Pittsburgh and Chicago listened and heard, if sometimes indistinctly,
the notes of universal appeal, and children saw the Arabian Nights
come true.

Yielding to the appeals of her friends in America and England, Miss
Shedlock has put together in this little book such observations and
suggestions on story-telling as can be put in words. Those who have
the artist's spirit will find their sense of values quickened by her
words, and they will be led to escape some of the errors into which
even the greatest artists fall. And even those who tell stories with
their minds will find in these papers wise generalizations and
suggestions born of wide experience and extended study which well go
far towards making even an artificial nightingale's song less
mechanical. To those who know, the book is a revelation of the
intimate relation between a child's instincts and the finished art of
dramatic presentation. To those who do not know it will bring echoes
of reality.
Earl Barnes.




CONTENTS.


PART I. THE ART OF STORY-TELLING.

CHAPTER.

I. THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE STORY.