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BULFINCH’S
MYTHOLOGY
The Age of Fable
The Age of Chivalry
Legends of Charlemagne
BY
THOMAS BULFINCH
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
REVISED AND ENLARGED, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
GROSSET & DUNLAP • Publishers • NEW YORK
Copyright, 1913,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.
Printed in the United States of America
PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE
No new edition of Bulfinch’s classic work can be consideredcomplete without some notice of the Americanscholar to whose wide erudition and painstaking careit stands as a perpetual monument. “The Age of Fable”has come to be ranked with older books like “Pilgrim’sProgress,” “Gulliver’s Travels,” “The Arabian Nights,”“Robinson Crusoe,” and five or six other productions ofworld-wide renown as a work with which every onemust claim some acquaintance before his education canbe called really complete. Many readers of the presentedition will probably recall coming in contact with thework as children, and, it may be added, will no doubtdiscover from a fresh perusal the source of numerousbits of knowledge that have remained stored in theirminds since those early years. Yet to the majority ofthis great circle of readers and students the name Bulfinchin itself has no significance.
Thomas Bulfinch was a native of Boston, Mass., wherehe was born in 1796. His boyhood was spent in thatcity, and he prepared for college in the Boston schools.He finished his scholastic training at Harvard College,and after taking his degree was for a period a teacherin his home city. For a long time later in life he wasemployed as an accountant in the Boston Merchants’Bank. His leisure time he used for further pursuit ofthe classical studies which he had begun at Harvard,and his chief pleasure in life lay in writing out the resultsof his reading, in simple, condensed form for youngor busy readers. The plan he follo