Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
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Old Man of the Mountain
FAMOUS STORIES
Every Child Should Know
EDITED BY
Hamilton Wright Mabie
THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY
Published by
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO., INC., for
THE PARENTS' INSTITUTE, INC.
Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"
9 EAST 40th STREET, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE
COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY. N.Y.
The stories of "The Great Stone Face" and "The Snow Image" byNathaniel Hawthorne, are used in this volume by permission of Messrs.Houghton, Mifflin & Company. Messrs. Little, Brown & Company havegranted permission for the republication of "The Man Without aCountry" by Edward Everett Hale.
The group of stories brought together in this volume differ fromlegends because they have, with one exception, no core of fact at thecentre, from myths because they make no attempt to personify orexplain the forces or processes of nature, from fairy stories becausethey do not often bring on to the stage actors of a different naturefrom ours. They give full play to the fancy as in "A Child's Dream ofa Star," "The King of the Golden River," "Undine," and "The SnowImage"; but they are not poetic records of the facts of life, attemptsto shape those facts "to meet the needs of the imagination, thecravings of the heart." In the Introduction to the book of Fairy Talesin this series, those familiar and much loved stories which have beenrepeated to children for unnumbered generations and will be repeatedto the end of time, are described as "records of the free and joyfulplay of the imagination, opening doors through hard conditions to thespirit, which craves power, freedom, happiness; righting wrongs, andredressing injuries; defeating base designs; rewarding patience andvirtue; crowning true love with happiness; placing the powers ofdarkness under the control of man and making their ministers hisservants." The stories which make up this volume are closer to
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