Scylla or Charybdis? A Novel (Appletons' Town and Country Library, No. 177

272 pp. 12 pages of publisher ads follow text. In classical mythology, Scylla was a horrible six-headed monster who lived on a rock on one side of a narrow strait. Charybdis was a whirlpool on the other side. When ships passed close to Scylla's rock in order to avoid Charybdis, she would seize and devour their sailors.