Books in Myths and Legends from Around the World series

Florence L. Holbrook (1860-1932) was the author of The Book of Nature Myths (1902), Northland Heroes (1909), The Hiawatha Primer and Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades. "For centuries the songs of Homer, the blind poet of Greece, recounting the heroic deeds of great Hector and lion-hearted Achilles, have delighted the children, young and old, of many lands. But part of our own heritage, and nearer to us in race and time, are these stories of Beowulf and Frithiof. "