CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THE WANDERINGS

THE FIRST EPISODE How They blinded the Son of Poseidon

THE SECOND EPISODE The Adventure of the Palace in the Wood

THE THIRD EPISODE How Ulysses walked in Hell, and of the Adventure of the Sirens and Scylla

THE FOURTH EPISODE How Ulysses lost his Merry Men and came A Waif to Calypso with the Shining Hair

THE LAST EPISODE How the King came Home again after the Long Years

A NOTE ON HOMER AND ULYSSES

An Old Story Retold by
C. RANGER-GULL
AUTHOR OF
“THE HYPOCRITE,” “FROM THE BOOK BEAUTIFUL,”
“BACK TO LILAC LAND,” ETC.

Illustrated
BY
W. G. MEIN

London
GREENING and COMPANY, Ltd.
20 CECIL COURT, CHARING CROSS ROAD
1902

TO

HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE

IN APPRECIATION OF HIS SCHOLARSHIP
IN ADMIRATION OF HIS ART
TO ONE OF THE FEW GREAT ARTISTS
WHO HAS NEVER BEEN UNTRUE
TO THE HIGHEST IDEALS OF HIS CALLING
AND IN SPECIAL MEMORY
OF THE FIRST NIGHT OF “HAMLET”
AT MANCHESTER