUB OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY\n\n                        BY JOHN HARRINGTON COX\n\n\nThe above-named organization is the story telling club of the\nUniversity. Its formation grew out of the enthusiasm of four young\nwomen who were studying the great Anglo-Saxon epic, of course, in\nthe original. Their eagerness to master the famous tale, to be\nable to retell it with at least somewhat of its original vigor,\npicturesqueness, and fascination, was worthy of a permanent record.\nTheir zeal was to make the story something more than a mere name. They\nthought that this priceless bit of literary heritage should be gotten\noff the printed page and down into the hearts of people far and wide\nthroughout our State.\n\nAs the idea developed its possibilities began to be more fully\nrealized. Here was an opportunity of enlisting the sympathies of some\nof the brightest young men and young women of the University, in the\ngreat stories of the world; stories of all ages and all countries;\nprose and verse, ranging from the fairy tale to the Iliad. And,\nmoreover, it was thought that the interest would not be a passing one,\nbut permanent. The necessity of mastering the outlines of a story, the\npractice in recreating it by memory and imagination, the vivifying of\nit through the emotions and the personality of the teller, was believed\nto furnish an exercise in many ways more pleasurable and profitable\nthan those obtained in the usual recitation.\n\nThe result more than fulfilled all expectations. The club was formed\non the Twenty-ninth of February, Nineteen hundred and eight. Since\nthat time it has not missed a single meeting. The membership averages\nabout twelve from year to year. Most of these on leaving the University\nbecome teachers and carry the work into their schools, teachers\u2019\ninstitutes, and public entertainments. Several times the club has been\ninvited to give a public performance. Invitations to its meetings are\neagerly welcomed and the young people who tell the stories never lack\nfor an appreciative audience.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nDetroit, Michigan, has recently organized a Story Tellers\u2019 League. Miss\nMary Conover is President, and Miss Alice M. Alexander, Secretary. The\nfirst program is devoted to Irish stories; the second evening Folk\nstories. Hero tales for another meeting, with Bible and Animal stories\nto make up the programs for two meetings. The League meets at the\nCollege Club rooms, and has a membership of thirty.\n\n\n\n\n                HOW TO ORGANIZE A STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n\n\n\u201cI have just read an article in the March number of _The World\u2019s Work_,\non the Story Tellers\u2019 League movement, have heard of the Story Tellers\u2019\nLeague, or read a chapter in Mr. Wyche\u2019s book, \u2018Some Good Stories and\nHow to Tell Them,\u2019 on the Story Tellers\u2019 League, and should like to\norganize such a league in my community. How shall I go about it?\u201d\n\nThis is a question that comes almost every day to some officer of the\nStory Tellers\u2019 League.\n\nThe method of procedure in organizing a Story Tellers\u2019 League is a very\nsimple one. The first step is to call a meeting of as many prospective\nmembers as can be gotten together. A chairman and secretary _pro tem_\nshould then be elected and the meeting called to order. The organizer\nshould then state the purpose of the meeting, ask for the enrollment\nof the names and addresses of those who wish to join and have these\nrecorded by the secretary.\n\nThe next step is the nomination and election of permanent officers,\nusually a President, First Vice-President, Second Vice-President,\nRecording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer. Upon the\nelection of these officers, the chairman and secretary pro tem resign\nin favor of the elected officers, and the League is then duly organized\nfor business.\n\nThe adoption of the Constitution and By-Laws is next in order. The\nConstitution deals with the name, object, membership, officers, etc.,\nof the League; while the By-Laws provide for the dates of meetings,\ndues, time and mode of the election of officers, and such other\nrules and regulations for the conduct of the League as may be deemed\ndesirable. An Executive Committee may then be appointed to look\nafter the general business of the League, such as the arrangement of\nprogrammes at the meetings; the planning of entertainments and special\nexercises, and various other matters of this nature. The officers of\nthe League are usually _ex officio_ members of the Executive Committee.\n\nThe League when organized should be reported to the President of the\nNational Story Tellers\u2019 League, with the name and address of its\nPresident and Secretary, so that it may be enrolled with similar\nLeagues throughout the United States.\n\nSome leagues issue Year-books which may be had upon application to the\nSecretary. The National League will shortly issue a year-book giving\ngeneral information in regard to the story telling movement, with list\nof the League\u2019s suggestive programmes.\n\n\n\n\n                      WHAT THE LEAGUES ARE DOING\n\n\nThe National Playground and Recreation Association of America will hold\nits next annual meeting at Richmond, Virginia, May 6th to 10th.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMiss Anna Tyler of the New York Public Library, recently spoke to the\nPublic School Kindergarten Association on the subject of Story Telling\nand Children\u2019s Books. The New York Library has thirty-eight branches,\nand Miss Tyler has charge of the story-telling work in these branches.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nMiss Tyler explained how illuminating it was to watch the little ones\u2019\nuse of books, and how the child was introduced to the right book by\nseeing pictures in the book and hearing a story told from the book.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe National Story Tellers\u2019 League will hold a conference with members\nand representatives of all local Leagues this Summer, at the following\nplaces: July 19th, at Knoxville, Tenn., in connection with the Summer\nSchool of the South. At Chautauqua, N. Y., August 16th, in connection\nwith the Chautauqua Institute. At Parkersburg, West Virginia, June\n21st, in connection with the State Teachers\u2019 Association of West\nVirginia.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Story Tellers\u2019 League of Philadelphia, a branch of the National\nLeague, has for its President, Mr. F. A. Child, Professor of Oral\nLiterature in the University of Pennsylvania. The meeting of March\n12th was called \u201cIndian Day.\u201d Primitive tales of Alaskan Indian life,\ninspired by legends on the Totem Pole, gives one an idea of the subject\nof the day. Mr. L. V. Shortridge, University of Pennsylvania, dressed\nin native costume told the stories. He showed the Alaskan territory,\nwith its totem poles, putting his audience in touch with actual\nconditions from which these folk tales grew. At this meeting teachers,\nstory tellers and leaders of groups of children were invited to bring\nchildren with them. Mr. Robert Staton furnished Indian Song.