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Title: Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy
Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls

Author: Various

Editor: Logan Marshall

Release Date: March 28, 2008 [eBook #24935]

Language: English

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FAMOUS TALES OF FACT AND FANCY

Myths and Legends
of the Nations of the World
Retold for Boys and Girls

Translated and Edited by

LOGAN MARSHALL

Illustrated
With Original Plates

Philadelphia
The John C. Winston Company
Publishers

Copyright, MCMXIV
L. F. Myers

PREFACE

The myths and legends here gathered together have appealed and will
continue to appeal to every age. Nowhere in the realm of fiction are
there stories to compare with those which took form centuries ago when
the race was in its childhood--stories so intimately connected with the
life and history and religion of the great peoples of antiquity that
they have become an integral part of our own civilization, a heritage of
wealth to every child that is born into the world.

The historic basis of the tales is slight; yet who can think of the
Greeks without remembering the story of Troy, or of Rome without a
backward glance at AEneas, fabled founder of the race and hero of
Virgil's world-famous Latin epic? Any understanding of German
civilisation would be incomplete without knowledge of the mythical
prince Siegfried, hero of the earliest literature of the Teutonic
people, finally immortalized in the nineteenth century through the
musical dramas of Wagner. Any understa