Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD BY JAMES BALDWIN AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY. CONTENTS. King Alfred and the Cakes King Alfred and the Beggar King Canute on the Seashore The Sons of William the Conqueror The White Ship King John and the Abbot A Story of Robin Hood Bruce and the Spider The Black Douglas Three Men of Gotham Other Wise Men of Gotham The Miller of the Dee Sir Philip Sidney The Ungrateful Soldier Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Walter Raleigh Pocahontas George Washington and his Hatchet Grace Darling The Story of William Tell Arnold Winkelried The Bell of Atri How Napoleon crossed the Alps The Story of Cincinnatus The Story of Regulus Cornelia's Jewels Androclus and the Lion Horatius at the Bridge Julius Caesar The Sword of Damocles Damon and Pythias A Laconic Answer The Ungrateful Guest Alexander and Bucephalus Diogenes the Wise Man The Brave Three Hundred Socrates and his House The King and his Hawk Doctor Goldsmith The Kingdoms The Barmecide Feast The Endless Tale The Blind Men and the Elephant Maximilian and the Goose Boy The Inchcape Rock Whittington and his Cat Casabianca Antonio Canova Picciola Mignon CONCERNING THESE STORIES. There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. These stories are of several different classes. To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity. To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews. A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people.