[Illustration: 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."


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