CLASSIC MYTHS

Retold By

MARY CATHERINE JUDD
Principal of the Lincoln School
Minneapolis Minn.

ILLUSTRATED BY

ANGUS MAC DONALL
with drawings entirely from classic sources




PREFACE


The very cordial reception given this little book by teachers and
children, both in school and out of school, has tempted me carefully to
revise the stories, omitting some and adding others, in the hope of
making the book still more welcome and more helpful. The illustrations
in the present edition are all from classic sources, and reproduce for
the reader something of the classic idea and the classic art.

The book was originally prepared as an aid in Nature Study, and this
thought has been retained in the present edition. By reading these myths
the child will gain in interest and sympathy for the life of beast,
bird, and tree; he will learn to recognize those constellations which