rch's "Stories from Greek Tragedians."_

THE STORY OF IPHIGENIA 131
_From Church's "Stories from Greek Tragedians."_

THE SACK OF TROY 153
_From Church's "Stories from Virgil."_

BEOWULF AND GRENDEL 164
_From Joyce Pollard's "Stories from Old English
Romance."_

THE GOOD KING ARTHUR 179

THE GREAT KNIGHT SIEGFRIED 214

LOHENGRIN AND ELSA THE BEAUTIFUL 221
_From the German of Robert Hertwig._

FRITHIOF THE BOLD 226
_From the German of Robert Hertwig._

WAYLAND THE SMITH 231
_From the German of Robert Hertwig._

TWARDOWSKI, THE POLISH FAUST 237

ILIA MUROMEC OF RUSSIA 243

KRALEWITZ MARKO OF SERVIA 245

THE DECISION OF LIBUSCHA 248

COUNT ROLAND OF FRANCE 250
_From Church's "Stories of Charlemagne and the Peers
of France."_

THE CID 267

PROMETHEUS, THE FRIEND OF MAN

Many, many centuries ago there lived two brothers, Prometheus or
Forethought, and Epimetheus or Afterthought. They were the sons of those
Titans who had fought against Jupiter and been sent in chains to the
great prison-house of the lower world, but for some reason had escaped
punishment.

Prometheus, however, did not care for idle life among the gods on Mount
Olympus. Instead he preferred to spend his time on the earth, helping
men to find easier and better ways of living. For the children of earth
were not happy as they had been in the golden days when Saturn ruled.
Indeed, they were very poor and wretched and cold, without fire, without
food, and with no shelter but miserable caves.

"With fire they could at least warm their bodies and cook their food,"
Prometheus thought, "and later they could make tools and build houses
for themselves and enjoy some of the comforts of the gods."

So Prometheus went to Jupiter and asked that he might be permitted to
carry fire to the earth. But Jupiter shook h