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" Absolutely the best set of all the history readers that have hitherto 

 been published."— TAe Guardian. 



THE STORY OF THE WORLD. 



FOR THB CHILDREN OP THE BRITISH EMPIRE. (In Five Books.) 



ByM. B. SYNQE. 



with Coloured Frontispieces and numerous Illustrations by 

 B. M. Synge, A.R.B., and Maps. 



BOOK I. ON THE SHORES OF THE GREAT SEA. Is. 4d. 

 Colonial Edition, Is. 6d. 



The Home of Abraham — Into Africa- 

 Joseph in Egypt— The Children of Israel — 

 The First Merchant Fleet — Hiram, King of 

 Tyre- King Solomon's Fleet— The Story of 

 Carthage— Tile Story of the Argonauts— The 

 Siege of Troy — The Adventures of Ulysses — 

 The Dawn of History— The Fall of Tjre- 

 The Rise of Carthage — Hanno's Adventures 

 — The Battle of Marathon— King Ahasuems 

 — How Leonidas kept the Pass — Some 



Greek Colonies— Athens — The Death of 

 Socrates— The Story of Romnlus and Remus 

 — HowHoratius kept the Bridge — Coriolanus 

 — Alexander the Great — King of Macedonia 

 — The Conquest of India — Alexander's 

 City — The Roman Fleet — The Adventures of 

 Hannibal — The End of Carthage- The 

 Triumph of Rome — Julius CaBsar — The 

 Flight of Pompey— The Death of Caesar. 



BOOK II. THE DISCOVERT OF NEW WORLDS. Is. 6d. 



The Roman World— The Tragedy of Nero— 

 The Great Fire in Rome— The Destruction 

 of Pompeii— Marcus Aurelius— Christians to 

 the Lions— A New Rome — The Armies of 

 the North— King Arthur and his Knights— 

 How the Northmen conquered England- 

 The First Crusade — Frederick Barbarossa- 

 The Third Crusade— The Days of Chivalry 

 — Queen of the Adriatic — The Story of 

 Marco Polo — Dante's Great Poem— The 



Maid of Orleans — Prince Henry, the Sailor- 

 The Invention of Printing — Vasco da Gama's 

 Great Voyage — Golden Goa — Christopher 

 Columbus — The Last of the Moors — Dis- 

 covery of the New World— Columbus in 

 Chains — Discovery of the Pacific — Magel- 

 lan's Straits — Montezuma — Siege and Fall of 

 Mexico — Conquest of Peru — A Great 

 Awakening. 



BOOK III. THE AWAKENING OF EUROPE. Is. 6d. 

 Colonial Edition, Is. 9d. 



Story of the Netherlands— The Story of 

 Martin Luther— The Massacre of St Bar- 

 tholomew—The Siege of Leyden— William 

 the Silent — Drake's Voyage round the 

 World— The Great Armada— Virginia— Story 

 of the Revenge— Sir Walter Raleigh— The 

 * Fairy Queen ' — First Voyage of the East 

 India Company — Henry Hudson — Captain 

 John Smith — The Founding of Quebec— 

 The Pilgrim Fathers- Thirty Years of War 

 —The Dnteh at Sea- Van Biebeek's Colony 



— Oliver Cromwell — Two Famous Admirals 

 — De Ruyter — The Founder of Pennsyl- 

 vania — The ' Pilgrim's Progress ' — William' 

 Invitation — The Struggle in Ireland— The 

 Siege of Vienna by the Turks — The Story of 

 the Huguenots — The Battle of Blenheim — 

 How Peter the Great learned Shipbuilding 

 —Charles XII. of Sweden— The Boyhood of 

 Frederick the Great — Anson's Voyage round 

 the World— Maria Theresa- The Story of 

 Scotland. 



