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Grateful acknowledgment is made by the author for the numerous
expressions of interest that came to him from his girl-readers as
the papers now gathered into book-form appeared from time to time
in the pages of St. Nicholas. The approval of those for whom one
studies and labors is the pleasantest and most enduring return.
CONTENTS
ZENOBIA OF PALMYRA: THE GIRL OF THE SYRIAN DESERT
HELENA OF BRITAIN: THE GIRL OF THE ESSEX FELLS
PULCHERIA OF CONSTANTINOPLE: THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN HORN
CLOTILDA OF BURGUNDY: THE GIRL OF THE FRENCH VINEYARDS
WOO OF HWANG-HO: THE GIRL OF THE YELLOW RIVER
EDITH OF SCOTLAND: THE GIRL OF THE NORTHERN ABBEY
JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND: THE GIRL OF THE LAND OF FOGS
CATARINA OF VENICE: THE GIRL OF THE GRAND CANAL
THERESA OF AVILA: THE GIRL OF THE SPANISH SIERRAS
ELIZABETH OF TUDOR: THE GIRL OF THE HERTFORD MANOR
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN: THE GIRL OF THE NORTHERN FIORDS
MA-TA-OKA OF POW-HA-TAN: THE GIRL OF THE VIRGINIA FORESTS
ZENOBIA OF PALMYRA:
THE GIRL OF THE SYRIAN DESERT.
[Afterward known as "Zenobia Augusta, Queen of the East."] A.D.
250.
MANY and many miles and many days' journey toward the rising sun,
over seas and mountains and deserts,--farther to the east than
Rome, or Constantinople, or even Jerusalem and old
Damascus,--stand the ruins of a once mighty city, scattered over
a mountain-walled oasis of the great Syrian desert, thirteen
hundred feet above the sea, and just across the northern border
of Arabia.
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