Compiled by American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer Hamilton Wright Mabie, here is a fantastic collection of classic legends from ancient mythology, The classical work of Hawthorne has been generously drawn upon. Included are "Three Golden Apples"; "Pomegranate Seeds"; "Chimera" "Golden Touch" "Gorgon's Head"; "Dragon's Teeth"; "Miraculous Pitcher"; "Paradise of Children" "Cyclops"; "Argonauts"; "Giant Builder"; "How Odin Lost His Eye"; "Quest of the Hammer" "Apples of Idun"; "Death of Balder"; and "Star and the Lily.
Compiled by American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer Hamilton Wright Mabie, here is a fantastic collection of classic legends from ancient myth...
No attempt is made in this book to describe in detail the Japan of to-day as the traveler sees it in its schools, industries, banking, administration, army and navy organization and activity; reports of the changes and developments of the last sixty years may be found in an increasing literature of information. It is a story of such dramatic interest, of such striking contrasts, of such rapid changes of external occupation, methods of work and habits of life, that it has found many recorders. Never before in historic times has the transformation of a civilization been accomplished with such...
No attempt is made in this book to describe in detail the Japan of to-day as the traveler sees it in its schools, industries, banking, administration,...
Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecture He was born at Cold Spring, N. Y. in 1846. Mabie was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a wealthy Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose ancestors were Scots-Dutch. They were early immigrants to New Amsterdam, New Netherland about 1647. Due to business opportunities with the opening of the Erie Canal his family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was approaching school age. At the young age of 16 he passed his college entrance examination, but waited...
Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecture He was born at Cold Spring, N. Y. in 1846...
The fairy tale is a poetic recording of the facts of life, an interpretation by the imagination of its hard conditions, an effort to reconcile the spirit which loves freedom and goodness and beauty with its harsh, bare and disappointing conditions. It is, in its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs of the imagination, the cravings of the heart. Classics included in this volume include: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes, The Magic Mirror, The Enchanted Stag, Hansel and Grethel, The Story of Aladdin, This Story of Ali Baba, The...
The fairy tale is a poetic recording of the facts of life, an interpretation by the imagination of its hard conditions, an effort to reconcile the spi...