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPhiladelphia has one of the largest and most successful Leagues. Its\nmembership numbers something like one hundred people, and it has\ncreated a great deal of interest in the city among various classes of\nteachers and educators as well as lovers of literature.\n\n\n\n\n                               EDITORIAL\n\n\nIn entering the arena of Journalism THE STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE invites\nthe support of all who love literature and youth. There are many\nmagazines today covering almost every field of activity, but not one\ndevoted to _the art of story telling_.\n\nWhile it is true that most of the magazines publish stories, few of\nthem deal with the educational aspect of these stories\u2014their most\nimportant relation.\n\nStory telling in the schools; at the home; on the playground; in the\nSunday schools; the children\u2019s library rooms of the Public Library,\nand among social organizations has become so popular and aroused\nsuch widespread interest throughout the land that some medium of\ncommunication which will represent and unify these interests\u2014has\nbecome almost a necessity.\n\nTHE STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE is founded upon a definite purpose. It\nenters the field in the hope that it will merit the support of a large\nnumber of general readers as well as teachers, parents and all who are\ninterested in the uplifting of the rising generation. It goes forth as\na missionary to acquaint its audience as far as it can with the vital\nprinciples that underlie the whole movement of story telling. It,\ntherefore, invites the co-operation of all who believe in the story\ntelling idea, in the hope that great good may come through such a union\nof interests.\n\nThe Editor of the MAGAZINE has devoted many years to the work of\nstory telling, and he earnestly hopes that through the columns of\nthe MAGAZINE greater opportunity may be afforded for direction and\norganization, and thus make more permanent the whole story telling\nmovement.\n\nThere is a growing belief that in arranging the curriculum of studies\nfor the young the rights and interests of the child have received\nbut scant consideration. Mere drudgery has been translated to mean\ndevelopment while hard labor with little thought to the tendencies and\nattributes of the individual child has been accepted as education.\n\nTHE STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE offers itself as a champion of the rights\nof the child in education, and it hopes with the co-operation of those\nwho know and believe in the efficacy of the story as a pleasing and\neffective instrument of education to battle bravely for the rights and\nliberties of the child, who has been aptly termed \u201cthe last serf of\ncivilization.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nElsewhere in this issue will be found an \u201cANNOUNCEMENT\u201d setting forth\nin some detail the aims and ideals of the STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE.\n\nThe chief aim of this magazine is to serve the great cause of story\ntelling in a manner that will best satisfy the needs of _the greatest\nnumber_ of those interested in the movement.\n\nHow shall this be accomplished? The answer to this question is\n_Co-operation_.\n\nThe first issue of a magazine is something of an experiment. Its\nmake-up is open to criticism and discussion. Its friends can do it no\ngreater service than to disclose its shortcomings and point out the\nroad to improvement.\n\nCriticism is usually divided into two schools, one constructive, the\nother destructive; or better, let us say into friendly or unfriendly\ncriticism.\n\nWhile we shall endeavor to turn all unfriendly comment into\nconstructive channels, we shall hope far more to profit by the\nsympathetic assistance and helpful advice of friends and well-wishers.\n\nThe latch string is out to all, but a double welcome is assured to\nthose who \u201cLEND A HAND.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n                   THE MOTHER\u2014THE CHILD\u2014THE STORY\n\n Extract from a Report of Committee on Story Telling to the Montessori\n Class, University of Virginia Summer School\n\n\nSince all races in all epochs have used oral stories both as a means\nof education and entertainment, and since much of the culture and\ncivilization that our ancestors have bequeathed to us has come down\nto us in the form of story literature, and since the children of all\nraces and in all times have said, \u201cTell me a story,\u201d we believe it is\nfundamental in the child\u2019s life and education.\n\nWe believe that the mother, who instinctively hums lullabys and sings\nMother Goose Rhymes to the child is cultivating the child\u2019s sense\nof rhythm, touching its feelings, and speaking to it through vocal\nlanguage\u2014voice modulation\u2014which precedes verbal language; that the\nmother who sings\n\n    \u201cHush you bybaby in the tree tops,\n    When the wind blows the cradle will rock,\u201d etc.,\n\nand other Mother Goose jingles, has already begun her story telling.\n\nThat the story, the most universally used medium for conveying truth\nand especially the _told_ story that comes through the sensuous beauty\nof speech, should be continued throughout the child\u2019s education.\n\nWe believe that when a child attributes life to its doll, makes up\nstrange and unreal stories, that it does so in obedience to a deep\npsychic necessity,\u2014that of developing the imagination, and that as a\nchild climbs a tree or ladder and in doing so develops his body and\nbodily senses, so he must have for the development of his imagination\nthe clear, bold, mental picture whether it be in fairy and folk stories\nor the high daring of some noble hero in epic literature or history.\n\nWe believe that the development of the imagination should go hand\nin hand with the sense training, modified by local, ethnic, and\nindividual needs, and that children as well as adults must have heroes\nto admire and worship and ideals to inspire; that the idea of God\ncan be represented only through the imagination and that to deny the\nchild stories of gods and supernatural beings would be to bring him up\nwithout religious training. That the story that delights the child has\npsycho-therapeutic value and whether it be fact or fiction it is true\nin a higher sense, ministering to the spiritual needs of the child, and\ntherefore valuable in education.\n\nWe believe that it is the most inalienable right of all children to\nhear stories told from the great story books of the world; that wise\nselections of stories should be made not only from the literature and\nhistory of Europe and America, but from Japan, China, Russia, and\nIndia, so that we may develop in the young people a feeling of a world\nbrotherhood.\n\n\n\n\n                            THE GREAT EPICS\n\n\nThe following suggestive outline of a \u201cSTORY HOUR CYCLE,\u201d arranged by\nthe Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, is re-published as an excellent\nexample of systematic classification.