An Anthology of stories and poems from various world sources.
This volume contains:
Book, Book by Annette Wynne;
How the King Dined with Robin Hood in the Merry Greenwood (English) by Thomas Love Peacock;
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe;
A Bundle of Straw (Norman) by Charlotte M. Yonge;
Waukewa’s Eagle (American Indian) by James Buckham;
The “Black Douglas” (Scotch-American) by Daniel Henderson;
My Heart’s In the Highlands by Robert Burns;
A Great Story-Teller (Chinese) by V. M. Hillyer;
Sigurd and the Dragon Fafnir (Icelandic), a Volsung saga;
Scylla and Charybdis Grecian) by Thomas Bulfinch;
Allen-A-Dale by Sir Walter Scott;
The Swiss Family Robinson by David Wyss;
On The Sea by John Keats;
Hereward the Wake Meets A Bear (English);
The Bugle Song by Alfred Lord Tennyson;
Anselmo (Italian) by Jean Ingelow;
Gargantua (French) by François Rabelais;
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll;
The Wooden Horse of Troy (Grecian) by Homer;
Adventures of Hengist and Horsa by Frances Jenkins Olcott;
The Miraculous Stag (Hungarian) by Nándor Pogány;
Finn and the Old Men (Irish) by Standish O’Grady;
Barbara’s Fugitive (English) by E. V. Lucas;
The Cavalier by Sir Walter Scott;
Christmas Everywhere by Phillips Brooks;
Bibles Made of Stone and Glass by V. M. Hillyer;
A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant;
Ragnar Shaggy-Breeches (Danish) by Philip Schuyler Allen;
Paul Bunyan, Babe, and the Blue Snow by Renée B. Stern;
De Big Wurrum, a Bahama folk tale;
The Leap of Roushan Beg (Arabian) by Henry W. Longfellow;
Geraint, the Son of Erbin (Welsh), from the Mabinogion;
Over the Bridge to Avignon, a French action song;
The Pope’s Mule (French) by Alphonse Daudet;
How Marko of Serbia Won an Archery Contest, a Serbian folk tale;
Zal of the White Hair (Persian) by Philip Schuyler Allen;
The Cid (Spanish) translated by Robert Southey;
The Knight’s Coat of Arms;
The Story of Roland (French) by Philip Schuyler Allen;
The Maiden knight of Voices (French) by Basil Mathews;
The Women of Weinsberg (German) by Adelbert von Chamisso;
The Wife of Bath’s Tale (English) by Geoffrey Chaucer;
Schamyl, The Circassian Chieftain by Anne Gregory;
Rama and the Rakshas (Hindu) from the Ramayana;
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch) by Richard Wagner;
How Gunnar Played Huckster Hedinn (Icelandic) from the Njals Saga;
The Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green (English) by Grace Greenwood;
Winter by James Russell Lowell;
Life of the Castle by Samuel Bannister Harding;
Dinah and the Dinosaur by Louise Redfield Peattie;
Gulliver’s Adventures in Laputa (English) by Jonathan swift;
Zadig Wins the Kingdom (Arabian) by Voltaire;
The English Merchant and the Saracen Lady by Charles Dickens;
Sam Houston, President of Texas by Renée B. Stern.