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THE ART OF STORY-TELLING
THE ARTOF STORY-TELLING
By MARIE L. SHEDLOCK
WITH A PREFACE BY
Professor JOHN ADAMS
CHAIR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1915
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter | I. | The Difficulties of Story-Telling connectedwith Libraries and Clubs | 6 |
| ” | II. | The Essentials of Story-Telling | 25 |
| ” | III. | The Artifices of Story-Telling | 32 |
| ” | IV. | Elements to Avoid | 42 |
| ” | V. | Elements to Seek | 61 |
| ” | VI. | How to Obtain and Maintain the Effect | 89 |
| ” | VII. | Questions and Answers | 117 |
| ” | VIII. | List of Stories Told in Full | 138 |
| List of Titles of Individual Stories andof Collections of Stories | 210 | ||
| Index | 235 | ||
PREFACE.
By Professor John Adams,
Chair of Education, University of London.
Those who do not love schoolmasters tell us that theman who can do something supremely well contentshimself with doing it, while the man who cannot doit very well must needs set about showing otherpeople how it should be done. The masters in anycraft are prone to magnify their gifts by maintainingthat the poet—or the stove-pip