\n\nSuch study applied to any of the great epics will not only discover to\nthe story teller a great treasure house of stories, but will be helpful\nin holding them together in sequential relation.\n\n\nSTORIES FROM THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY\n\n\nTHE SIEGE OF TROY\n\n\nSTORY I. THE APPLE OF DISCORD\n\n  1. The Founding of Troy\n  2. Story of Paris and \u0152none\n  3. Marriage of Peleus and Thetis\n  4. The Apple of Discord\n  5. The Judgment of Paris\n\n\nSTORY II. THE LEAGUE AGAINST TROY\n\n  1. The Athletic Games in Troy\n  2. Discovery of the Parentage of Paris\n  3. Embassy to Greece\n  4. Story of Helen and the Pledge of the Greek Princes\n  5. Abduction of Helen\n  6. League against Troy\n\n\nSTORY III. THE BEGINNING OF THE TROJAN WAR\n\n  1. The Stratagem of Ulysses\n  2. The Quest for Achilles\n  3. The Assembling of the Greeks\n  4. The Omen of the Snake and the Birds\n  5. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia\n  6. The Heroism of Protesilaus\n  7. Beginning of the War\n\n\nSTORY IV. THE QUARREL OF THE CHIEFS\n\n  1. The Wrath of Apollo\n  2. How Agamemnon Wronged Achilles\n  3. The Revenge of Achilles\n  4. The Dream of Agamemnon\n  5. Assembly of the Greeks\n  6. The Counsel of Ulysses\n  7. Preparation for the Battle\n\n\nSTORY V. THE DUEL OF PARIS AND MENELAUS\n\n  1. The Challenge of Paris\n  2. The Combat\n  3. The Council of the Gods\n  4. The Broken Covenant\n\n\nSTORY VI. THE COMBAT OF HECTOR AND AJAX\n\n  1. The Message of Hector\n  2. The Parting of Hector and Andromache\n  3. The Challenge\n  4. The Casting of the Lots\n  5. The Combat\n  6. The Truce\n\n\nSTORY VII. THE BATTLE OF THE PLAIN\n\n  1. The Command of Zeus to the Gods\n  2. The Battle\n  3. The Speech of Hector\n  4. The Council of the Greeks\n  5. The Embassy to Achilles\n  6. The Answer of Achilles\n\n\nSTORY VIII. THE DEEDS AND DEATH OF PATROCLUS\n\n  1. The Battle at the Ships\n  2. The Request of Patroclus\n  3. The Myrmidons March forth to Battle\n  4. The Death of Patroclus\n  5. The Grief of Achilles\n  6. How Achilles ended the Battle\n\n\nSTORY IX. THE EXPLOITS OF ACHILLES\n\n  1. The Making of the Armor for Achilles\n  2. The End of the Strife with Agamemnon\n  3. The Battle at the River\n  4. The Battle of the Gods\n  5. Achilles\u2019 Pursuit of the False Agener\n\n\nSTORY X. THE SLAYING OF HECTOR\n\n  1. The Pursuit of Hector by Achilles\n  2. The Combat\n  3. Death of Hector\n  4. Grief of Andromache\n  5. The Funeral of Patroclus\n  6. The Funeral Games of the Greeks\n  7. The Ransoming of Hector\n\n\nSTORY XI. THE FALL OF TROY\n\n  1. The Fate of Achilles\n  2. The Death of Paris\n  3. Capture of the Palladium\n  4. Stratagem of Ulysses\n  5. The Fate of Laoco\u00f6n\n  6. Capture of Troy\n\n\nTHE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES\n\n\nSTORY XII. ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES WITH THE LOTUS-EATERS AND THE CYCLOPS\n\n  1. Adventure with the Ciconians\n  2. The Lotus-eaters\n  3. The Land of the Cyclops\n  4. In the Cave of the Cyclops\n  5. The Blinding of Polyphemus\n  6. Escape of Ulysses and his Companions\n\n\nSTORY XIII. THE KINGDOM OF THE WINDS AND THE HOUSE OF CIRCE\n\n  1. The Gift of \u00c6olus\n  2. The Loosing of the Winds\n  3. Return to the Isle of \u00c6olus\n  4. Adventure with the L\u00e6strygones\n  5. The Wiles of Circe\n\n\nSTORY XIV. THE VISIT TO THE \u201cLAND OF THE SHADES\u201d\n\n  1. The Offering for the Dead\n  2. The Warning of Tiresias the Seer\n  3. How Ulysses Conversed with his Mother and with Achilles and other\n      Heroes\n  4. The Judging of the Dead\n  5. Return to Circe\u2019s Isle.\n\n\nSTORY XV. THE SONG OF THE SIRENS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS AND THE OXEN OF\nTHE SUN\n\n  1. Song of the Sirens\n  2. Escape from Scylla and Charybdis\n  3. Arrival at the Island of the Sun\n  4. The Slaying of the Sacred Kine\n  5. The Wrath of Hyperion\n  6. The Shipwreck\n\n\nSTORY XVI. THE ISLAND OF CALYPSO AND THE SHIPWRECK ON THE COAST OF\nPH\u00c6ACIA\n\n  1. The Years on Calypso\u2019s Isle\n  2. Minerva seeks aid for Ulysses from Jupiter\n  3. Mercury is sent with a Message to Calypso\n  4. Making of the Raft\n  5. Departure of Ulysses\n  6. The Tempest\n  7. Ulysses Cast on the Coast of Ph\u00e6acia\n\n\nSTORY XVII. THE PRINCESS NAUSICAA\n\n  1. The Request of Nausicaa\n  2. The Games of the Maidens\n  3. Discovery of Ulysses\n  4. How Ulysses was Received in the Palace of Alcinous\n  5. The Festival\n  6. Return to Ithaca\n  7. Ulysses left asleep in his Native Shore\n  8. The Ship of the Ph\u00e6acians changed to a Rock\n\n\nSTORY XVIII. THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS\n\n  1. The Suitors of Penelope\n  2. Penelope\u2019s Web\n  3. Visit of Minerva to Telemachus\n  4. Assembly of the Men of Ithaca\n  5. Departure of Telemachus in quest of Ulysses\n  6. Journey to Pylos and Sparta\n  7. Telemachus warned by Minerva to return to Ithaca\n  8. Conspiracy of the Suitors\n  9. Escape of Telemachus\n\n\nSTORY XIX. THE BATTLE OF THE BEGGARS\n\n  1. Awaking of Ulysses\n  2. Transformation into an Old Man\n  3. Meeting with Eum\u00e6us\n  4. Arrival of Telemachus\n  5. Eum\u00e6us conducts Ulysses to his Palace\n  6. The Dog Argus\n  7. The Beggars\u2019 Quarrel\n  8. The End of the Feast\n\n\nSTORY XX. THE TRIUMPH OF ULYSSES\n\n  1. Removal of the Weapons from the Hall\n  2. Interview with Penelope\n  3. The Scar of the Boar\u2019s Tooth\n  4. The Last Banquet of the Suitors\n  5. The Trial of the Bow\n  6. Death of the Suitors\n  7. Recognition of Ulysses by Penelope\n\n\n\n\n                           SOME RECENT BOOKS\n\n\n \u201cSTORY TELLING IN SCHOOL AND HOME.\u201d A Study in Educational \u00c6sthetics.\n By Emelyn Newcomb Partridge and George Everett Partridge, Ph.D.\n Publishers, Sturgis & Walton Co., New York. Price, $1.25 net.\n\nThis is the fifth book that has appeared on story telling in the past\nhalf a dozen years. The authors have presented the psychological\nfoundation and the \u00e6sthetic value of story telling in a most elaborate\nand convincing way. It is the first book that has been written by a\npsychologist, on the subject of story telling, and Dr. Partridge\u2019s\nhandling of the delicate, subtle, psychic forces that enter into\nliterature and story telling is masterful; while Mrs. Partridge, with\nher practical experience as a story teller, contributes as much to the\nart as applied and exemplified in actual work of facing an audience of\nyoung people.\n\nThe study of the child on one hand and its fundamental needs, and the\nsurvey and analysis of sources from which we can draw material,\u2014myth,\nfable, folklore, epic, and history on the other, is of immense value\nto all story tellers and all who teach young people even up to college\nentrance.\n\nPart II of the book contains a dozen retold stories that have been\nput into shape by the oral telling, and are valuable both because\nof the form and their intrinsic worth. The book contains a number\nof illustrations, which add to its attractiveness, along with a\nbibliography and suggestions for reading. We cannot praise the book too\nhighly. It is an inspiring book to read and a permanent contribution to\nthe literature of story telling.\n\n\n SOME GREAT STORIES AND HOW TO TELL THEM. By Richard Thomas Wyche.