Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Childhood of Religions: Embracing a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends
Its clear presentment within a moderate compass somevifhat difficult, but I have been at pains to select the essential portions, and, in View of those to whom the body of the work is addressed, to choose the simplest language which the several subjects permit. If the style is thus more fami liar than dignified, I hope it may with greater success attract the ear of the youthful reader.
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