| PAGE | |
| PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA | [1] |
| PYGMALION | [11] |
| PHAETON | [16] |
| ENDYMION | [26] |
| ORPHEUS | [31] |
| APOLLO AND DAPHNE | [42] |
| PSYCHE | [46] |
| THE CALYDONIAN HUNT | [69] |
| ATALANTA | [78] |
| ARACHNE | [82] |
| IDAS AND MARPESSA | [90] |
| ARETHUSA | [100] |
| PERSEUS THE HERO | [105] |
| NIOBE | [124] |
| HYACINTHUS | [129] |
| KING MIDAS OF THE GOLDEN TOUCH | [134] |
| CEYX AND HALCYONE | [144] |
| ARISTÆUS THE BEE-KEEPER | [154] |
| PROSERPINE | [161] |
| LATONA AND THE RUSTICS | [169] |
| ECHO AND NARCISSUS | [174] |
| ICARUS | [181] |
| CLYTIE | [189] |
| THE CRANES OF IBYCUS | [192] |
| SYRINX | [197] |
| THE DEATH OF ADONIS | [202] |
| PAN | [209] |
| LORELEI | [220] |
| FREYA, QUEEN OF THE NORTHERN GODS | [227] |
| THE DEATH OF BALDUR | [234] |
| BEOWULF | [244] |
| ROLAND THE PALADIN | [266] |
| THE CHILDREN OF LÎR | [289] |
| DEIRDRÊ | [306] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| “What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river?” | [Frontispiece] |
| PAGE | |
| Then Pygmalion covered his eyes | [12] |
| She checked her hounds, and stood beside Endymion | [28] |
| Swiftly he turned, and found his wife behind him | [38] |
| Thus did Psyche lose her fear, and enter the golden doors | [52] |
| She stopped, and picked up the treasure | [80] |
| Marpessa sat alone by the fountain | [92] |
| They whimpered and begged of him | [112] |
| Darkness fell on the eyes of Hyacinthus | [132] |
| A grey cold morning found her on the seashore | [152] |
| She haunted him like his shadow | [176] |
| Freya sat spinning the clouds | [228] |
| “Baldur the Beautiful is dead!” | [240] |
| A stroke shivered the sword | [262] |
| Roland seized once more his horn | [282] |
| One touch for each with a magical wand of the Druids | [294] |
A BOOK OF MYTHS
PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA
Those who are interested in watching the mental development of a child must have noted that when the baby has learned to speak even a little, it begins to show its growing intelligence by asking questions. “What is this?” it would seem at first to ask with regard to simple things that to it are still mysteries. Soon it arrives at the more far-reaching inquiries—“Why is this so?” “How did this happen?” And as the child’s mental growth continues, the painstaking and conscientious parent or guardian is many times faced by questions which lack of knowledge, or a sensitive honesty, prevents him from answering either with assurance or with ingenuity.