\n Price $1.00. Newson & Company, New York.\n\n\u201cStory tellers were the first teachers,\u201d says Mr. Wyche in his chapter\non \u201cThe Origin of Story Telling.\u201d\n\nIn an interesting way he throws light on what stories shall be told,\nthe use of the story in the classroom and in formal work, the story in\nthe Sunday-school, the library, the playground, and the social circle.\n\nThe author also discusses the fundamental needs of the child, the\npsychological principles involved, and the spiritual equipment needed\nin story telling.\n\nFor purposes of illustration the author uses \u201cThe Story of Beowulf,\u201d\n\u201cThe Coming of Arthur,\u201d and other \u201cGreat Stories.\u201d\n\n\n GAMES FOR THE PLAYGROUND, HOME, SCHOOL, AND GYMNASIUM. By Jessie H.\n Bancroft. Price, $1.50 net. The Macmillan Company, New York.\n\nMiss Bancroft\u2019s book of games is a volume of over four hundred and\nsixty pages, with twenty-three illustrations. It contains, we should\nsay, over two thousand games classified for Elementary schools from\nthe first to the eighth year, for High schools, for playgrounds, for\ngymnasiums, for boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 summer camps, for house parties\nand country clubs, for children\u2019s parties, and for the seashore. An\nexcellent system of classification makes it possible to classify the\ngames in many different ways, and thus easily find those suited to\none\u2019s needs.\n\nAs story telling and playing games are blood relations on the\nplayground, this book is to be cordially commended as an interesting\nand valuable contribution to the Cause.\n\n\n THE NORMAL CHILD AND PRIMARY EDUCATION. By Arnold L. Gesell, Ph.D.,\n and Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Ed.B. Price, $1.25. Ginn & Company, New\n York.\n\nThis work, the authors tell us, is chiefly the result of contact with\neager minds of young women who were preparing to teach young children.\n\nIt will interest story tellers mainly because of its extensive analysis\nand discussion of the child in the educational relation.\n\n\u201cTo achieve results in literature,\u201d it is stated, \u201cthe children\nmust have something more than a good story: they must have a good\nstory teller\u2014one with quick sympathies and an intuitive knowledge\nof her group; one who loves the old stories, who feels the pulse of\nhumanity throbbing through them all; whose voice is clear, flexible,\ninterpretative; whose language is simple, direct, pictorial; who enters\ninto a dramatic situation; who has a keen sense of humor, who is\nwilling to sow the seed and let it develop in its own good time.\u201d \u201cThe\nNormal Child\u201d is a most helpful, illuminating, and instructive book.\n\n\n THE CHILDREN\u2019S READING. By Frances Jenkins Olcott. Price, $1.25 net.\n Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.\n\nMiss Olcott has given us a valuable book on children\u2019s readings. She\nspeaks as an authority from her many years\u2019 experience as a librarian;\ntherein is the chief value of her book. She knows the names and\nauthors of many of the best books for young people, and gives many\nvaluable lists of books. The very fact that she has had to deal with\nso many books from without as a librarian, has probably prevented her\nknowing so well the inside of the book,\u2014seeing and living with its\nimagery, communing with its spirit and breathing its atmosphere until\nit gives up its deepest meaning. Any treatment of a story that helps\none to visualize, to re-create, to breathe its atmosphere and live its\nspirit, ought to be valuable; the letter killeth, the spirit giveth\nlife. However, her quotations from authors who have done that are many\nand valuable. The one on Homer\u2019s Iliad, page 103, is especially good;\nbut she barely mentions the Odyssey, the more interesting story to\nthe young people. The book is conservative rather than original and\ncreative.\n\n\n ALDINE FIRST LANGUAGE BOOK. For Grades Three and Four. By Catherine T.\n Bryce and Frank E. Spaulding. Price 48 cents.\n\n A MANUAL FOR TEACHERS. To accompany Aldine First Language Book. Price\n 60 cents. Newson & Company, New York.\n\nThese two books, the Manual and the Pupil\u2019s book accompanying it, the\nauthors tell us have grown out of many years\u2019 experiment in teaching\n\u201clanguage\u201d so called.\n\nThe work which the child is called upon to accomplish is, throughout\nthe entire book, based on fables, myths, legends, stories of all kind,\nrhymes and poems, the delight of childhood, all of which are fully\nwithin the range of the child\u2019s understanding and appreciation. The\nvarieties of ways in which these materials are presented arouses the\nkeen interest of the children, stimulates their thought, and quickens\ntheir whole mental life. They discuss freely, they dramatize, they\nreproduce orally and in writing, the work over into new forms, they\nlive and love the contents of stories and poems. No one can read this\npupil\u2019s book without becoming impressed with the tremendous value of\nstory telling as a direct instrument of education. The introduction\nof a comprehensive \u201cTeacher\u2019s Manual\u201d into the class-room, explaining\nthe work to the teacher step by step, seems to be a new and most\nserviceable idea.\n\n\n STORIES OF LONG AGO IN THE PHILIPPINES. By Dudley Odell McGovney, A.M.\n Price forty cents. World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York.\n\n THE STORY READERS\u2019 PRIMER. By May Langdon White. Price thirty-six\n cents. World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York.\n\nThese little stories of ancient days in the Philippines contain such\ninteresting selections as \u201cThe Sea and the Sky,\u201d \u201cThe Bird and the\nBamboo,\u201d \u201cThe Good and the Evil Spirits,\u201d \u201cNaming the Islands,\u201d and\n\u201cManila Long Ago.\u201d These stories have a certain historic value and will\nbe read with interest by children in the United States.\n\nThe Story Readers\u2019 Primer tells of the every day experiences of two\nhappy, healthy children, and makes effective use of the classic stories\nand poems.\n\n\n\n\n                             BIBLIOGRAPHY\n\n\nIn this list of books, Column I gives the price upon receipt of which\nthe book named will be sent post-paid. Column II gives the price upon\nreceipt of which the book named will be sent post-paid together with\nThe Storytellers\u2019 Magazine for one year. Remittances may safely be made\nby Money or Express Order or by draft on New York. All communications\nshould be sent to The Storytellers\u2019 Magazine, 27 West 23d Street,\nNew York, giving the name of the book wanted; the date at which the\nsubscription to The Storytellers\u2019 Magazine should begin, and the name\nand full post-office address of the sender.\n\n\n                           I. Story Telling\n\n                                         Column I        Column II\n                                          Price            Price\n                                      at which Book      of Book and\n                                       will be sent    THE STORYTELLERS\u2019\n                                         post-paid       MAGAZINE for\n                                                            one year\n                                                   Book and\n                                                 STORYTELLERS\u2019\n  BRYANT, Sara Cone.