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Supplementary List. SPRING STORIES. What 

 Was. Her Name? (Richards' Five Minute 

 Stories) ; Little Ida's Flowers (Andersen) ; 

 Legend of the Arbutus. 



SUMMER STORIES. Rhoecus (adapted from 

 Lowell's poem) ; King of the Golden River 

 (Ruskin) ; Five Peas in a Pod (Andersen) ; the 

 story of Joan of Arc ; Horatius at the Bridge 

 (from Macaulay's poem). 



AUTUMN STORIES. The story of Ruth (from 

 the Bible) ; The First Thanksgiving; the story 

 of Arachne (Greek myth) ; Baucis and Phile- 

 mon (Greek myth) ; The Discontented Stone- 

 cutter (Japanese legend). 



WINTER STORIES. Parts of Dickens' Christmas 

 Carol; The Happy Prince (Oscar Wilde) ; the 

 Christmas story (from the Bible) : The Birds' 

 Christmas Carol (Riggs) ; How the Fir Tree 

 Became the Christmas Tree. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes will be helpful in connection with 

 this article on story-telling: 

 Aladdin Fiction 



Ali Baba Games and Plays 



Alice's Adventures in Hiawatha 



Wonderland Language 



Arabian Nights Legend 



Bible, subhead The Literature, subtitles 



Bible for Children Literature for Children 



Bluebeard and Graded Lists for 



Cinderella Study 



Drama, subtitle Shake- Mother Goose 



spearean Drama in Mythology 



Schools Novel 



Fable Rip Van Winkle 



Fairies Robinson Crusoe 



STOSS, shtohs, VEIT (about 1440-1533), one 

 of the greatest masters of wood carving Ger- 

 many has ever produced, and a famous sculp- 

 tor. Many of the statements given about his 

 life are a matter of doubt, but it is believed 

 that he was born and educated at Nuremberg; 

 it is known that he practiced his profession 

 alternately in that city and in Cracow. Most 

 of his creations are religious in character, and 

 they show a depth of spiritual understanding 

 rare among artists of his time. Stoss's works 

 may be seen in cathedrals and public buildings 

 in various parts of Germany. Among the most 

 notable of his wood carvings are the high altar 

 in the Church of Saint Mary's, Cracow, and The 

 Angel's Salutation in the Nuremberg Church 

 of Saint Lawrence. His sculptured stone fig- 

 ures include the red marble Monument of King 

 Casimir IV and three reliefs entitled Last Sup- 

 per, Christ on the Mount of Olives and Taking 

 of Christ. The Nuremberg Germanic Museum 

 possesses his famous relief Coronation of the 

 Blessed Virgin and several other examples of 

 his art. 



STOVE, an enclosure of metal, brick or 

 earthenware, in which fires are built for heat- 



ing houses or for cooking. The modern stove 

 heater, an outgrowth of the cast-iron box stove 

 invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1744, is con- 

 structed of circular steel plates with draughts 

 and dampers for regulating the heat. Although 

 it adds greatly to the dust content of the air 

 and absorbs the moisture of a room, it warms 

 a house splendidly, giving out from forty to 

 sixty per cent of the heating value of the fuel, 

 which is usually coal, while fireplaces do not 

 utilize more than ten or fifteen per cent. The 

 heater is the principal device for warming farm 

 buildings, but in modern city structures heat- 

 ing is generally accomplished by hot-air fur- 

 naces, steam heat or hot-water heat. See HEAT- 

 ING AND VENTILATION. 



While the heater has only one chamber, 

 where the fire burns on a barred grate, the 

 cookstove- has one or two ovens for baking, 

 and the top of the stove is flat, with several 

 holes over the, fire for pots. Since gas and elec- 

 tricity have come into use, iron cookstoves 

 have gradually given way to gas and electric 

 stoves, as the latter are cleaner and they ren- 

 der work less arduous. Oil and alcohol are 

 also used to heat small, portable stoves for 

 cooking purposes in summer camps, and oil and 

 gasoline stoves are common in kitchens in com- 

 munities where more modern innovations are 

 lacking. 



STOWE, sto, HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER 

 (1811-1896), an American novelist, remembered 

 chiefly as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. 

 She was the sister of Henry Ward Beecher,' and 

 was born and educated at Litchfield, Conn. 

 Her family moved first to Boston and then to 

 Cincinnati, where her father was made presi- 

 dent of the newly established Lane Theolog- 

 ical Seminary; and in 1836 Harriet was married 

 to Professor Calvin E. Stowe of that institu- 

 tion. The Ohio River was the dividing line 

 between free and slave soil, and she must have 

 seen many slaves escaping to freedom, perhaps 

 at times even aiding in their escape. She vis- 

 ited homes in Kentucky, also, where she wit- 

 nessed some of the scenes described in Uncle 

 Tom's Cabin. In 1850 Professor Stowe and his 

 wife moved to Brunswick, Me., and later to 

 Andover, Mass. After her husband's death in 

 1886 Mrs. Stowe lived quietly in Hartford, 

 Conn. 



Mrs. Stowe, because of her famous novel 

 published in 1852, is one of the small body of 

 writers whose productions are so completely a 

 part of the political development of the United 

 States as to make it difficult to judge her work 



