TOLD TO THE CHILDREN SERIES

Edited by Louey Chisholm

THE FAERIE QUEEN

I should like the crystal ball to shew me what my husband will be like (page 33)

STORIES FROM
The Faerie Queen

TOLD TO THE CHILDREN BY
JEANIE LANG

WITH PICTURES BY
ROSE LE QUESNE

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK, LTD.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

TO
DIANA

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.

ABOUT THE FAERIE QUEEN

More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a poet namedEdmund Spenser. He was brave and true and gentle, and he loved all thatwas beautiful and good.

Edmund Spenser wrote many poems, and the most beautiful of all is the onecalled ‘The Faerie Queen.’ He loved so dearly all things that arebeautiful and all things that are good, that his eyes could see Fairylandmore clearly than the eyes of other men ever could.

There are many, many stories in ‘The Faerie Queen,’ and out of them all Ihave told you only eight. Some day you will read the others for yourself.

In this little book Miss Rose Le Quesne has made one pretty picture foreach story. But when you are old enough to read for yourself ‘The FaerieQueen’ that Edmund Spenser wrote, you will find that there is a picture onevery page.

JEANIE LANG.

LIST OF STORIES

LIST OF PICTURES