The Kalevipoeg, the Estonian national epic, retold in English with other Baltic material - the giant son of Kalev, the smith, the journey to the world's end. Kirby was an entomologist at the British Museum who translated it for pleasure. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates reproducing paintings by Kristjan Raud, Oskar Kallis, Välko Tuul, Karl von Kügelgen and others, dating from 1830 to 1928.
