To enrich the background of the mature render, Alice Hazeltine has gathered together thirty historic takes by a score of authors, which depict the adventures of the epic hero as he has come down from many lands through history. El Cid, Rama, Aachilles, King Arthur, Odysous, Siegfried. Frithiof are a mere few of the heroes whose plights and deeds dramatically unfold in a rich compendium, sumptuously illustrated by Gordon Laite.