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  Edition d'Elite

  Historical Tales

  The Romance of Reality

  By

  CHARLES MORRIS

  _Author of "Half-Hours with the Best American Authors," "Tales from the
  Dramatists," etc._

  IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES

  Volume X

  Greek

  J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

  PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON




  Copyright, 1896, by J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
  Copyright, 1904, by J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
  Copyright, 1908, by J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.




CONTENTS.

                                          PAGE

  HOW TROY WAS TAKEN                         7

  THE VOYAGE OF THE ARGONAUTS               28

  THESEUS AND ARIADNE                       33

  THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES                  41

  LYCURGUS AND THE SPARTAN LAWS             50

  ARISTOMENES, THE HERO OF MESSENIA         60

  SOLON, THE LAW-GIVER OF ATHENS            67

  THE FOR