ILLUSTRATIONS

Odin Bids Farewell to Brunhild before He Surrounds Her by a
Barrier of Fire (Frontispiece)
From the painting by Th. Pixis

Oedipus Solving the Sphinx's Riddle
From the painting by Ingres

Achilles Disguised as a Girl Testing the Sword in Ulysses' Pack
From the painting by Battoni

Circe and Ulysses' Companions Turned into Swine
By L. Chalon

Venus Meeting Aeneas and Achates Near Carthage
From the painting by Cortona

Roland at Roncevaux
From the painting by L.F. Guesnet

The Palace Where Inez de Castro Lived and was Murdered

Dante Interviewing Hugues Capet
From an illustration by R. Galli

Hermione Finds Tancred Wounded
From the painting by Nicolas Poussin

The Body of Elaine on its Way to King Arthur's Palace
By Gustave Dora

Una and the Red Cross Knight
From the painting by George Frederick Watts

The Heralds Summon Lucifer's Host to a Council at Pandemonium
By Gustave Dore

The Dead Sigfried Rome Back to Worms
From the painting by Th. Pixis

St. John the Evangelist at Patmos Writing the Apocalypse
From the painting by Correggio

Sita Soothing Rama to Sleep
From a Calcutta print

The Monk Breaks into the Robbers' House to Rescue White Aster
From a Japanese print

"It is in this vast, dim region of myth and legend the sources of the literature of modern times are hidden; and it is only by returning to them, by constant remembrance that they drain a vast region of vital human experience, that the origin and early direction of that literature can be recalled."—Hamilton Wright Mabie.