\u2014How to Tell Stories           MAGAZINE\n        to Children.                         1.00   Combined   $1.65\n     Stories to Tell Children.               1.00               1.65\n  HOUGHTON, Louise.\u2014Telling Bible Stories   1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  KEYES.\u2014Stories and Story-Telling.         1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  LYMAN, Edna.\u2014Story-Telling: What to\n        Tell and How to Tell It             0.75        \u201c       1.55\n  PARTRIDGE, E. N. & G. P.\u2014Story-Telling\n        in School and Home.                 1.25        \u201c       1.75\n  WYCHE, R. T.\u2014Some Great Stories and\n        How to Tell Them.                   1.00                1.55\n\n\nII. Bible Stories\n\n  BUNYAN.\u2014Pilgrim\u2019s Progress.               1.00        \u201c       1.65\n  CHISHOLM.\u2014Stories from The Old Testament. 0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  CHURCH.\u2014Story of the Last Days of\n           Jerusalem.                       1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  HODGES.\u2014Saints and Heroes.                1.35        \u201c       1.95\n  KELMAN.\u2014Stories from the Life of Christ.  0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  PENDLETON.\u2014In Assyrian Tents.             0.75        \u201c       1.55\n  SHEPARD.\u2014Young Folks Josephus.            1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  SIVITER.\u2014Nehe, Story of Nehemiah.         1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  TOLSTOI.\u2014Where Love Is\u2014There is God Also. 0.35        \u201c       1.25\n\n\nIII. Epics, Romances and Classic Tales\n\n  ARNOLD.\u2014Sohrab and Rustem.                0.25        \u201c       1.15\n  BALDWIN.\u2014Story of Roland.                 1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  BALDWIN.\u2014Story of Siegfried.              1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  CARPENTER.\u2014Hellenic Tales.                0.60        \u201c       1.45\n  CHURCH.\u2014Odyssey for Boys and Girls.       1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  CHURCH.\u2014Stories of Charlemagne.           1.75        \u201c       2.25\n  CHURCH.\u2014Stories of Homer.                 1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  CRAWFORD.\u2014Tr. the Kalevala, the National\n        Epic of Finland.                    3.00        \u201c       3.50\n  DARTON.\u2014Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims. 1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  DARTON.\u2014Wonder-book of Old Romance.       1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  DAVIDSON.\u2014A Knight Errant\u2014Story of\n        Amadis of Gaul.                     1.75        \u201c       2.25\n  HAVELL.\u2014Stories from Don Quixote.         1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  HIGGINSON.\u2014Tales of the Enchanted\n        Islands of the Atlantic             1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  HOLBROOK.\u2014Northland Heroes.               0.35        \u201c       1.25\n  HULL.\u2014The Boy\u2019s Cuchulain-Irish Hero\n        Legends.                            1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  IRVING.\u2014Tales from the Alhambra.          0.60        \u201c       1.40\n  LANG, A.\u2014Book of Romance.                 1.60        \u201c       2.15\n  LANG, Andrew.\u2014\u201cTales of Troy and\n        Greece.\u201d                            1.00        \u201c       1.65\n  LANG, L. B.\u2014Red Book of Heroes.           1.60        \u201c       2.15\n  LANIER.\u2014The Boy\u2019s King Arthur.            2.00        \u201c       2.45\n  MABIE.\u2014Heroes Every Child Should\n        Know.                               0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  MACLEOD.\u2014Book of King Arthur, etc.\n        (Inexpensive edition.)              1.00        \u201c       1.65\n  MACLEOD.\u2014Book of King Arthur and His\n        Noble Knights.                      1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  MACLEOD.\u2014Stories from the Faerie Queene   1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  MCSPADDEN.\u2014Stories from Wagner.           0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  MCSPADDEN.\u2014Stories from Chaucer.          0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  MARSHALL.\u2014Stories of Beowulf.             0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  MARSHALL.\u2014Stories of Childe Roland.       0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  MARSHALL.\u2014Story of William Tell.          0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  MORRIS.\u2014Story of Sigurd the Volsung.      2.00        \u201c       2.45\n  PALMER.\u2014Tr. Odyssey of Homer.             1.00        \u201c       1.65\n  PYLE.\u2014Story of King Arthur and his Knights. 2.00      \u201c       2.45\n  PYLE.\u2014Story of Launcelot and his Companions.2.00      \u201c       2.45\n  PYLE.\u2014Some Merry Adventures of Robin\n          Hood. (Condensed)                 0.50        \u201c       1.30\n  PYLE.\u2014Merry Adventures of Robin Hood      3.00        \u201c       3.30\n  RAGOZIN.\u2014Frithj and Roland.               1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  RAGOZIN.\u2014Siegfried and Beowulf.           1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  ROYDE-SMITH.\u2014Una and the Red Cross Knight.2.50        \u201c       2.85\n  TEGNER.\u2014Frithiof\u2019s Saga.                  1.25        \u201c       1.85\n  TINKER.\u2014Beowulf. Tr. by Tinker.           1.00        \u201c       1.65\n  WILMOT-BUXTON.\u2014Stories of Persian Heroes. 1.50        \u201c       2.10\n  WILSON.\u2014The Story of the Cid.             1.25        \u201c       1.85\n\n\nIV. Fables, Myths, Heroes and Folk Lore\n\n  \u00c6SOP\u2019S FABLES.\u2014Ed. by Joseph Jacobs.        1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  ANDERSEN.\u2014Wonder Stories.                   1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  AUSTIN.\u2014The Basket Woman\u2014Ute Indian Tales.  1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  BALDWIN.\u2014Story of the Golden Age.           1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  BALDWIN.\u2014Wonder-book of Horses.             0.75       \u201c      1.60\n  BLUMENTHAL.\u2014Folk Tales from the Russians    0.60       \u201c      1.45\n  BRADISH.\u2014Old Norse Stories.                 0.45       \u201c      1.28\n  BROWN.\u2014In the Days of Giants.               1.10       \u201c      1.85\n  BRYCE.\u2014Fables from Afar.                    0.45       \u201c      1.28\n          Short Stories for Little Folks.     0.35       \u201c      1.20\n  BRYCE.\u2014That\u2019s Why Stories.                  0.45       \u201c      1.28\n  DASENT.\u2014Popular Tales from the Norse.       2.50       \u201c      2.85\n  GRIFFIS.\u2014The Fire-Fly\u2019s Lovers, Japanese\n          Folk Tales.                         1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  GRIMM.\u2014Household Stories. Tr. by Crane.     1.00       \u201c      1.70\n  HAWTHORNE.\u2014Wonderbook and Tanglewood Tales. 1.00       \u201c      1.70\n  HARRIS.\u2014Uncle Remus and His Friends.        1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  HARRIS.\u2014Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings. 2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  KINGSLEY.\u2014Heroes of Greek Fairy Tales.      1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  KUPFER.\u2014Legends of Greece and Rome.         0.75       \u201c      1.60\n  LAGERL\u00d6F.\u2014Swedish Folk Tales.               1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  LANG, Andrew.\u2014True Story Book.              2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  MABIE.\u2014Norse Stories Retold from The Eddas. 1.25       \u201c      1.75\n  PEABODY.\u2014Old Greek Folk Stories.            0.25       \u201c      1.15\n  RAMASWAMI, Raju.\u2014Indian Fables.             1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  ROULET-NIXON.\u2014Japanese Folk Stories\n          and Fairy Tales.                    0.40       \u201c      1.25\n  SCUDDER.\u2014Children\u2019s Book.                   2.50       \u201c      2.85\n  STORR.\u2014Half-a-Hundred Hero Tales.           1.35       \u201c      1.95\n  WIGGIN & SMITH.\u2014Tales of Laughter.          1.35       \u201c      1.95\n  WIGGIN & SMITH.\u2014Tales of Wonder.            1.50       \u201c      1.95\n  ZITKALA-SA.\u2014Old Indian Legends.             0.60       \u201c      1.40\n\n\nV. Fairy Tales\u2014Old and New\n\n  ANDERSEN.\u2014Fairy Tales. Tr. by Mrs. Lucas.   2.50       \u201c      2.85\n  ANDERSEN.\u2014Fairy Tales. Vol. I.              0.40       \u201c      1.25\n    Vol. II.                                  0.40       \u201c      1.25\n  ANDERSEN.\u2014Stories and Tales.                0.30       \u201c      1.20\n  ASBJORNSEN.\u2014Fairy Tales from the Far\n          North (Burt).                       1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  BALDWIN.\u2014Fairy Stories and Fables.          0.35       \u201c      1.25\n  BAIN.\u2014Russian Fairy Tales.                  0.00       \u201c      1.65\n  BAIN.\u2014Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.   0.00       \u201c      1.65\n  CARY.\u2014Fairy Legends of the French\n          Provinces.                          0.60       \u201c      1.45\n  CHISHOLM.\u2014In Fairy Land.                    3.00       \u201c      3.30\n  COMPTON.\u2014American Indian Fairy Tales.       1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  CRAIK.\u2014The Fairy Book.                      0.50       \u201c      1.30\n  DOLE.\u2014Russian Fairy Book.                   2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  GRIMM.\u2014Fairy Tales. Tr. by Mrs. Lucas.\n          Ill. by Arthur Rackham.             1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  JACOBS.\u2014Celtic Fairy Tales.                 1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  JACOBS.\u2014More Celtic Fairy Tales.            1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  JACOBS.\u2014English Fairy Tales.                1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  JACOBS.\u2014More English Fairy Tales.           1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  JACOBS.\u2014Indian Fairy Tales.                 1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  LANG, Andrew.\u2014Blue True Story Book.         2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  LANG, Andrew.\u2014Crimson Fairy Book.           1.60       \u201c      2.15\n  MACDONNELL.\u2014Italian Fairy Book.             1.35       \u201c      1.90\n  OZAKI.\u2014Japanese Fairy Book.                 1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  RHYS.\u2014Fairy Gold.                           0.70       \u201c      1.55\n  WILLISTON.\u2014Japanese Fairy Tales.            0.75       \u201c      1.55\n\n\nVI. History, Biography, Travel and Adventure\n\n  ABBOTT.\u2014Daniel Boone.                       1.25       \u201c      1.85\n          Christopher Carson, Known as Kit\n            Carson.                           1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  ABBOTT.\u2014David Crockett.                     1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  AMBROSI.\u2014When I was a Girl in Italy.        0.75       \u201c      1.55\n  BARNES.\u2014Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors.    0.50       \u201c      1.30\n  BOLTON.\u2014Lives of Poor Boys Who Became\n            Famous.                           1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  BOYESEN.\u2014Boyhood in Norway.                 1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  BROOKS.\u2014Story of Marco Polo.                1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  BROOKS.\u2014True Story of Christopher Columbus. 1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  BUTTERWORTH.\u2014Zigzag Journeys around\n          the World. Per vol.                 1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  CARPENTER.\u2014Asia.                            0.60       \u201c      1.45\n  CARPENTER.\u2014South America.                   0.60       \u201c      1.45\n  CHURCH.\u2014Stories of the East from Herodotus. 1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  CUSTER (Mrs).\u2014Boy General. Story of\n          the Life of Major-General George\n          A. Custer.                          0.50       \u201c      1.40\n  DANA.\u2014Two Years Before the Mast\n          (University).                       1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  DU CHAILLU.\u2014Country of the Dwarfs.          1.25       \u201c      1.85\n          Lost in the Jungle.                 1.25       \u201c      1.85\n          My Apingi Kingdom.                  1.25       \u201c      1.85\n          Stories of the Gorilla Country.     1.25       \u201c      1.85\n          Wild Life Under The Equator.        1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  DUTTON.\u2014Little Stories of Germany.          0.40       \u201c      1.25\n  GARLAND.\u2014Boy Life on the Prairie.           1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  GIBSON.\u2014In Eastern Wonder-Lands.            1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  GOLDING.\u2014Story of David Livingston.         0.50       \u201c      1.30\n  HAWTHORNE.\u2014Biographical Stories.            0.25       \u201c      1.15\n  JENKS.\u2014Boy\u2019s Book of Explorations.          2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  JOHNSTON AND SPENCER.\u2014Ireland\u2019s Story       1.40       \u201c      2.05\n  KINGSLEY.\u2014Westward Ho!                      0.60       \u201c      1.45\n  KNOX.\u2014Boy Travellers in Great Britain\n          and Ireland.                        2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  MABIE.\u2014Heroines Every Child Should Know.    0.50       \u201c      1.30\n  MCMANUS.