Illustrated by George A. Harker. 12mo. Cloth. 264 pages.
List price, 60 cents; mailing price, 70 cents
THIS collection of stories of the ancient Greeks is intended for supplementary reading, and may be used profitably as early as the third year. It includes many of the charming tales of the Greek mythology retold in a manner suitable for young people. The second part of the volume deals more particularly with Greek history. The familiar stories are given in chronological order. Sufficient attention is everywhere paid to the matter of guarding the reader against too implicit belief in tales which have been partially discredited by modern research. Yet it has been thought wise to keep in currency narratives which have so long added to the pleasure of the world, though they cannot be defended as actual history.
The style is simple, picturesque, and vivacious. The twenty-five full-page illustrations, from original decorative pen drawings by George A. Harker, are unusually attractive and help to explain the text. The special cream-tinted paper, the attractive binding, and artistic arrangement of type and illustrations give a pleasing and appropriate setting to the text.
GINN & COMPANY Publishers
Transcriber’s Note
Variations in spelling are preserved as printed.
Minor punctuation errors have been fixed.
Hyphenation has been made consistent.
The author sometimes employed a writing style where a word is dropped from a phrase—for example, “Who gave it you?” rather than “Who gave it to you?”, or “though ignorant who she was” rather than “though ignorant of who she was.” All such instances are preserved as printed.