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Presents the best stories of all periods of chivalry, from the days of the founding of the Round Table to the death of Chevalier Bayard. It sets forth in simple story form the development and progress of knighthood from the time of St. George, who won his spurs by killing the dragon, to the founding, a thousand years later, of the order which bore his name and embodied in its ritual the highest ceremonial of chivalry. With its explanation of t...

Excerpt from Life in the Greenwood, Robin Hood Tales The open road of literature has brought us into the greenwood where we meet the merry men of Robin Hood's band and other picturesque outlaws. The Spell of the greenwood falls upon us as it has upon English people Since Robin Hood ballads became current in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As the conditions of modern life grow more complex the charm of the free, out-of-door life in th...

Excerpt from Dramatic Readings: For Schools, A Practice Book in Dramatics Dramatic work in the schoolroom has no better justification than these Wise words of the English poet. The child who forgets himself sets free his own personality, and opens his mind to in¿uence and inspiration. Moreover, in throwing himself into a part, he drops his self-consciousness and enters into the experiences of others, always a valuable social and ethical lesso...

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PREFACE: History has no period which makes a more vivid appeal to the young reader than the thousand years which we call the middle ages. The mediaeval world is just such a world as he would like to live in, where nights ride off on crusades, and kings wander out from their places in disguise, where heroes sail away to explore unknown seas, and gay cavaliers sally forth to tournament and joust. It requires no effort to interest boys and girls ...

PREFACE: History has no period which makes a more vivid appeal to the young reader than the thousand years which we call the Middle Ages. The purpose of this series is to relate this fascinating and heroic past to the present by telling the stories from the point of view of the contribution of the middle ages to the world of to-day. The heroes gain a new importance and the stories a new meaning by this treatment..... This early works is a fasc...