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The following is a list of valuable sources for the story-teller, all
yielding either good original material for adaptation, or stories which
need only a slight alteration in the telling.[1]

[Footnote 1: Readers may be interested in _A History of Story-telling_, by
Arthur Ransome. (Jack.)]

THE BIBLE.
MOTHER GOOSE'S MELODY. (Bullen.)
THE STORY HOUR, by _Kate Douglas Wiggin_. (Gay & Hancock.)
STORIES FOR KINDERGARTEN. (Ginn.)
ST NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, bound volumes. (Warne.)
LITTLE FOLKS, bound volumes. (Cassell.)
FABLES AND NURSERY TALES, edited by _Prof. Charles Eliot Norton_. (Heath.)
STORIES TO TELL THE LITTLEST ONES, by _Sara Gone Bryant_. (Harrap.)
MOTHER STORIES, by _Maud Lindsay_. (Harrap.)
MORE MOTHER STORIES, by _Maud Lindsay_. (Harrap.)
AESOP'S FABLES.
STORIES TO TELL TO CHILDREN, by _Sara Cone Bryant_. (Harrap.)
THE BOOK OF STORIES FOR THE STORY-TELLER, by _Fanny Coe_. (Harrap.)
SONGS AND STORIES FOR THE LITTLE ONES, by _Gordon Browne_. (Harrap.)
CHARACTER TRAINING (stories with an ethical bearing),
by _E.L. Cabot_ and _E. Eyles_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FOR THE STORY HOUR, by _Ada M. Marzials_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FOR THE HISTORY HOUR, by _Nannie Niemeyer_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FOR THE BIBLE HOUR, by _R. Brimley Johnson_. (Harrap.)
NATURE STORIES TO TELL TO CHILDREN, by _H. Waddingham Seers_. (Harrap.)
OLD TIME TALES, by _Florence Dugdale_. (Collins.)
THE MABINOGION. (Dent.)
PERCY'S RELIQUES. (Warne.)

TOLD THROUGH THE AGES SERIES. (Harrap.)
LEGENDS OF GREECE AND ROME, by _G.H. Kupfer, M.A._
FAVOURITE GREEK MYTHS, by _L.S. Hyde_.
STORIES OF ROBIN HOOD, by _J.W. McSpadden_.
STORIES OF KING ARTHUR, by _U.W. Cutler._
STORIES FROM GREEK HISTORY, by _H.L. Havell, B.A._
STORIES FROM WAGNER, by _J.W. McSpadden_.
BRITAIN LONG AGO (stories from old English and Celtic sources),
by _E.M. Wilmot-Buxton, F.R.Hist.S._
STORIES FROM SCOTTISH HISTORY (selected from "Tales of a Grandfather"),
by _Madalen Edgar, M.A._
STORIES FROM GREEK TRAGEDY, by _H.L. Havell, B.A._
STORIES FROM THE EARTHLY PARADISE, by _Madalen Edgar, M.A._
STORIES FROM CHAUCER, by _J.W. McSpadden_.
STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, by _Mrs S. Platt_.
TOLD BY THE NORTHMEN (stories from the Norse eddas and sagas),
by _E.M. Wilmot-Buxton, F.R.Hist.S_.
STORIES FROM DON QUIXOTE, by _H.L. Havell, B.A._
THE STORY OF ROLAND AND THE PEERS OF CHARLEMAGNE, by _James Baldwin_.

(Teachers in need of good stories should keep themselves acquainted with
the development of this series, as fresh volumes are constantly added.
The material is precisely the right kind for the story-teller, since the
stories have come to us from distant days when, as the national
inheritance of this race or that, they were told in homely cabins by
parents to their children, or sung by bards to festive companies.)

