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A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS
ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING
_An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_ CHARLES F. HORNE
_Dawn of Civilization_ (_B.C. 5867_) G.C.C. MASPERO
_Compilation of the Earliest Code_ (_B.C. 2250_) HAMMURABI
_Theseus Founds Athens_ (_B.C. 1235_) PLUTARCH
_The Formation of the Castes in India_ (_B.C. 1200_) GUSTAVE LE BON W.W. HUNTER
_Fall of Troy_ (_B.C. 1184_) GEORGE GROTE
_Accession of Solomon_ _Building of the Temple at Jerusalem_ (_B.C. 1017_) HENRY HART MILMAN
_Rise and Fall of Assyria_ _Destruction of Nineveh_ (_B.C. 789_) F. LENORMANT AND E. CHEVALLIER
_The Foundation of Rome_ (_B.C. 753_) BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
_Prince Jimmu Founds Japan's Capital_ (_B.C. 660_) SIR EDWARD REED THE "NEHONGI"
_The Foundation of Buddhism_ (_B.C. 623_) THOMAS W. RHYS-DAVIDS
_Pythian Games at Delphi_ (_B.C. 585_) GEORGE GROTE
_Solon's Early Greek Legislation_ (_B.C. 594_) GEORGE GROTE
_Conquests of Cyrus the Great_ (_B.C. 550_) GEORGE GROTE
_Rise of Confucius, the Chinese Sage_ (_B.C. 550_) R.K. DOUGLAS
_Rome Established as a Republic_ _Institution of Tribunes_ (_B.C. 510-494_) HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL
_The Battle of Marathon_ (_B.C. 490_) SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD CREASY
_Invasion of Greece by Persians under Xerxes_ _Defence of Thermopylæ_ (_B.C. 480_) HERODOTUS
_Universal Chronology_ (_B.C. 5867-451_) JOHN RUDD
_Sphinx, with Great and Second Pyramids of Gizeh_ (_page 12_) Frontispiece From an original photograph.
_The Rosetta Stone, and Description_ Facsimile of original in the British Museum.
_The Sabine Women_--_now mothers_--_suing for peace between the combatants_ (_their Roman husbands and their Sabine relatives_) Painting by Jacques L. David.