Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

BY

Author of "Young Folks' History of the United States," "Malbone," "The Monarch of Dreams," "Cheerful Yesterdays," etc.

With Illustrations by Albert Herter

"Mediæval maps swarmed with fabulous islands; and wild stories of adventurous voyages divided the attention with tales of love and war."--Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America," I, 31.

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

[1898]

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p. v

TO

General Sir George Wentworth Higginson, K. C. B.

Gyldernscroft, Marlow, England

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THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, IN TOKEN OF KINDRED AND OF OLD FAMILY FRIENDSHIPS, CORDIALLY PRESERVED INTO THE PRESENT GENERATION

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THESE LEGENDS UNITE THE TWO SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC AND FORM A PART OF THE COMMON HERITAGE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACE