Hero Tales by James Baldwin
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Title: Hero Tales
Author: James Baldwin
Release Date: April 14, 2005 [EBook #15616]
Language: English
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HERO TALES
BY
JAMES BALDWIN
Author of "The Story of Siegfried," "The Story of Roland," "A Story of the Golden Age," "Baldwin's Readers," etc.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1914
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
TO
CARRIE EDITH AND NELLIE MAY
INTRODUCTION
In the world's literature there are certain stories which, told ages ago, can never be forgotten. They have within them that which gives pleasure to all intelligent men, women and children. They appeal to the sympathies, the desires, and the admiration of all sorts and conditions of mankind. These are the stories that are said to be immortal. They have been repeated and re-repeated in many forms and to all kinds of audiences. They have been recited and sung in royal palaces, in the halls of mediaeval castles, and by the camp fires of warring heroes. Parents have taught them to their children, and generation after generation has preserved their memory. They have been written on parchment and printed in books, translated into many lang