| Frontispiece—Each night Hero lighted her torch; each night Leander swam across the narrow sea | |
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| Title-Page | |
| Heading to Introduction | vii |
| Heading to Contents | xiii |
| Heading to List of Illustrations | xv |
| She put out her cruel claws and lashed her tail from side to side like an angry lion waiting for his prey | 17 |
| With firm, unfaltering steps he led the way once more, and Theseus followed after | 33 |
| On the bed, wrapped in slumber, lay the youngest and fairest of the Immortals | 59 |
| Faster and faster he went, and up and down, and round and round | 67 |
| She unloosed the rope, and pushed out into the stream | 81 |
| "Help, help! I drown in this foul stream!" | 93 |
| She lowered her eyes in confusion, and her limbs trembled beneath her, so that she leant back against the pillar for support | 111 |
| From the shadow of the trees came the strange herdsman, playing on his lyre | 137 |
| Admetus heeded neither shepherd nor shrine.... Without a thought he passed the altar by | 151 |
| And the children crept silently to her | 171 |
| She answered him never a word, but held out both her hands and raised him from his knees | 185 |
| As he spoke, he took her by the hand, and set her in a place of honour between his father and himself | 201 |
| As the brute bore down, Meleager buried the spear deep in his shoulder | 207 |
| For the last time he leaned forward | 223 |
| On the breath of the night wind Aphrodite came in, and she kissed the statue on the lips | 233 |
| From the shadow of the cave crept a wood-nymph, and lay upon the grass | 245 |
| "Orpheus," she cried in her despair, "thy hand!" | 255 |
| On and on she fled, with the swiftness and strength of despair | 269 |
| "Oh, my father!" she cried | 279 |
| Out of the corner of his eye he could see the gleam of her tunic | 303 |
| Out of the stream beside him there rose a wondrous form of a maiden clad all in misty white | 317 |
| Menelaus was bearing him in triumph towards the Achæan host | 339 |
| Cast herself upon the body of Paris, and put her arms about his neck | 345 |
| Initials, Tail-pieces, etc. |
