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"I was but naming the name of a wise man--of one who told me a great truth--a truth that is of greater worth than all earthly riches, than all our kingly glory."
And Croesus related to Cyrus his conversation with Solon. The story touched the heart of the Emperor, for he bethought him that he too was but a man, that he too knew not what Fate might have in store for him.
So in the end he had mercy upon Croesus, and became his friend.
SECTION VI
MYTHS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. GENERAL HANDBOOKS
Bulfinch, Thomas, _Mythology: The Age of Fable_.
Gayley, Charles Mills, _Cla.s.sic Myths in English Literature and in Art_.
II. GREEK AND ROMAN
Baker, Emilie Kip, _Stories of Old Greece and Rome_.
Baldwin, James, _Old Greek Stories_.
Francillon, R. E., _G.o.ds and Heroes, or the Kingdom of Jupiter_.
Guerber, H. A., _Myths of Greece and Rome_.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, _A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls_.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, _Tanglewood Tales: A Second Wonder-Book_.
Kingsley, Charles, _Greek Heroes_.
Kupfer, Grace H., _Stories of Long Ago_.
Peabody, Josephine P., _Old Greek Folk Stories_.
III. NORTHERN MYTHS
Anderson, R. B., _Norse Mythology, or The Religion of Our Forefathers_.
Baker, Emilie Kip, _Stories of Northern Myths_.
Boult, Katherine F., _Heroes of the Northland_.
Brown, Abbie Farwell, _In the Days of the Giants_.
Colum, Padraic, _The Children of Odin_.
Guerber, H. A., _Myths of Northern Lands_.
Keary, Anna and Eliza, _The Heroes of Asgard_.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, _Norse Stories_.
Wilmot-Buxton, E. M., _Stories of Norse Heroes_.
IV. NATURE MYTHS ("POURQUOI" STORIES)
Cook, Flora J., _Nature Myths_.
Holbrook, Florence, _The Book of Nature Myths_.
V. CRITICAL WORKS
c.o.x, Sir G. W., _Mythology of the Aryan Nations_. 2 vols.
Fiske, John, _Myths and Myth-Makers_.
Frazer, J. G., _The Golden Bough_. 12 vols.
Hartland, E. S., _The Legend of Perseus_. 3 vols.
Lang, Andrew, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_. 2 vols.
Muller, Max, _Contributions to the Science of Mythology_.
Ruskin, John, _Athena, Queen of the Air_.
Spencer, Herbert, _Principles of Sociology_.
Tylor, E. B., _Primitive Culture_. 2 vols.
SECTION VI. MYTHS