STORIES OF THE ENGLISH, by _F_. (Blackwood.)
OLD GREEK FOLK STORIES, by _Josephine Peabody_. (Harrap.)
RED CAP TALES, by _S.R. Crockett_. (Black.)
A CHILD'S BOOK OF SAINTS, by _Wm. Canton_. (Dent.)
CUCHULAIN, THE HOUND OF ULSTER, by _Eleanor Hull_. (Harrap.)
THE HIGH DEEDS OF FINN, by _T.W. Rolleston, M.A._ (Harrap.)
THE BOOK OF THE EPIC, by _H.A. Guerber_. (Harrap.)
THE MYTHS OF GREECE AND ROME, by _H.A. Guerber_. (Harrap.)
MYTHS OF THE NORSEMEN, by _H.A. Guerber_. (Harrap.)
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, by _H.A. Guerber_. (Harrap.)
HERO-MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE BRITISH RACE,
by _M.I. Ebbutt, M.A._ (Harrap.)
THE MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER.
GLEANINGS IN BUDDHA-FIELDS, by _Lafcadio Hearn_. (Kegan Paul.)
THE GOLDEN WINDOWS, by _Laura E. Richards_. (Allenson.)
HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES.
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES.
ENGLISH FAIRY TALES, by _Joseph Jacobs_. (Nutt.)
FOLK-TALES FROM MANY LANDS, by _Lilian Gask_. (Harrap.)
CELTIC FAIRY TALES, by _Joseph Jacobs_. (Nutt.)
INDIAN FAIRY TALES, by _Joseph Jacobs_. (Nutt.)
WEST AFRICAN FOLK-TALES, by _W.H. Barker_ and _C. Sinclair_. (Harrap.)
RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES, by _R. Nisbet Bain_. (Harrap.)
COSSACK FAIRY TALES, by _R. Nisbet Bain_. (Harrap.)
THE HAPPY PRINCE, by _Oscar Wilde_. (Nutt.)
DONEGAL FAIRY TALES, by _Seumas McManus_.
IN CHIMNEY CORNERS, by _Seumas McManus_.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK (and others), by _Andrew Lang_. (Longmans.)
FAIRY STORIES, by _John Finnemore_. (S.S. Union.)
THE JAPANESE FAIRY BOOK. (Constable.)
FAIRY TALES FROM FAR JAPAN, translated by _Susan Bollard_.
(Religious Tract Society.)
IN THE CHILD'S WORLD. (Philip.)
LEGENDS FROM FAIRYLAND, by _Holme Lee_. (Warne.)
THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, by _John Ruskin_. (Grant Allen.)
THE WELSH FAIRY BOOK, by _Jenkyn Thomas_. (Unwin.)
AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND, by _George Macdonald_. (Blackie.)
TELL-ME-WHY STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS, by _C.H. Claudy_. (Harrap.)
TELL-ME-WHY STORIES ABOUT GREAT DISCOVERIES, by _C.H. Claudy_. (Harrap.)
UNCLE REMUS, by _Joel Chandler Harris_. (Routledge.)
MACAULAY'S LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME.
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR, by _Sir Thomas Malory_. (Macmillan.)
THE BOY'S FROISSART, by _Henry Newbolt_. (Macmillan.)
STORIES FROM DANTE, by _Susan Cunnington_. (Harrap.)
THE JUNGLE BOOKS, by _Rudyard Kipling_. (Macmillan.)
JUST SO STORIES, by _Rudyard Kipling_. (Macmillan.)
WOOD MAGIC, by _Richard Jefferies_. (Longmans.)
AMONG THE FARMYARD PEOPLE, by _Clara D. Pierson_. (Murray.)
AMONG THE NIGHT PEOPLE, by _Clara D. Pierson_. (Murray.)
AMONG THE MEADOW PEOPLE, by _Clara D. Pierson_. (Murray.)
THE ANIMAL STORY BOOK, by _Andrew Lang_. (Longmans.)
WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN, by _Ernest Thompson Seton_. (Nutt.)
A BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS, by _Florence Holbrook_. (Harrap.)
MORE NATURE MYTHS, by _F.V. Farmer_. (Harrap.)
PARABLES FROM NATURE, by _Mrs A. Gatty_. (Bell.)
NORTHERN TRAILS, by _W.J. Long_. (Ginn.)
THE KINDRED OF THE WILD, by _Chas. G.D. Roberts_. (Duckworth.)
RAB AND HIS FRIENDS, by _Dr John Brown_.
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, by _R.L. Stevenson_. (Longmans.)
A TREASURY OF VERSE FOR LITTLE CHILDREN,
compiled by _Madalen Edgar, M.A._ (Harrap.)
A TREASURY OF VERSE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS,
compiled by _Madalen Edgar, M.A._ (Harrap.)
A TREASURY OF BALLADS, compiled by _Madalen Edgar, M.A._ (Harrap.)
BIMBI, by _Ouida_. (Chatto.)
STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE, by _Dr Thomas Carter_. (Harrap.)
STORIES FROM THE FAERIE QUEENE, by _Laurence H. Dawson_. (Harrap.)
MORAL TALES, by _Maria Edgeworth_. (Macmillan.)