Consequently, while the obligation to the Age of Fable is acknowledged in full, a new title has been selected for this volume. […] XXV-XXX., containing paraphrases of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and of certain Norse lays, are a revision of corresponding chapters in the Age of Fable. […] The Fable and the Myth. — Careful discrimination must be made between the fable and the myth. A fable is a story, like that of King Log, or the Fox and the Grapes, in which characters and plot, neither pretending to reality nor demanding credence, are fabricated confessedly as the vehicle of moral or didactic instruction. […] Fables are vessels made to order into which a lesson may be poured.