RACHEL AND THE SEVEN WONDERS [Illustration: THE STATUE IN THE HARBOUR] [Illustration: RACHEL AND THE SEVEN WONDERS BY NETTA SYRETT ILLUSTRATED BY JOYCE MERCER] FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO ROBIN CONTENTS _Page_ FIRST WONDER THE GREAT PYRAMID 13 SECOND WONDER THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON 33 THIRD WONDER THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES 55 FOURTH WONDER THE TEMPLE OF DIANA 79 FIFTH WONDER THE MAUSOLEUM OF ARTEMISIA 109 SIXTH WONDER THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA 129 SEVENTH WONDER THE STATUE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS 146 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS The Statue in the Harbour (_Colour_) _Frontispiece_. The Rosetta Stone (_Colour_) _To face page_ 16 Pharaoh in his Chariot " " 22 ‘It will last for ever’ " " 74 A little boy walked in front of the procession (_Colour_) " " 88 ‘This is Diana of the Ephesians’ " " 100 They had a glimpse of the City " " 114 The Pharos Lighthouse (_Colour_) " " 136 The Olympic Games (_Colour_) " " 160 FIRST WONDER [Illustration: THE GREAT PYRAMID] Rachel was a very unhappy little girl as she sat in an omnibus with Miss Moore, on her way to the British Museum. She didn’t want to go to the British Museum. She didn’t want to be in London at all. She longed desperately to be back in her country home with her father and mother—now, alas! far away in Egypt. Everything as Rachel said had happened so suddenly. Certainly her mother had been ill some time, but it was all at once decided that the only possible place to send her little daughter in a hurry, was to Aunt Hester, in London. Aunt Hester, who was her father’s eldest sister, and in the eyes of Rachel, at least, awfully old, was quite kind, but also, as she admitted, quite unused to children. The first thing she did therefore, was to engage a governess to look after her niece for the seven weeks she would have to remain with her. Miss Moore, a rather uninteresting, middle-aged lady, had duly arrived the previous evening, and at breakfast time Aunt Hester had suggested the British Museum as a suitable place to which Rachel might be conducted.