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Title: Myths That Every Child Should Know

Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie

Illustrator: Blanche Ostertag

Release date: August 17, 2005 [eBook #16537]
Most recently updated: November 1, 2021

Language: English

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MEDEIA AND JASON WITH THE GOLDEN FLEECE

MYTHS THAT EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW

A SELECTION OF THE CLASSIC MYTHS OF ALL TIMES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

EDITED BY

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED

BY BLANCHE OSTERTAG

NEW YORK

Doubleday, Page & Company

1906

NOTE

The editor and publishers wish to express their appreciation of the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and the Macmillan Company, by means of which they have been enabled to reprint stories from Hawthorne's "Wonder Book" and "Tanglewood Tales," from "In the Days of Giants," from "Norse Stories," from Church's "Stories from Homer," and from Kingsley's "Greek Heroes."