\u2014Our Little Hindu Cousin.           0.60       \u201c      1.40\n  MACGREGOR.\u2014Story of France.                 2.50       \u201c      2.85\n  PARKMAN.\u2014Oregon Trail.                      0.40       \u201c      1.25\n  ROOSEVELT AND LODGE.\u2014Hero Tales\n          from American History.              1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  ROOSEVELT.\u2014Ranch Life and the Hunting\n               Trail.                         2.50       \u201c      2.85\n  SCHWATKA.\u2014Children of the Cold.             1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  STARR.\u2014American Indians.                    0.45       \u201c      1.30\n  TAPPAN.\u2014Story of the Greek People.          1.50       \u201c      2.00\n           Story of the Roman People.         1.50       \u201c      2.00\n  VAN BERGEN.\u2014Story of Russia.                0.65       \u201c      1.50\n  WHITE.\u2014The Magic Forest.                    0.50       \u201c      1.30\n  YOUNGE.\u2014Book of Golden Deeds.               1.00       \u201c      1.55\n\n\nVII. Stories of Humor\n\n  ADELBORG.\u2014Clean Peter.                      1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  BAUM.\u2014Father Goose.                         1.25       \u201c      1.85\n          Wizard of Oz.                       1.25       \u201c      1.85\n  BURGESS.\u2014Goops, and How to be Them.         1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  CARROLL.\u2014Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland.  0.60       \u201c      1.45\n          Through the Looking Glass.          0.60       \u201c      1.45\n  CHAMNEY (Mrs.).\u2014Paddy O\u2019Leary, and\n          his Learned Pig.                    1.00       \u201c      1.65\n  HALE.\u2014Peterkin Papers.                      1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  HARRIS.\u2014Nights with Uncle Remus.            1.50       \u201c      2.10\n  LEAR.\u2014Nonsense Songs.                       2.00       \u201c      2.45\n  PAINE.\u2014Arkansaw Bear.                       1.00       \u201c      1.65\n\n\n\n\n                  THE NATIONAL STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n          HOME OFFICE: 27 West Twenty-third Street, New York\n\n\n                               OFFICERS\n\n                      Richard T. Wyche, President\n                        27 West 23d St., N.\u202fY.\n\n                  James H. Van Sickle, Vice President\n             Superintendent of Schools, Springfield, Mass.\n\n                        R. M. Hodge, Secretary\n                       552 West 113th St., N.\u202fY.\n\n                       W. H. Keister, Treasurer\n             Superintendent of Schools, Harrisonburg, Va.\n\n\n       _Origin of the Story Tellers\u2019 League Movement in America_\n\n\nOne time some half a hundred people gathered on a lawn at twilight at\nthe close of a summer\u2019s day, to tell stories, to sit on the grass, to\nrelax, rest and commune with those spiritual forces that lie dormant\nin literature and in nature until touched by living and creative\npersonalities. We were a group of teachers attending the Summer School\nof the South at the University of Tennessee. Twice a week these\nmeetings were held with an informal program of stories and the singing\nof familiar national melodies. At the close of that session of the\nschool, numbering over two thousand teachers, a formal organization was\nmade which afterward became the National Story Tellers\u2019 League. That\nwas July, 1903, and marked the beginning of the Story Tellers\u2019 League\nmovement in America.\n\nSince that time the movement has grown until many local leagues have\nsprung up all over the United States. The purpose of the whole movement\nin a word is the told story, oral literature, with the young people\nalways in view.\n\n\n\n\n                        STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUES\n\n\nTHE STORYTELLERS\u2019 MAGAZINE publishes for the convenience of those\ninterested in the story telling movement a finding list of Story\nTellers\u2019 Leagues throughout the United States. Correspondence is\ninvited in order to supply omissions caused by lack of information so\nthat the MAGAZINE may be made as complete as possible.\n\nLeagues marked with a * publish Year Books.\n\n\nALABAMA\n\n  BIRMINGHAM\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care J. H. Phillips, Supt. Birmingham Public Schools\n\n  MONTEVALLO\n  *ALABAMA GIRLS\u2019 TECHNICAL INSTITUTE STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Myrtle Brooke, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, Cor. _Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Alabama Girls\u2019 Technical Institute, Montevallo, Ala.\n\n  TUSCUMBIA\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Rayner Tillman, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care Public Schools, Tuscumbia, Ala.\n\n\nARKANSAS\n\n  LITTLE ROCK\n  *STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Grace Boyce, _President_\n    Miss Dora Hooper, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care Superintendent CitySchools, Little Rock, Ark.\n\n\nCOLORADO\n\n  DENVER\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Edwina Fallis, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.O. Address\u2014637 Franklin St., Denver, Col.\n\n\nCONNECTICUT\n\n  HARTFORD\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Prof. E. P. St. John, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Hartford School Religious Pedagogy, Hartford, Conn.\n\n\nGEORGIA\n\n  ATHENS\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Prof. D. L. Earnest, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014State Normal, Athens, Ga.\n\n  ATLANTA\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Mrs. Charles Goodman, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care Milton, Bradley & Co., Atlanta, Ga.\n\n  DALTON\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Mr. J. B. Lucas, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Supt. City Schools, Dalton, Ga.\n\n\nILLINOIS\n\n  BLOOMINGTON\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    Mrs. Perry B. Johnson, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014402 West Chestnut St.,\n    Bloomington, Ill.\n\n  CARBONDALE\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Fadra R. Holmes, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014State Normal School, Carbondale, Ill.\n\n  CHICAGO\n  *STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE, (Chicago Branch Natl. S.\u202fT.\u202fL.)\n    Miss Alice O\u2019Grady, _President_\n    Miss Grace Hemingway, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014444 N. Park Ave, Oak Park, Ill.\n\n\n  DECATUR STORY CLUB\n  Miss Laura B. Smith, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014657 W. Main St., Decatur, Ill.\n\n  NORMAL\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE, Normal University\n    Frances Foote, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Normal University, Normal, Ill.