THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, IN TOKEN OF KINDRED AND OF OLD FAMILY FRIENDSHIPS, CORDIALLY PRESERVED INTO THE PRESENT GENERATION
THESE LEGENDS UNITE THE TWO SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC AND FORM A PART OF THE COMMON HERITAGE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACE
CONTENTS
II — TALIESSIN OF THE RADIANT BROW
III — THE SWAN-CHILDREN OF LIR
IV — USHEEN IN THE ISLAND OF YOUTH
VI — THE CASTLE OF THE ACTIVE DOOR
VIII — SIR LANCELOT OF THE LAKE
XII — THE VOYAGE OF ST. BRANDAN
XIII — KIRWAN'S SEARCH FOR HY-BRASAIL
XIV — THE ISLE OF SATAN'S HAND
XV — ANTILLIA, THE ISLAND OF THE SEVEN CITIES
XVII — THE SEARCH FOR NORUMBEGA
XVIII — THE GUARDIANS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE
XX — BIMINI AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Hawthorne in his Wonder Book has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history, these hazy legends were altogether disdained by the earlier historians; indeed, George Bancroft made it a matter of actual pride that the beginning of the American annals was bare and literal. But in truth no national history has been less prosaic as to its earlier traditions, because every visitor had to cross the sea to reach it, and the sea has alway