A Guide to Mythology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Guide to Mythology

To Houghton, Mifflin Co., the publishers of Algonquin Legends, by J.G. Leland, and of Bryants translation of the Odyssey; to J.B. Lippincott Co., the publishers of Gods and Heroes of Old Japan, by Violet M.Pasteur, and of Old Deccan Days, by Mary Erere; to A. Wessels Co., the publishers and to Mr. W.W. Canfield, the author of Legends of the Iroquois; to Ginn Co., the publishers of Classic Myths in English Literature, based on Bulfmch sAge of Fable, by Charles Mills Gayley; to Macmillan Co., publishers of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, Done into English Prose, by A. Lang; to Scott, Foresman Co., publishers of ISTorse Mythology, by Melville B.Anderson. Other collections, out of print, as far as I know the original publishers no longer being in existence, from which I have taken stories, are: Indian Fairy Tales Based on Schoolcraft, by Cornelius Mathews, and Indian Myths, by EllenE. Emerson; also from the following English publications: Polynesian Myths, by Sir George Grey; Russian Stories, by Ralston.

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