EBOOK ENCHANTED ISLANDS OF ATLANTIC ***Produced by Nathan Harris, Eric Eldred, Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.TALES OF THE ENCHANTED ISLANDS OF THE ATLANTICBYTHOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSONTOGeneral Sir George Wentworth Higginson, K. C. B._Gyldernscroft, Marlow, England_THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED, IN TOKEN OF KINDRED AND OF OLD FAMILYFRIENDSHIPS, CORDIALLY PRESERVED INTO THE PRESENT GENERATIONTHESE LEGENDS UNITE THE TWO SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC AND FORM A PART OF THECOMMON HERITAGE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING RACEPrefaceHawthorne in his _Wonder Book_ has described the beautiful Greekmyths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondroustales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands ofthe Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period ofAmerican history, these hazy legends were altogether disdained by theearlier historians; indeed, George Bancroft made it a matter of actualpride that the beginning of the American annals was bare and literal. Butin truth no national history has been less prosaic as to its earliertraditions, because every visitor had to cross the sea to reach it, andthe sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of itsstorms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreordainedland of romance.
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