Beautifully pictured and poetically told legends of Ireland’s epic hero Fionn. A book for the boy or girl who loves the old romances, and a book for story-telling or reading aloud.
“Stories of Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France,” by A. J. Church.
Stories from the old French and English chronicles showing the romantic glamour surrounding the great Charlemagne and his crusading knights.
“The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood,” written and illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Both in picture and in story this book holds first place in the hearts of children.
“A Book of Ballad Stories,” by Mary Macleod.
Good prose versions of some of the famous old ballads sung by the minstrels of England and Scotland.
“The Story of Roland,” by James Baldwin.
“There is, in short, no country in Europe, and no language, in which the exploits of Charlemagne and Roland have not at some time been recounted and sung.” This book will serve as a good introduction to a fine heroic character.
“The Boy’s Froissart,” being Sir John Froissart’s Chronicles of Adventure, Battle, and Custom in England, France, Spain.