Sinopsis

The art of story-telling has been cultivated in all ages and among all
nations of which we have any record; it is the outcome of an instinct
implanted universally in the human mind. By means of a story the savage
philosopher s for his own existence and that of all the phenomena
which surround him. With a story the mothers of the wildest tribes awe
their little ones into silence, or rouse them into delight. And the weary
hunters beguile the long silence of a desert night with the mirth and
wonders of a tale. The imagination is not less fruitful in the higher races;
and, ing through forms sometimes more, sometimes less, serious, the
art of story-telling unites with the k...