# The Art of Story-Telling Author: Shedlock, Marie L., 1854-1935; Adams, John, 1857-1934 [Author of introduction, etc.] Genre: Category: How To ... Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61340 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Art+of+Story-Telling+Shedlock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary THOSE who do not love schoolmasters tell us that the man who can do something supremely well contents himself with doing it, while the man who cannot do it very well must needs set about showing other people how it should be done. The masters in any craft are prone to magnify their gifts by maintaining that the poet--or the stove-pipe maker--is born, not made. Teachers will accordingly be gratified to find in the following pages the work of a lady who is at the same time a brilliant executant and an admirable expositor. Miss Shedlock stands in the very first rank of story-tellers. No one can claim with greater justice that the gift of Scheherazade is hers by birthright. Yet she has recogn... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter I. THE DIFFICULTIES OF STORY-TELLING CONNECTED WITH LIBRARIES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-art-of-story-telling-61340/chapters/3/index.md)