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Short-story, fairy tale as, 70–87: elements of, 70–71; ways of writing, 71; characters, 71–73; plot, 73–77; narration in, 74–75; description in, 75; setting, 77–82; elements of, blended, 82–84. Tales tested as, 84–87; telling of, 90–154.

Silhouette pictures, cutting of, 130–31.

Simple and sincere, 28–29.

Sincerity, principle of, 58–59; illustrated in: Oeyvind and Marit, 60, 61; Three Billy-Goats Gruff, 64–65.

Sindibad, The Book of, 172.

Sleeping Beauty, romantic type, 231–32; uniting partial narration, dramatization, and dramatic game, 146–47.

Snow White, 145, 266–67.

Snow White and Rose Red, 232, 282–86.

Song, as expression, 132–33.

Soul, in literature, 39–40.

Sources of material for fairy tales, 245–64: list of fairy tales and folk-tales, 246–53; bibliography of fairy tales, 253–54; list of picture-books, 254–55; list of pictures, 255; list of fairy poems, 255–56; main standard fairy-tale books, 256–58; fairy tales of all nations, 258–59; miscellaneous editions of fairy tales, 259–62; school editions of fairy tales, 262–64.

Sparrow and the Crow, as expression, 125–26.

Spider and the Flea, 79–81.

Standards, for testing fairy tales, 84; for selecting tales, 204–05; for making lists, 245–46. See Summaries.

Standard fairy-tale books, a list, 256–58.

Story, place of, in home, library, and school, 93–94; formation of original stories, 126–27.

Story-telling, an ancient art, 91–93; principles governing, 94; teacher's preparation for, 94–102; rules for, 94–102; presentation in, 102–119; voice in, 103–04; breathing in, 104–05; gesture in, 105–06; re-creative method of, 113–17; return from child, in, 119–54; child's part in, 121–25.

Straparola, 178.

Straparola's Nights, 178.

Straw Ox, 86–87.

Structure, illustrated, 76–77; study of, in story-telling, 99–100.

Study of tale as folk-lore and as literature, 96–99.

Style, defined, 59–60; illustrated, 60–65; qualities of, 59–60; principles controlling, 59–60.

Success, 20.

Suggestion, illustrated by Pope, 55; by Andersen, 136; by Kipling, 56–57; through gesture and sound, 55; through arrangement of words and speech-tunes of voice, 56–57.

Summaries: giving message of book. 13, 37–38, 40, 70–71, 84, 158, 204–05, 235.

Surprise, 15–17.

Swedish tales, 193.

Tales: of Mother Goose, 179–81; of Perrault, 246; of the Grimms, 246–47; Norse, 247; English, by Jacobs, 247–48; modern fairy, by Andersen, 248; Uncle Remus, 248–49; miscellaneous, 249–53; fairy, of all nations, 258–59; literary collections of, 170–200. See Fairy tales.

Teaching, story-telling, a part of the art of, 119–25; poetry of, 120; good art in, 120; great art in, 120–21; a criticism of life, 120–21.

Telling, of fairy tales, 90–154;