fiction for the attainment of a truer historic sense; while, taken only as supplement to more strictly Academic reading, such a work may prove to have its uses. Considerable discrimination is required—as I have already hinted—in the choice of suitable books, and, as a help in this direction, I have made out (vide "Suggested courses of Reading" at the end of this volume) two special lists for Boys and Girls respectively, which will, I trust, be found useful. If, besides being of help to teachers, my recommendations should lead in any degree to further appreciation of the great masters of Romance, the labour (by no means inconsiderable) expended on this little compilation will be amply rewarded.

J. N.

January, 1902.

NOTE—the order in which the books are placed is, on the whole, according to the periods dealt with; occasionally the grouping decided on has prevented absolute correctness in this respect.

PRE-CHRISTIAN ERA.

SARCHEDON — G. J. Whyte Melville
Ancient Babylon and the Assyrians
W. Thacker & Co., and Ward, Lock, & Co.

UARDA — Georg Ebers (trans.)
Egypt—Rameses Sesostris
Sampson Low & Co.

ZOROASTER — F. Marion Crawford
Zoroaster, the Persian Religious Reformer
Macmillan & Co.

AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS — Georg Ebers (trans.)
Egypt—Amasis and Cambyses, 6th Century B. C.
Sampson Low & Co.

THE FALL OF ATHENS — A. J. Church
Peloponnesian War
Seeley & Co.

A YOUNG MACEDONIAN — A. J. Church
Alexander the Great
Seeley & Co.

SALAMMBO — Gustave Flaubert (trans.)
Rome versus Carthage
G. P. Putnam's Sons, and Grant Richards

THE LION'S BROOD — Duffield Osborne
Rome versus Carthage
W. Heinemann

LORDS OF THE WORLD — A. J. Church
Rome versus Carthage.
Blackie & Son

THE SISTERS — Georg Ehers (trans.)
Egypt—Ptolemy Philometer, and Euergetes
Sampson Low & Co.

THE HAMMER — A. J. Church and R. Seeley
Maccabaean Times
Seeley & Co.

DEBORAH — J. M. Ludlow
Maccabaean Times
J. Nisbet & Co.

HELON'S PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM — F. Strauss (trans.)
Judaism in the Century preceding Christ
J. Mawman, London, 1824

PRUSIAS — Ernst Eckstein (trans.)
The Slave Revolt under Spartacus.
Trubner & Co.

TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO — A. J. Church
Rome—Spartacus and Mithridates
Blackie & Son

WOE TO THE CONQUERED — Alfred Clark
Roman Life, B. C. 73-71
Sampson Low & Co.

A FRIEND OF CAESAR — W. S. Davis
Pompey and Caesar
Macmillan & Co.

CLEOPATRA — Georg Ebers (trans.)
Latter Years of Cleopatra.
Sampson Low & Co.

FIRST CENTURY A.D.

NEAERA — John W. Graham
Rome under Tiberius (A. D. 26)
Macmillan & Co.

PHILOCHRISTUS — Anonymous
Memoirs of a Disciple of Christ
Macmillan & Co.

BEN HUR — Lew Wallace
Rome in the time of Christ
Harper & Brothers, and others

TARRY THOU TILL I COME (Salathiel) — G. Croly
Judaism and Christianity (the early struggle)
Funk & Wagnalls Co.

AS OTHERS SAW HIM — Anonymous
Early Christianity (A. D. 54)
W. Heinemann

BERIC THE BRITON — G. A. Henty
Roman Invasion of Britain
Blackie & Son

ONESIMUS— Anonymous
Memoirs of a Disciple of Paul
Macmillan & Co.

QUO VADIS? — H. Sienkiewicz (trans.)
Rome in the time of Nero
J. M. Dent & Co.

NERO — Ernst Eckstein (trans.)
Rome in the time of Nero
Trubner & Co.

THE BURNING OF ROME — A. J. Church
Rome in the time of Nero
Seeley & Co.

ACTE — Hugh Westbury
Rome in the time of Nero
Bentley

DARKNESS AND DAWN — Dean Farrar
Persecutions under Nero
Longmans, Green, & Co.

THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII — Lytton
Time of Vespasian
Geo. Routledge & Sons

THE GLADIATORS — G. J. Whyte Melville
Fall of Jerusalem
W. Thacker & Co. and Ward, Lock, & Co.

DOMITIA — S. Baring-Gould
Time of Domitian
Methuen & Co.

MASTERS OF THE WORLD — Mary A. M. Hoppus
Time of Domitian
Bentley, 1888

QUINTUS CLAUDIUS — Ernst Eckstein (trans.)
Time of Domitian
W. S. Gottsberger

SECOND CENTURY.

VALERIUS — J. G. Lockhart
Time of Trajan (Rome)
W. Blackwood & Sons

TO THE LIONS — A. J. Church
Christians and the Younger Pliny
Seeley & Co.

ANTINOUS — George Taylor (trans.)
Time of Hadrian
William S. Gottsberger, New York, 1882

MARIUS THE EPICUREAN — W. Pater
Time of Marcus Aurelius
Macmillan & Co.

THIRD CENTURY.

PER ASPERA — Georg Ebers (trans.)
Alexandria in time of Emperor Caracalla
Sampson Low & Co.

PERPETUA — S. Baring-Gould
Nimes—beginning of Third Century
Isbister & Co.

THE CAMP ON THE SEVERN — A. D. Crake
Persecution in Britain
Mowbray & Co.

THE VILLA OF CLAUDIUS — E. L. Cutts
Roman occupation of Britain
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

CALLISTA — J. H. Newman
North Africa persecutions
Longmans, Green, & Co.

*THE EPICUREAN — Thomas Moore
Worship of Isis (Egypt)
Downey & Co.

* This tale, it must be admitted, is given a place mainly on account of its literary interest; as a historical romance it has been very severely criticised.

AURELIAN — W. Ware
Rome—late Third Century
Warne & Co.

THE LAST DAYS AND FALL OF PALMYRA (ZENOBIA) — W. Ware
Zenobia and Longinus
Cassell & Co. ("Red Library," 1890)

FOURTH CENTURY.

HOMO SUM — Georg Ebers (trans.)
Christians in Arabia
Sampson Low & Co.

*OUR FOREFATHERS (Die Ahnen) — Gustav Freytag (trans.)
Germany A. D. 357
Asher & Co., 1873

* The collective title of a series in which the history of a family is made to illustrate successive stages of German Civilisation. The English translation does not extend beyond the first two stories, dealing with the years 357 and 724 respectively; the remaining four stories (published by Hirzel of Leipsic, 1874-80) depict German life in 1226, 1519, 1647, and 1805.

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