The Lists at Ashby _Sir Walter Scott_ 363
The Twenty-Third Psalm _The Bible_ 376
Doubting Castle _John Bunyan_ 377
Christmas Eve at Fezziwig's _Charles Dickens_ 384
Jean Valjean Meets the Bishop _Victor Hugo_ 387
A Voyage to Lilliput _Jonathan Swift_ 394
The Struggle in the Arena _Henryk Sienkiewicz_ 405
Polonius's Advice to his Son _William Shakespeare_ 413
Mercy _William Shakespeare_ 414
_A SHEAF OF LEGENDS_
_To every important race of people there has come
down through the ages a fine heritage of story and
song. Usually these tales are largely fiction and
partially fact. They may be songs about heroes;
stories to account for the existence of things;
moral tales; or tales of pure imagination. Whatever
they are, they preserve for us from the past the
thoughts or the deeds of our early ancestors; and
as tales they excite our interest because of their
simplicity and straightforwardness._
[Illustration: ALI HAFED'S QUEST
(_See following page_)]