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illustrations from old masters.



``Old, Old Tales From the Old, Old Book,'' by Nora Archibald Smith.



``Written in the East these characters live forever in the West--

they pervade the world.'' A good rendering of the Old Testament.

``The Jewish Fairy Book,'' translated and adapted by Gerald Friedlander.



Stories of great nobility and beauty from the Talmud and the old

Jewish chap-books.

``Eastern Stories and Legends,'' by Marie L. Shedlock.



``The soldiers of Alexander who had settled in the East, wandering

merchants of many nations and climes, crusading knights and hermits

brought these Buddha Stories from the East to the West.''





Stories of Greece and Rome

``The Story of the Golden Age,'' by James Baldwin.



Some of the most beautiful of the old Greek myths woven into the

story of the Odyssey make this book a good introduction to the glories

of the Golden Age.

``A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales,'' by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

with pictures by Maxfield Parrish.



``The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy,'' by Padraic

Colum, presented by Willy Pogany.



An attractive, poetically rendered account of ``the world's greatest

story.''



``The Story of Rome,'' by Mary Macgregor, with twenty plates in

colour.



Attractively illustrated and simply presented story of Rome from

the earliest times to the death of Augustus.



``Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls,'' retold by W. H. Weston.

``The Lays of Ancient Rome,'' by Lord Macaulay.



``The early history of Rome is indeed far more poetical than anything

else in Latin Literature.''



``Children of the Dawn,'' by Elsie Finnemore Buckley.



Old Greek tales of love, adventure, heroism, skill, achievement, or

defeat exceptionally well told. Especially recommended for girls.



``The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children,'' by Charles

Kingsley.



``The Story of Greece,'' by Mary Macgregor, with nineteen plates in

colour by Walter Crane.



Attractively illustrated and simply presented--a good book to

begin on.





Christianity



``The Story of Jesus,'' pictures from paintings by Giotto, Fra Angelico,

Duccio, Ghirlandais, and Barnja-da-Siena. Descriptive text

from the New Testament, selected and arranged by Ethel Natalie

Dana.



A beautiful book and a beautiful way to present the Christ Story.

``A Child's Book of Saints,'' by William Canton.



Sympathetically told and charmingly written stories of men and

women whose faith brought about strange miracles, and whose goodness

to man and beast set the world wondering.

``The Seven Champions of Christendom,'' edited by F. J. H. Darton.



How the knights of old--St. George of England, St. Denis of

France, St. James of Spain, and others--fought with enchanters and

evil spirits to preserve the Kingdom of God. Fine old romances interestingly

told for children.

``Stories From the Christian East,'' by Stephen Gaselee.



Unusual stories which have been translated from the Coptic, the

Greek, the Latin and the Ethiopic.

``Jerusalem and the Crusades,'' by Estelle Blyth, with eight plates in

colour.



Historical stories telling how children and priests, hermits and

knights all strove to keep the Cross in the East.





Stories of Legend and Chivalry



``Stories of Norse Heroes From the Eddas and Sagas,'' retold by E. M.

Wilmot-Buxton.



These are tales which the Northmen tell concerning the wisdom of

All-Father Odin, and how all things began and how they ended. A

good book for all children, and for story-tellers.

``The Story of Siegfried,'' by James Baldwin.



A good introduction to this Northern hero whose strange and

daring deeds fill the pages of the old sagas.

``The Story of King Arthur and His Knights,'' written and illustrated

by Howard Pyle.



This, and the companion volumes, ``The Story of the Champions of

the Round Table,'' ``The Story of Sir Launcelot
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