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THE ANCIENT WORLD. 



Hn IfDistorical SF?etcb* 



By C. DU PONTET, M.A., 



Assistant Master at Harrow School. 



With Maps. Crown Svo. Cloth. 4s. 6d. 



This book will be found useful as an introduction to the study of 

 World History. As the sub-title proclaims, it is a sketch, and its 

 main object is to help the pupil to view ancient history as a whole, 

 to see the various events in their proper perspective, and to 

 comprehend the relations of the different empires to one another, 

 both in point of time and in other respects. It gives a brief survey 

 of ancient history, developing in broad outline the story of the 

 empires of the ancient world from the earliest times to 55 e.g. 



CONTENTS.— The Pyramids— The Euphrates Country— The Age of the 

 Patriarchs — A Philosopher-King— Forgotten Empires — The Ancient East, Far 

 and Near — A New Nation — The Trojan War — The Dorians and the Dawn of 

 Greek History — Westward Ho ! — The Tyrants— The Lawgivers — The Un- 

 changing East — The Persian Wars, Greece saves Europe — The Peloponnesian 

 War— A Golden Age — Alexander — Hannibal — The World finds a Master — The 

 Price of Empire. 



THE LAST CENTURY IN EUROPE, 

 1814 — 1910. 



By C. E. M. HAWKESWORTH, 



Assistant Master at Rugby School. 



One Volume. Crown Svo. 5s. net. 



In this book an attempt is made to furnish a clear, concise, and 

 continuous narrative of European history from 1814 down to 1910, 

 the domestic concerns of England being deliberately excluded. 

 Each stage in the development of an individual nation is treated as a 

 continuous and uninterrupted whole, but every effort is made to keep 

 it closely connected with contemporary movements elsewhere. 

 Secondary figures and secondary events have been carefully elimin- 

 ated, while every effort has been made to make the principal figures 

 stand out as living human agents, and a good deal of attention has 

 been paid to the elucidation of character and motive. The military 

 history of the period has not been neglected, in the hope that it will 

 add the elements of colour and action to the story. The prominence 

 assumed by colonial questions from 1878 onwards makes the later 

 part of the book inevitably a survey of world politics, and not 

 merely an account of events strictly European, and the attempt has 

 been made to give unity and interest to this section by viewing the 

 progress of events from the standpoint of British influence and 

 policy. 



