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All of the following books contain excellent material for the story-teller. While some of the stories are not perfectly adapted in form for telling, the best of them can be used with comparatively little change.

The list is not by any means comprehensive, but the books mentioned will abundantly reward the story-teller's search.

MELODIES AND FOLK TALES

—edited by W. A. Wheeler —translated by Isaac T. Headland —Jacobs —Scudder —Eugene Fields —R. L. Stevenson —Edward Lear

ETHICAL STORIES

—Mrs. Gatty —Carolyn Sherwin Bailey —Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

NATURE STORIES

—Selma Lagerlof. —Selma Lagerlof —Olive Thorne Miller