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The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Stories from the Classics
The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10), by Various, Edited by Eva March Tappan
Title: The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10)
Author: Various
Release Date: January 21, 2005 [eBook #14752]
Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, VOLUME 3 (OF 10)***
E-text prepared by Bill Tozier, Barbara Tozier,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
IN TEN VOLUMES
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
The Children’s Hour
STORIES FROM THE CLASSICS
Selected & Arranged by
Eva March Tappan
1907
Houghton Mifflin Company
Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower comes a pause in the days occupations, that is known as the Children’s Hour.
NOTE
All rights in stories in this volume are reserved by the holders of the copyrights. The publishers and others named in the subjoined list are the proprietors, either in their own right or as agents for the authors, of the stories taken from the works enumerated, of which the ownership is hereby acknowledged. The editor takes this opportunity to thank both authors and publishers for the ready generosity with which they have allowed her to include these stories in “The Children’s Hour.”
“The Wonder-Book,” and “Tanglewood Tales,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company.
“Old Greek Folk Stories,” by Josephine Preston Peabody; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company.
“The Odyssey of Homer,” English prose version by George Herbert Palmer; published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company.
CONTENTS
TO THE CHILDREN | |
STORIES FROM HERODOTUS | |
Ladronius, The Prince of Thieves | Retold by G.H. Boden and W. Barrington d’Almeida |
Arion and the Dolphin | Retold by G.H. Boden and W. Barrington d’Almeida |
STORIES FROM LIVY | |
Romulus, Founder of Rome | Alfred J. Church |
How Horatius Held the Bridge | Alfred J. Church |
How Cincinnatus Saved Rome | Alfred J. Church |
The Story of Virginia | Alfred J. Church |
The Sacrifice of Marcus Curtius | Alfred J. Church |
STORIES FROM OVID | |
The Miraculous Pitcher | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The Golden Touch | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The Pomegranate Seeds | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
OLD GREEK FOLK-STORIES | |
Orpheus and Eurydice | Josephine Preston Peabody |
Icarus and Dædalus | Josephine Preston Peabody |
Phaethon | Josephine Preston Peabody |
Niobe | Josephine Preston Peabody |
Pyramus and Thisbe | Josephine Preston Peabody |
STORIES OF THE TROJAN WAR | |
The Apple of Discord | Josephine Preston Peabody |