=TALES OF THE ENCHANTED ISLES OF THE ATLANTIC= =By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON= _Author of "Young Folks' History of the United States," "Malbone," "Cheerful Yesterdays," etc._ Illustrated by ALBERT HERTER. Legends with which the people of Europe were for many centuries fed in regard to the countries beyond the seas now known as America. "No national history has been less prosaic in its earlier traditions," says Colonel Higginson, who relates in a manner which shows strong sympathy and learned research, these wonderful stories which for a thousand years were told of a mysterious island in the Atlantic. =BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS= =By FRANK R. STOCKTON= _Author of "Rudder Grange," etc., etc._ Illustrated by G. VARIAN and B. W. CLINEDINST. Stories of the rise and decline of buccaneering and piracy in our West Indian waters. Spanish exactions grew so monstrous in the seventeenth century that English, French, and Dutch combined against their excesses. The buccaneers who were the result of the combination became later pirates for private gain. Mr. Stockton's quaint humor brightens the stories of their dark deeds in characteristic style. The book is unique. =THE STORY OF OLD FORT LOUDON= =A Tale of the Cherokees and the Pioneers of Tennessee, 1760= =By CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK= _Author of "Where the Battle Was Fought," etc., "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain."_ Illustrated by E. C. PEIXOTTO. A narrative of the life of the pioneers of Tennessee and their fortunes at the hands of the Cherokees in the uprising of 1760. The brilliant Tennessee landscape and the old frontier fort serve as a background to this picture of Indian craft and guile and pioneer hardships and pleasures. THE MACMILLAN COMPANY =66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK= Adown a shallow stream we sent our leafy boats with swelling sail, and floating pennant of striped grass. Freighted with flowers beloved of children, the laughing pansies,--for thoughts,--we thrust them heedlessly forth with never a care whether boat or crew e'er reached a harbor. Out into the world on the stream of the fast-hurrying century I send this paper boat--my book--laden with thoughts of children's lives. Grown careful with years, I crave for it a safe journey and sheltered harbor. Perhaps the craft may bear to some reader a memory of his own childhood, as well as stories of the children of an ancient day; a day so gray and sad as seen through the haze of centuries that the only cheerful light is found in the faces of the children. [Illustration: leafy boats] * * * * * Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.