The Collected Works of Jennie Hall E-Book

Jennie Hall

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 303

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Viking Tales • WolfvilleAlfred Henry Lewis • Buried Cities, Volume: Pompeii • Buried Cities, Volume: Olympia • Buried Cities, Volume: Mycenae • The Baby • The Tooth Thrall • Olaf's Farm • Olaf's Fight with Havard • Foes'-fear • Harald is King • Harald's Battle • Gyda's Saucy Message • The Sea Fight • King Harald's Wedding • King Harald Goes West-Over-Seas • PART II. WEST-OVER-SEASHomes in Iceland • Eric the Red • Leif and His New Land • Wineland the Good • Descriptive Notes • Suggestions to Teachers • A Reading List • etc.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

BURIED CITIES

FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS

POMPEII

THE GREEK SLAVE AND THE LITTLE ROMAN BOY

VESUVIUS

POMPEII TO-DAY

PICTURES OF POMPEII

A ROMAN BOY.

THE CITY OF NAPLES, WITH MOUNT VESUVIUS ACROSS THE BAY.

VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION, FROM AN AIRPLANE.

POMPEII FROM AN AIRPLANE.

THE STABIAN GATE.

IN THE STREET OF TOMBS.

THE AMPHITHEATER.

RUINS OF THE GREAT STABIAN BATHS.

THE RUINED TEMPLE OF APOLLO.

THE SCHOOL OF THE GLADIATORS.

THE SMALLER THEATER.

A SACRIFICE.

A SCENE IN THE FORUM.

IVORY HAIRPINS.

APPLIANCES FOR THE BATH.

PERISTYLE OF THE HOUSE OF THE VETTII.

LADY PLAYING A HARP.

KITCHEN OF THE HOUSE OF THE VETTII.

KITCHEN UTENSILS.

CENTAUR CUP.

THE HOUSE OF THE TRAGIC POET (restored).

THE HOUSE OF THE TRAGIC POET (as it looks to-day).

MOSAIC OF WATCH DOG.

THE HOUSE OF DIOMEDE.

RUINS OF A BAKERY, WITH MILLSTONES.

SECTION OF A MILL.

PORTRAIT OF LUCIUS CÆCILIUS JUCUNDUS.

BRONZE CANDLEHOLDER.

THE DANCING FAUN.

HERMES IN REPOSE.

THE ARCH OF NERO.

OLYMPIA

TWO WINNERS OF CROWNS

HOW A CITY WAS LOST

PICTURES OF OLYMPIA

ENTRANCE TO STADION.

GYMNASIUM.

BOYS IN GYMNASIUM.

THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS.

THE LABORS OF HERAKLES.

THE STATUE OF VICTORY.

THE TEMPLE OF HERA.

HEAD OF AN ATHLETE.

A GREEK HORSEMAN.

MYCENÆ

HOW A LOST CITY WAS FOUND

PICTURES OF MYCENAE

THE CIRCLE OF ROYAL TOMBS.

DR. AND MRS. SCHLIEMANN AT WORK.

THE GATE OF LIONS.

INSIDE THE TREASURY OF ATREUS.

THE INTERIOR OF THE PALACE.

GOLD MASK.

A COW'S HEAD OF SILVER.

THE WARRIOR VASE.

BRONZE HELMETS.

GEM FROM MYCENAE.

BRONZE DAGGERS.

CARVED IVORY HEAD.

BRONZE BROOCHES.

ONE OF THE CUPS FOUND AT VAPHIO.

PLATES.

GOLD ORNAMENT.

MYCENAE IN THE DISTANCE.

VIKING TALES

PART I

IN NORWAY

The Baby

The Tooth Thrall

Olaf's Farm

Olaf's Fight With Havard

Foes'-fear

Harald is King

Harald's Battle

Gyda's Saucy Message

The Sea Fight

King Harald's Wedding

King Harald Goes West-Over-Seas

PART II

WEST-OVER-SEAS

Homes in Iceland

Eric the Red

Leif and His New Land

Wineland the Good

GEOGRAPHY

CUSTOMS

MYTHOLOGY

INCIDENTS

CREDIBILITY OF STORY

OTHER SAGAS EASILY ACCESSIBLE

A GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION

First Edition

BURIED CITIES

BY

JENNIE HALL

The publishers are grateful to the estate of Miss Jennie Hall and to her many friends for assistance in planning the publication of this book. Especial thanks are due to Miss Nell C. Curtis of the Lincoln School, New York City, for helping to finish Miss Hall's work of choosing the pictures, and to Miss Irene I. Cleaves of the Francis Parker School, Chicago, who wrote the captions. It was Miss Katharine Taylor, now of the Shady Hill School, Cambridge, who brought these stories to our attention.

FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS

Do you like to dig for hidden treasure? Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery? I knew a boy who was digging a cave in a sandy place, and he found an Indian grave. With his own hands he uncovered the bones and skull of some brave warrior. That brown skull was more precious to him than a mint of money. Another boy I knew was making a cave of his own. Suddenly he dug into an older one made years before. He crawled into it with a leaping heart and began to explore. He found an old carpet and a bit of burned candle. They proved that some one had lived there. What kind of a man had he been and what kind of life had he lived—black or white or red, robber or beggar or adventurer? Some of us were walking in the woods one day when we saw a bone sticking out of the ground. Luckily we had a spade, and we set to work digging. Not one moment was the tool idle. First one bone and then another came to light and among them a perfect horse's skull. We felt as though we had rescued Captain Kidd's treasure, and we went home draped in bones.