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HEROES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
HEROES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE The editor and publishers wish to extend their thanks and
acknowledgment to the firms who have kindly permitted the use of
material in this volume:
To The Macmillan Co. for selections from "Heroes of Chivalry and
Romance" "Stories of Charlemagne and the Peers of France" "Old
English History" "The Crusaders" "Father Damien: A Journey from
Cashmere to His Home in Hawaii"; to Thomas Nelson & Son for material
from "Martyrs and Saints of the First Twelve Centuries"; to J. M.
Dent & Co. for selections from "Stories from Le Morte d'Arthur and
The Mabinogion" in the Temple Classics for Young People; to E. P.
Dutton & Co. for material from "Chronicle of the Cid"; to Longmans
Green & Co. for material from "The Book of Romance"; to John C.
Winston Co. for material from "Stories from History"; to Lothrop
Lee & Shepard for material from "The True Story of Abraham Lincoln."
CONTENTS TO "HEROES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW"
CHAPTER
INTRODUCTION
I. PERSEUS. Adapted from "The Heroes" by Charles Kingsley
II. HERCULES. By Kate Stephens
III. DANIEL. From Book of Daniel Chapter vi. Verses 1 to 24
IV. DAVID. From I. Book of Samuel Chapter xvii
V. ST. GEORGE. Adapted from "Martyrs and Saints of the First
Twelve Centuries" by Mrs. E. Rundle Charles
VI. KING ARTHUR. Adapted from "Stories from Le Morte d'Arthur and
the Mabinogion" by Beatrice Clay
VII. SIR GALAHAD. Adapted from "Stories from Le Morte d'Arthur and
the Mabinogion" by Beatrice Clay; followed by
"Sir Galahad" by Alfred Tennyson
VIII. SIEGFRIED. Adapted from "Heroes of Chivalry and Romance" by
A. J. Church
IX. ROLAND. Adapted from "Stories of Charlemagne and the Peers of
France" by A. J. Church
X. KING ALFRED. Adapted from "Old English History" by E. A.
Freeman
XI. THE CID. Adapted from "Chronicle of the Cid" from the Spanish
by Robert Southey
XII. ROBIN HOOD. Adapted from "Book of Romance" edited by Andrew
Lang; including a version of the popular ballad
"Robin Hood and the Butcher"
XIII. RICHARD THE LION-HEARTED. Adapted from "The Crusaders" by A.
J. Church
XIV. SAINT Louis. Adapted from "The Crusaders" by A. J. Church
XV. WILLIAM TELL. Adapted from "Stories from History" by Agnes
Strickland
XVI. ROBERT BRUCE. Adapted from "Tales of a Grandfather from
Scottish History" by Sir Walter Scott
XVII. GEORGE WASHINGTON. Adapted from "Recollections and Private
Memoirs of Washington" by G. W. Parke Custis
XVIII. ROBERT E. LEE. From "Letters and Recollections of General
Lee" by Captain Robert E. Lee
XIX. ABRAHAM: LINCOLN. Adapted from "The True Story of Abraham
Lincoln" by Elbridge S. Brooks
XX. FATHER DAMIEN. Adapted from "Father Damien: A Journey from
Cashmere to His Home in Hawaii" by Edward
Clifford
INTRODUCTION TO "HEROES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW"
If there had been no real heroes there would have been created
imaginary ones for men cannot live without them. The hero is just
as necessary as the farmer the sailor the carpenter and the
doctor; society could not get on without him. There have been a
great many different kinds of heroes for in every age and among
every people the hero has stood for the qualities that were most
admired and sought after by the bravest and best; and all ages and
peoples have imagined or produced heroes as inevitably as they have
made ploughs for turning the soil or ships for getting through the
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