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THE BOOK OF THE EPIC

The World's Great Epics Told in Story

by

H. A. GUERBER

Author of Myths of Greece and Rome, Myths of Northern Lands, Legends of the Middle Ages, etc.

With an Introduction by J. Berg Esenwein, Litt. D.

With Sixteen Illustrations from the Masters of Painting

1913