Brunhilda and the Magic Sword _Constance Maud_ 99 Brunhilda’s Sleep Guarded by Loki’s Fiery Arm _Constance Maud_ 107 How Siegfried Killed the Dragon _Constance Maud_ 115 How Siegfried Finds Brunhilda _Constance Maud_ 133 THE STORY OF LOHENGRIN The Plot Against the Beautiful Elsa of Brabant _Constance Maud_ 141 The Knights of the Holy Grail _Constance Maud_ 148 Lohengrin the Champion of Elsa of Brabant _Constance Maud_ 150 Ortruda Plots for Revenge _Constance Maud_ 158 The Departure of Lohengrin _Constance Maud_ 162 The Wooing of the Daughter of the King of Ireland _From the Gudrun Lay_ 171 THREE TALES OF THE RHINE The Lady of Kynast _Xavier B. Saintine_ 180 The Guardian Angel _Xavier B. Saintine_ 183 The Giant Who Laughed at a Dwarf _Xavier B. Saintine_ 185 The Legend of Saint Christopher _Lillian M. Gask_ 187 Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf _Lillian M. Gask_ 195 King Robert of Sicily _Henry W. Longfellow_ 213 MYTHS OF GREECE AND ROME The Riddle of the Sphinx _Elsie F. Buckley_ 222 The Gift of Athene _Sir George W. Cox_ 250 Daphne, Child of the Morning _Sir George W. Cox_ 253 The Vengeance of Apollo _Sir George W. Cox_ 255 The Story of Arion _Sir George W. Cox_ 261 The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice _Sir George W. Cox_ 267 Orpheus the Sweet Singer _Sir George W. Cox_ 273 Niobe, a Victim of Latona’s Jealousy _Thomas Bulfinch_ 278 The Sad Story of Pyramus and Thisbe _Thomas Bulfinch_ 282 The Twelve Labors of Hercules _Thomas Bulfinch_ 286 Hercules’s Search for the Apples of Hesperides _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 292 The Story of Cupid and Psyche _Thomas Bulfinch_ 318 How Phaëton Drove the Sun _Thomas Bulfinch_ 330 Baucis and Philemon Changed into Two Trees _Thomas Bulfinch_ 339 The Paradise of Children _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 342 TWO TALES OF THE HUDSON Rip Van Winkle _Washington Irving_ 364 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow _Washington Irving_ 386 SOME ANIMAL MYTHS OF VARIOUS LANDS