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A number of the page numbers in the index are incorrect, generallyonly being out by a single page; as such, they have been preservedas printed. The transcriber has, as far as possible, linked to thecorrect place in the text. Where the reference could not be determined,the numbers remain unlinked.
A COMPENDIUM
OF
Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese,
Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian
Mythologies,
IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARD AUTHORITIES.
ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS ANDACADEMIES.
BY
C. A. WHITE.
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.
NEW YORK.
A. C. ARMSTRONG & SON,
714 Broadway.
1889.
Entered According to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by
W. J. WIDDLETON,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1882, by W. C. Bush.
The Student’s Mythology has been in usein manuscript for nearly three years in oneof our largest academies, where it has beenreceived with much favor by both teachersand pupils. Even in that form, which subjectedthem to the inconvenience of longdictations, it was preferred to any of theordinary text-books on the subject. Copieswere sought for the use of other institutions,and the principals of the academy referred to,consented that the work should be preparedfor the press.
In carrying out the plan, the subject matterwas carefully classified, and such additionsmade as were deemed necessary for completeness.As a farther precaution, thewhole was submitted to the revision of aneminent classical scholar.
[Pg 2]Mythology is a subject which needs to betreated with peculiar care; and text-booksare often objected to by parents and teachersas still retaining the taint of pagan corruption,and presenting dangerous images to theyouthful mind. It was this difficulty whichfirst led to the preparation of the presentwork. The Student’s Mythology lays noclaim to any superiority in point of erudition;the text-books already before the publicleave nothing to be desired in this particular.It is a practical work, prepared by anexperienced teacher, and already submittedto the decisive test of the schoolroom. It isnot designed for young persons who arealready advanced in classical studies, butrather for pupils who have not yet entered,or who, like the greater number of thoseattending our female academies, are notlikely ever to enter upon any regular classicalcourse. For the former, it may prove auseful introduction to these studies, while thelatter will find in the work the most importantand pleasing features of mythology.
With such views, it has been consideredmost judicious to present the classic fables intheir simplest, which is also their most poetic[...