\n\n  ROCKFORD\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 CLUB\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014\n\n\nIOWA\n\n  DES MOINES\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Jeanette Ezekiels, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Kindergarten Dept., Drake University, Des Moines, Ia.\n\n\nKANSAS\n\n  TOPEKA\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Linna E. Bresette, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014506 Polk St., Topeka, Kan.\n\n\nKENTUCKY\n\n  COVINGTON\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Lily Southgate, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014High School, Covington, Ky.\n\n  FORT THOMAS\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    Miss Bessie J. White, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Southgate Ave., Fort Thomas, Ky.\n\n  LOUISVILLE\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Nannie Lee Frayser, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014University School, Louisville, Ky.\n\n  NEWPORT\n  CAMPBELL COUNTY STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    Miss Florence Savage, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u201436 Home Ave., Newport, Ky.\n\n\nLOUISIANA\n\n  NEW ORLEANS\n  *STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Eleanor Payne, _President_\n    Miss Ida Barnett, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u20141631 Octavia St., New Orleans, La.\n\n  SHREVEPORT\n\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Pearl Fortson, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014High School, Shreveport, La.\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS\n\n  WORCESTER\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 CLUB\n    Miss Edna Collamore, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u201440 Merrick St., Worcester, Mass.\n\n\nMICHIGAN\n\n  ADRIAN\n  *STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    Miss Fanny Rich, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care Public Library, Adrian, Mich.\n\n  BIG RAPIDS\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE, Ferris Institute Summer School.\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Ferris Institute Summer School, Big Rapids, Mich.\n\n  CALUMET\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Mrs. Robert Wetzel, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care C. & H. Library, Calumet, Mich.\n\n  DETROIT\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Mary Conover, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Children\u2019s Room. Public Library,\n    Detroit, Mich.\n\n\nMISSOURI\n\n  ST. JOSEPH\n  *ST. JOSEPH STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Martina Martin, _President_\n    Miss Georgiana Behne, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014503 Antoine St., St. Joseph, Mo.\n\n\nMISSISSIPPI\n\n  BLUE MOUNTAIN\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Jennie Hardy, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain, Miss.\n\n  COLUMBUS\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Rosa B. Knox, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Normal Institute, Columbus, Miss.\n\n\nMONTANA\n\n  BOZEMAN\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Mrs. R. J. Cunninghan, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Bozeman, Mont.\n\n  DILLON\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Florence Mayer, _President_\n    Miss Susie Karas, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014State Normal, Dillon, Mont.\n\n  HELENA\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    J. W. Curtis, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Care City Schools, Helena, Mont.\n\n\nNEBRASKA\n\n  OMAHA\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    \u2014\u2014, _President_\n    Miss Josephine Grant, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014518 Park Ave., Omaha, Neb.\n  *WYCHE STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Ida M. Crowell, _President_\n    Miss Mary Krebs, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u20141332 S. 25th Ave., Omaha, Neb.\n\n  LINCOLN\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE, Nebraska State Teachers\u2019 Association\n    Miss Cleland, _President_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014Lincoln, Neb.\n\n\nNEW YORK\n\n  BROOKLYN\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Miss Charlotte Savage, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u201497 Lawrence St., Brooklyn, N. Y.\n\n  NEW YORK CITY\n  STORY TELLERS\u2019 LEAGUE\n    Mrs. E. D. Burt, _President_\n    \u2014\u2014, _Cor. Secretary_\n    P.\u202fO. Address\u2014500 West 122d St., New York\n  INFORMAL FIRESIDE STORY TELLING CIRCLE\n    Miss L. A. 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HERVEY.\n  Illustrated. 95 pp. 30 cents.\n\nSnappy and Spitfire are a dog and a cat who become dissatisfied with\ntheir surroundings and decide to run away. Their various adventures\nmake an amusing and interesting book for children. It was designed\nparticularly to be used at that important stage when children are ready\nto begin the independent practice of the most delightful of all arts,\nthe art of finding stories in books. The simplicity of plot and general\ncontent are admirably suited to the needs and abilities of six-year-old\nreaders.\n\n =INDIAN SKETCHES=\n By CORNELIA STEKETEE HULST. Illustrated. 120 pages. 60 cents.\n\nNew material, drawn from the beautiful and heroic stories of the\nNorthwest Territory, has been worked up with the aim of presenting\nthe Indian in a much pleasanter and fairer light than is usual in\nliterature. Social and racial customs, the dances of the various\nseasons, etc., are described. Parents and teachers of younger children\nwill find these \u201cSketches\u201d interesting and historically accurate.\n\n =IN OLDEST ENGLAND=\n By GEORGE PHILIP KRAPP. Illustrated. 173 pp. 60 cents.\n\nA collection of well-chosen stories which represent old English life.\nTales of adventure, accounts of battles, vivid descriptions of their\nhomes and dress, all serve to make real this distant period. The story\nof the beginnings of the English people up to the Norman Conquest is\ngiven, and the heroic characters of those times are brought to view in\na setting altogether new.\n\n =THE MAGIC SPEECH FLOWER=\n By MELVIN HIX. Illustrated. 179 pp. 35 cents.\n\nThis is the story of a little boy who was kind to animals, and, because\nof his goodness to them, gained the power to understand and to speak\nthe speech of the animal folk. Thus he hears from them all about their\nhabits and they tell him many interesting legends of the woods. Most of\nthe stories are new and they are told in simple language which can be\nread by children of eight or nine years of age.\n\n =HISTORICAL PLAYS OF COLONIAL DAYS=\n By LOUISE E. TUCKER and ESTELLE L.  RYAN. Twenty-six plays. With\n full-page Frontispiece. 163 pp. 65 cents.\n\nThis book makes history real by lifting it into a dramatic presentation\nfaithfully reproducing people and events in colonial times in America.\nIt teaches history in its pleasantest form. All of the plays have been\nacted over and over again by children nine or ten years old. They also\nimmensely enjoy reading the plays without acting. 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