cCunn, as already said, compiled from the sources indicated the
Adventures of Prince Charles, and she tells the story of Grace Darling;
the contemporary account is, unluckily, rather meagre. Miss Alleyne did
'The Kidnapping of the Princes,' Mrs. Plowden the 'Story of Kaspar
Hauser.' Miss Wright reduced the Adventures of Cortes from Prescott, and
Mr. Rider Haggard has already been mentioned in connection with
Isandhlwana.

Here the editor leaves _The True Story Book_ to the indulgence of
children, explaining, once more, that his respect for their judgment is
very great, and that he would not dream of imposing _lessons_ on _them_,
in the shape of a Christmas book. No, lessons are one thing, and stories
are another. But though fiction is undeniably stranger and more
attractive than truth, yet true stories are also rather attractive and
strange, now and then. And, after all, we may return once more to
Fairyland, after this excursion into the actual workaday world.

CONTENTS

PAGE

_A Boy among the Red Indians_ 1

_Casanova's Escape_ 16

_Adventures on the Findhorn_ 29

_The Story of Grace Darling_ 41

_The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake'_ 48

_Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates_ 52

_The Spartan Three Hundred_ 64

_Prince Charlie's Wanderings_ 68

_Two Great Matches_ 105

_The Story of Kaspar Hauser_ 113

_An Artist's Adventure_ 122

_The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift_ 132

_How Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good_ 153

_The Escapes of Cervantes_ 161

_The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe_ 168

_Baron Trenck_ 176

_The Adventure of John Rawlins_ 186

_The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden_ 193

_The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo_ 207

_The Escape of Caesar Borgia from the Castle of
Medina del Campo_ 213

_The Kidnapping of the Princes_ 219

_The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire_