title: Myths
author: Alexander Eliot
description: Alexander Eliot retells the age-old myths with a directness and vividness that retain their full power. Here in words and images myths from around the world are woven together into a brilliant tapestry of gods and heroes, monsters and mythic beasts, spectacular and ignominious exploits.
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  # Impressions of Theophrastus Such
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Eliot
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  I. LOOKING INWARD.
  
  
  II. LOOKING BACKWARD.
  
  
  III. HOW WE ENCOURAGE RESEARCH.
  
  
  IV. A MAN SURPRISED AT HIS ORIGINALITY.
  
  
  V. A TOO DEFERENTIAL MAN.
  
  
  VI. ONLY TEMPER.
  
  
  VII. A POLITICAL MOLECULE.
  
  
  VIII. THE WATCH-DOG OF KNOWLEDGE
  
  
  IX. A HALF-BREED
  
  
  X. DEBASING THE MORAL CURRENCY.
  
  
  XI. THE WASP CREDITED WITH THE HONEYCOMB
  
  
  XII. “SO YOUNG!”
  
  
  XIII. HOW WE COME TO GIVE OURSELVES FALSE
  
  
  TESTIMONIALS, AND BELIEVE IN THEM.
  
  
  XIV. THE TOO READY WRITER
  
  
  XV. DISEASES OF SMALL AUTHORSHIP
  
  
  XVI. MORAL SWINDLERS.
  
  
  XVII. SHADOWS OF THE COMING RACE.
  
  
  XVIII. THE MODERN HEP! HEP! HEP!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH
  
  
  GEORGE ELIOT
  
  
  Second Edition
  
  
  William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London MDCCCLXXIX
  
  
  
  
  
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