The Listening Zone

Legendary tales of the lives of famous people and historic episodes.

Of these fifty stories, some have historical value, some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths, and others are intended only to amuse. A few of these stories are from very ancient sources and are current in the literature of many lands, while many of more recent origin have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people. Nearly all are frequently alluded to in poetry and prose.

Contents:

• King Alfred and the Cakes
• King Alfred and the Beggar
• King Canute on the Seashore
• The Sons of William the Conqueror
• The White Ship
• King John and the Abbot
• A Story of Robin Hood
• Bruce and the Spider
• The Black Douglas
• Three Men of Gotham
• Other Wise Men of Gotham
• The Miller of the Dee
• Sir Philip Sidney
• The Ungrateful Soldier
• Sir Humphrey Gilbert
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Pocahontas
• George Washington and his Hatchet
• Grace Darling
• The Story of William Tell
• Arnold Winkelried
• The Bell of Atri
• How Napoleon crossed the Alps
• The Story of Cincinnatus
• The Story of Regulus
• Cornelia's Jewels
• Androcles and the Lion
• Horatius at the Bridge
• Julius Caesar
• The Sword of Damocles
• Damon and Pythias
• A Laconic Answer
• The Ungrateful Guest
• Alexander and Bucephalus
• Diogenes the Wise Man
• The Brave Three Hundred
• Socrates and his House
• The King and his Hawk
• Doctor Goldsmith
• The Kingdoms
• The Barmecide Feast
• The Endless Tale
• The Blind Men and the Elephant
• Maximilian and the Goose Boy
• The Inchcape Rock
• Whittington and his Cat
• Casabianca
• Antonio Canova
• Picciola
• Mignon