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I. HIAWATHA
From “Indian Myths.” By Ellen Emerson.
II. BEOWULF
From “A Book of Famous Myths and Legends.”
III. CHILDE HORN
From “A Book of Famous Myths and Legends.”
IV. SIR GALAHAD
Alfred Tennyson.
V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB
From “The Epic of Kings. Stories Retold from Firdusi.” By Helen Zimmern.
VI. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS
From “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.” By Sabine Baring-Gould.
VII. GUY OF WARWICK
From “Popular Romances of the Middle Ages.” By George W. Cox,
M. A. and Eustace Hinten Jones.
VIII. CHEVY CHASE
From “The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.” Edited by Francis
James Child.
IX. THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR
From “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan
and of the Fianna of Ireland.” Arranged and put into English by Lady
Gregory.
X. THE BELEAGUERED CITY
From “Voices of the Night.” By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
XI. PRESTER JOHN
From “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.” By Sabine Baring-Gould.
XII. THE WANDERING JEW
From “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.” By Sabine Baring-Gould.
XIII. KING ROBERT OF SICILY
From “The Wayside Inn.” By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
XIV. THE LIFE OF THE BEATO TORELLO DA POPPI
From “Il Libro d’Oro of Those Whose Names are Written in the
Lamb’s Book of Life.” Translated from the Italian by Mrs. Francis
Alexander. Originally written in Latin by Messer Torrelo of
Casentino, Canonico of Fiesole, and put into Italian by Don Silvano.
XV. THE LORELEI
From the German of Heinrich Heine.
XVI. THE PASSING OF ARTHUR
From “Idylls of the King.” By Alfred Tennyson.
XVII. RIP VAN WINKLE
Washington Irving.
XVIII. THE GRAY CHAMPION
From “Twice Told Tales.” By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
XIX. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Washington Irving.