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11. (1895) The youth’s dictionary of mythology for boys and girls

What is virtue with one is vice with the other, as beauty and ugliness of form or feature, being relative terms, are opposites with many different peoples. […] “He dug a hole, and in it whispering said, What monstrous ears sprout from King Midas’ head.” […]What chain can hold this varying Proteus fast?” […] She lived in the country near Thebes, and proposed to every passer-by the following enigma: “What animal is that which walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening.”

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