{"product_id":"the-strange-story-book-gb-37396","title":"The Strange Story Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Strange Story Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTO THE CHILDREN\nAnd now the time has come to say good-bye; and good-byes\r\nare always so sad that it is much better when we do not\r\nknow that we have got to say them. It is so long since\r\nBeauty and the Beast and Cinderella and Little Red Riding\r\nHood came out to greet you in the 'Blue Fairy Book,'\r\nthat some of you who wore pigtails or sailor suits in those\r\ndays have little boys and girls of your own to read the\r\nstories to now, and a few may even have little baby grandchildren.\r\nSince the first giants and enchanted princes and\r\nill-treated step-daughters made friends with you, a whole\r\nnew world of wheels and wings and sharp-voiced bells has\r\nbeen thrown open, and children have toy motors and\r\naeroplanes which take up all their thoughts and time. You\r\nmay see them in the street bending over pictures of the\r\nlast machine which has won a prize of a thousand pounds,\r\nand picturing to themselves the day when they shall invent\r\nsomething finer still, that will fly higher and sail faster than\r\nany of those which have gone before it.\nNow as this is the very last book of all this series that\r\nbegan in the long long ago, perhaps you may like to hear\r\nsomething of the man who thought over every one of the\r\ntwenty-five, for fear lest a story should creep in which he\r\ndid not wish his little boys and girls to read. He was born\r\nwhen nobody thought of travelling in anything but a traina\r\nvery slow oneor a steamer. It took a great deal of\r\npersuasion to induce him later to get into a motor and he had\r\nnot the slightest desire to go up in an aeroplaneor to possess[viii]\r\na telephone. Somebody once told him of a little boy who,\r\nafter giving a thrilling account at luncheon of how Randolph\r\nhad taken Edinburgh Castle, had expressed a desire to go\r\nout and see the Museum; 'I like old things better than new,'\r\nsaid the child! 'I wish I knew that little boy,' observed\r\nthe man. 'He would just suit me.' And that was true,\r\nfor he too loved great deeds of battle and adventure as well\r\nas the curious carved and painted fragments guarded in\r\nmuseums which show that the lives described by Homer\r\nand the other old poets were not tales made up by them\r\nto amuse tired crowds gathered round a hall fire, but were\r\nrealreal as our lives now, and much more beautiful and\r\nsplendid. Very proud he was one day when he bought,\r\nin a little shop on the way to Kensington Gardens, a small\r\nobject about an inch high which to his mind exactly answered\r\nto the description of the lion-gate of Mycen, only that now\r\nthe lions have lost their heads, whereas in the plaster copy from\r\nthe shop they still had eyes to look at you and mouths to\r\neat you. His friends were all sent for to give their opinion on\r\nthis wonderful discovery, but no two thought alike about it.\r\nOne declared it dated from the time of Solomon or of Homer\r\nhimself, and of course it would have been delightful to\r\nbelieve that! but then somebody else was quite certain\r\nit was no more than ten years old, while the rest made\r\ndifferent guesses. To this day the question is undecided,\r\nand very likely always will be.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 37396 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lang, Mrs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 13, 2011 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Lang, Mrs. \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43220511817885,"sku":"gb-37396-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/37396.jpg?v=1671553710","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-strange-story-book-gb-37396","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}